Tonya Maxwell

Cook County's chief medical examiner announced his retirement Tuesday, saying his decision was spurred in part by a proposed 10 percent cut to his 2007 budget. Dr. Edmund R. Donoghue,...

The Pontiac Grand Prix was moving fast--so fast that when it hit a dip in the road early Monday morning it went airborne then smashed into a light pole, killing...

As 9-year-old Kaysha Madison tailed her younger brother from their third floor apartment Monday morning, she turned to shut the door as he stepped onto the wooden stairwell. She heard...

Paul de la Garza, the son of a shrimper who rose from the poverty of south Texas to become a columnist and foreign correspondent for some of America's top news...

Just off a plane from Mexico and headed to meet his young grandson for the first time, Guadalupe Gonzalez was riding on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Thursday when the...

A former Berwyn band teacher, who admitted Thursday that he acted out his sexual fantasies by tying up and inappropriately touching young girls in his classrooms, was sentenced to 20...

What appears to be a projectile shattered the window of a pickup truck in northwest Indiana Wednesday afternoon in what law enforcement officials said was the 10th such incident in...

Angry about the police shooting of a 14-year-old boy, Cabrini-Green residents took the streets Tuesday, lashing out at police and the abuse they feel in increasingly affluent surroundings. Marchers shouted...

When car windows began shattering along bustling Cline Avenue two weeks ago, the talk was that a sniper was on the prowl. Hoosiers had just dealt with a quick but...

A Chicago police narcotics officer was attacked and injured by a dog Sunday afternoon as he questioned people after an undercover operation on the West Side, police said. The incident...