DNA in girl’s slaying disputed
Two of Lake County's top law-enforcement officials insisted Monday that Juan Rivera is guilty of the 1992 sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old baby-sitter in Waukegan despite new DNA...
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4 die while clearing snow; 2 hurt by ice
In the season's first significant snowstorm, which dumped from 1 1/2 to 14 inches of powder across the Chicago area, four men died while trying to clear their driveways. On...
Family of slain women berates suspect in court
Chaos erupted in a Cook County courtroom Tuesday as family members of a Glenview woman and her mother shouted repeatedly at the Chicago musician considered the prime suspect in their...
Former boyfriend quizzed in deaths
As they questioned the former boyfriend of a woman slain in Glenview with her mother, police Tuesday were trying to sort out a turbulent domestic history that triggered repeated encounters...
Hired Truck defendant hurt in fall
A key figure in the federal investigation of the city's Hired Truck Program was critically injured in a fall from a horse this weekend. Nick M. LoCoco possibly suffered brain...
Hired Truck defendant hurt in fall
A key figure in the federal investigation of the city's Hired Truck Program was critically injured in a fall from a horse this weekend. Nick M. LoCoco possibly suffered brain...
CTA mulls fare hike; can you say $2 a ride?
The CTA board on Thursday ordered a review of whether another fare hike should be passed for 2005, raising the possibility that $2 fares will be used to reduce the...
`God … took them home’
The relatives of the 14 people who died when a Chicago-based tour bus veered off the road en route to a weekend getaway in Tunica, Miss., will never get over...
Fleeing car hits, kills boy
A 6-year-old boy was killed and three other children were injured Tuesday night on the city's North Side after they were hit by a stolen sport-utility vehicle driven by suspected...
Bus crash like ‘a bad dream’
As Deonne Maggette boarded a Greyhound bus in Memphis on Monday, she couldn't stem the flood of memories of the last time she climbed the steps of a bus. On...