War rekindles survivors’ grief
While giving birth to her first child two months ago, Tiffany Strehlow felt the spectral presence of her late father, a Persian Gulf war hero who had died in 1991...
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S.C. town feeling the absence of 150
To begin with, this place didn't have many people to spare. But after almost 150 of its men left one day, deployed with the National Guard's 122nd Engineers Battalion for...
Town waits, prays for a lost Marine
After Hymn No. 428--"For the Healing of the Nations"--they said a prayer for Private Gifford, wherever he is. "O God . . . look with compassion on the whole Gifford...
MILWAUKEE: School tries to soften the world’s hard edges
Parents and teachers at the Tamarack Community School, a nondescript building in a historically white-ethnic Milwaukee neighborhood that once served as the city's hippie epicenter, do their best to protect...
Maryville caught in cycle of tragedy
The lives of four children, each tormented by a cycle of neglect and abuse that seems to foretell tragedy, converged last month near railroad tracks in Des Plaines. What happened...
Fight ends in hug, Meeks win
Rev. James T. Meeks, a South Side pastor whose independent candidacy turned the normally predictable 15th state Senate District race into a down-and-dirty political power struggle, narrowly upset Democratic incumbent...
After the fear, a new normalcy for workers in Sears Tower
High over Canada, on a bright, late-summer morning, the crew of United Airlines Flight 945 out of Frankfurt, Germany, pointed the gleaming Boeing 747-400 south toward Chicago. With its signature...
Taking America’s pulse inside Sears Tower
It was a long way down. Seventy flights, 1,400 steps. Erin Frey took them one at a time in 2 1/2-inch heels, moving like a woman running from something. After...
Bombs found in Nebraska mailboxes
A day after pipe bombs found in mailboxes injured six people in rural Iowa and Illinois, authorities in Nebraska on Saturday were investigating five similar devices found scattered across five...
Agents say priest sold, made drugs
A 31-year-old Roman Catholic priest known as "Father Jeff" was arrested at the old red-brick church he leads in this little farm town and charged with helping to make and...