Hit-run drivers are hiding something
From the moment the bodies of three children were found along the rural road in Will County, there was this question: Why would the motorist whose truck hit them drive...
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Hit-run drivers are hiding something
From the moment the bodies of three children were found along the rural road in Will County, there was this question: Why would the motorist whose truck hit them drive...
POLICE HOPE CONSCIENCE WILL CATCH HIT-RUN DRIVER
As police work to solve the weekend hit-and-run deaths of three 6th-grade girls along a dark rural road in Will County, they first will turn to modern investigative techniques. A...
DOUBTS GREET CLINTON ANTI-GANG TALK
Simplistic and misguided, at worst. Wholly political and decidedly impractical, at best. President Clinton is talking tough on gangs again this week, and the people who work on the front...
HOUSE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE SPECK PRISON TAPE
Recently released videotape of serial killer Richard Speck allegedly doing drugs, having sex with other inmates and bragging about an easy prison life has infuriated state lawmakers and prompted an...
HEIPLE’S PLEA DEAL MIGHT HELP HIM
In typically blunt fashion, Illinois Supreme Court Justice James D. Heiple told a symposium crowd three years ago in Washington, D.C., that juries were getting "noticeably dumber with each year"...
IN CHICAGO, SHUTDOWN’S IMPACT HAS BEEN MINIMAL
Except for those needing passports and a few hundred angry, unpaid federal workers, the impact of the loss of some government services in the Chicago area has been relatively minimal....
POLICE FIND 8 KIDS IN FILTHY HOME
The boarded-up three-flat on a downtrodden street in Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood appeared to be vacant, decaying and condemned--a fate suffered by so many other buildings in the area....
COPS’ NEIGHBORHOOD FINDS IT ISN’T IMMUNE TO VIOLENCE
Eric Anderson, 15, is a cop's son. The Clearing neighborhood on the Southwest Side is known as a cops' neighborhood because of the clean, bungalow-lined streets and the reputation for...
Judge allows confessions in boy’s fall
A Cook County Juvenile Court judge refused Friday to throw out the confessions of two boys accused of dropping 5-year-old Eric Morse out of a vacant public housing apartment to...