4 drown at Texas water park
Three family members and a little girl from a Chicago church who were in town for a National Baptist Sunday School convention died Wednesday after they were found at the...
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3 kids are abandoned at South Side fire station
Capt. Will Palmer was sitting at his desk just inside the garage door at a Far South Side fire station Tuesday when three children toddled up. "We're here for the...
Soldier had penchant for aiding underdogs
After Sgt. Michael W. Mitchell was killed April 4 when his convoy was attacked outside Baghdad, his family received countless e-mails and notes from friends recounting the time Mitchell stuck...
In Utica, praise carries day
God was not in the fierce winds and rain that devastated their town during a tornado last week, Utica-area residents were told Sunday at a mass conducted from a makeshift...
Despite technology, Utica tornadoes proved a surprise
Armed with advanced radar, satellite images and other high-tech tools of the modern meteorologist, weather forecasters knew conditions were ripe Tuesday for thunderstorms to sweep through Illinois and Indiana. But...
For soldier, joining Army led to `real positive change’
When Pvt. Dustin Kreider dropped his mother off in Pekin, Ill., in November he couldn't help but cry. "I said, `I have to go somewhere I don't want to go,...
Wrigley is tough ticket this season
For the kids at the Neighborhood Boys and Girls Club, a trip to Wrigley Field has been an annual rite of summer, a tradition that stretches back to the club's...
DR. CARL J. VYBORNY, 53
Dr. Carl J. Vyborny was never satisfied with the status quo. As a child he supplemented his education by reading the encyclopedia. After earning a doctorate in medical physics, he...
Chicago loses its 2nd GI to year-old war in Iraq
Sgt. Ivory L. Phipps wanted to talk to his 5-month-old son Sunday when he called from Kuwait. So his fiance put Elijah on the phone and watched their infant son...
WILLIAM R. THEISS, 70
The son of a Lutheran minister who often brought church members home for an evening meal and on New Year's Eve extended that invitation to those without family or homes,...