Rick Hepp

A dispute between a divorced couple turned deadly Sunday when a man shot his ex-wife outside the stately Lake Forest mansion where she lived and worked before killing himself, police...

The calendar may say spring but it still felt like winter Monday with snowflakes in the air and the forecast. "Actually it's not unusual to have snow in April," said...

Six nurses at the University of Chicago Hospitals sued DePaul University this week, contending the school failed to follow through on a promise to help them gain certification as women's...

State lawmakers today introduced legislation that would bar public transportation employees whose driver's licenses have been revoked or suspended from obtaining judicial driving permits to operate buses. Under current Illinois...

After working more than an hour, the Chicago Police Marine Unit this morning rescued a German shepherd wandering on the icy surface of the Chicago River near Navy Pier. The...

After a rough Sunday -- a burst of severe weather and a continuing crew shortage caused by labor disputes -- United Airlines operations at O'Hare International Airport continued to face...

Three boys were critically injured early today when a fire engulfed their West Side home, police said. The boys and as many as eight other people, most of them children,...

Cicero police on Friday afternoon said they arrested an alleged gang member in connection with the fatal shootings of two 13-year-old boys in Cicero late Thursday. Another man also was...

The phone rang. It was Jim Miller. "We know who you are," he said. "Come on over." Three days earlier, I had visited Miller's detective agency and challenged him to...

Child welfare workers have questioned a 4-year-old boy in the investigation of the beating death of a 3-week-old girl, a police spokesman said Tuesday. The welfare officials were called after...