Michael Martinez

America's oldest national park dispenses its own justice. So prized is the judgeship of Yellowstone that Stephen Cole is only the park's fourth U.S. magistrate judge since 1894. Out West,...

The nation's contaminated spinach crisis touched its first person in Illinois, an elderly woman from north-central LaSalle County who has been hospitalized the past week with kidney failure, state public...

In "the Salad Bowl of America," ripened spinach colors the land a brilliant green, but no one dares touch the floppy leaves for thousands of acres. Farmhands are idled, and...

Days before a massive immigrant rights rally in Grant Park, organizers of the snowballing social movement were racing to firm up plans: They had to consult with Chicago police brass...

Sure, Sunday's Academy Awards are Hollywood's ultimate celebration, but what everyone wants a piece of is the red carpet. That includes the stars and their publicists--who plot their red carpet...

From Chicago to Los Angeles, Americans know Route 66 as a bygone road evoking a simpler era of road trips and song. But Karen Macaulay and Andy Garrett say Europeans...

From the shop where she has worked for three years, Ana Vasquez has enjoyed a small view of the expansive MacArthur Park, but she has never dared to enter it....

A pair of bungalows that provided a tangible link to two of the giants of Chicago architecture, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, thrived for more than a century on...

Gun sales across the South boomed after the first reports surfaced of armed looters roaming the streets of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And images of shots...