Andrew Martin

Keith Donald, 27, a Cook County sheriff's deputy, allegedly beat his 3-year-old stepson to death because the child was splashing too much in the bathtub. Sammy Reyes, also 27, is...

Roderick Gardner's home life bucks the stereotype of a Chicago police officer. He doesn't live in Jefferson Park, Chicago Lawn or Beverly, solid middle-class neighborhoods that are havens for thousands...

For at least a decade, neighbors of Delores Arnold on Chicago's Northwest Side have signed petitions and have gone to court to get her to clean up her filthy buildings...

David Paulsen is known as a "homebody" on the street in west suburban Leyden Township where he lives. Colleagues at the Glen Ellyn car dealership where he sells parts describe...

Fifty-four Chicago police sergeants walked across a stage Thursday and were each handed a baton symbolizing their promotion to lieutenant. For them, it was the end of a frustrating process...

A 16-year-old on a double date was killed early Thursday as he drove on the Dan Ryan Expressway only blocks from his home, in a shooting police are calling gang-related....

As the outcry against a new and deadly armor-piercing bullet mounted Tuesday, federal regulators said the bullet had not been tested or licensed yet and politicians vowed to create laws...

Two female teenagers were charged Thursday with beating and strangling an elderly South Side woman, while carrying out a plot to search her apartment for valuables they could use to...

Augustine Smith was a 93-year-old who clung to a few simple pleasures. She went to church every Sunday. She sat on her front porch in the summertime, waving at neighbors...

An attempt to make a routine drug search of a van on the North Side triggered a wild chase and exchange of gunfire early Monday that ended with the deaths...