Wes Smith

As last fall's grape harvest was coming in at Galena Cellars Vineyard in northwestern Illinois, a mystery man suddenly appeared and took charge. "He was backing trucks up into the...

Four Indianapolis police officers were indicted Friday by a grand jury investigating an incident in which off-duty members of the city's emergency Mobile Field Force allegedly harassed and beat men...

In a setback for homosexual rights advocates who have claimed that their movement is winning acceptance in rural America, this central Illinois town's city council has rejected a proposed ban...

Federal agents working on a tip from suspicious family members closed in on an isolated Montana cabin Wednesday and detained a former college math teacher for questioning as a key...

The little park on the prairie that was spurned by Peoria and the state of Illinois may soon have a handsome new companion--a children's camp overseen by movie star Paul...

Last March, a federal judge dismissed the $12 million lawsuit brought by a Chicago man who was expelled from Valparaiso University after allegedly raping a woman student there. That case,...

Twins Dorthea Ann and Mary Margaret Beck regularly baked chocolate chips for the children who knew them as the "Cookie Ladies" in the working-class Alton neighborhood where the sisters spent...

On March 5, Tempo reported on a proposal to return 400 acres of ancient tribal land in central Illinois to the Kickapoo Nation for the creation of what would have...

On April 27, 1993, Tempo reported on a mystery that had caused no little despair in Charleston, Ill. And now, after 2 1/2 years, it appears the mystery of who...

On Nov. 2, 1993, Tempo reported on a wild horse controversy in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri, within the Mark Twain National Forest and the Ozark National Scenic Riverways near...