Kirsten Scharnberg

The girl lived a dark, grim life. Barwin Husan was poor and sick. She was born under the cruel rule of Saddam Hussein and escaped with her parents and thousands...

In the first case of a videotaped murder confession unraveling in Cook County, a man who was recorded saying he stabbed his mother was freed on Friday after DNA tests...

Even veteran prosecutors were stunned by the case outlined in court Tuesday: A South Side couple were accused of flogging their 12-year-old daughter to death with a 5-foot stretch of...

At 15, Sahara Moorer was tall, smart and beautiful, the daughter of a black father and a white mother. She was also a deeply troubled runaway, haunted by questions of...

The city will seek compensation from the security guard accused of phoning in bogus threats that a plane was about to crash into the Sears Tower in the hours after...

Moments before her ex-husband was sentenced to 30 months' probation as the first "deadbeat dad" tried and convicted as a felon in Cook County, Linda Petrush pulled from her purse...

Throughout her pregnancy, Carrol Stovold had assumed that she would return to work full time after her maternity leave ended. But a few days after Monday's arrival of her first...

The Harvard High School seniors were only 14 years old, gangly and geeky and unenlightened 8th graders, when they filled out "time capsules to be opened on graduation day, in...

In 1905, people were in love with a brand-new word: "Jellybean." In 1951, there was "rock and roll." In 1962, "car pool." In 1963, "Duh." In 1972, "Watergate." In 1981,...