Angela Rozas

Kneeling on the floor of a city bus, Jasmine Wilcox held her cousin's hand and prayed. She willed her 17-year-old cousin to wake up, to move, to live, but there...

When she started in her new post in Wrigleyville just before Opening Day, Chicago Police Cmdr. Kathleen Boehmer knew she was home. Nothing says welcome to a lifelong Cubs fan...

It wasn't so much that Chicago Police Officer Nathaniel Taylor Jr. wanted to catch the bad guys. It was that he wanted to protect the good ones. Coming out of...

It may not have been the drivers' fault, or even the pedestrian's, but when Miriam Benezra was fatally struck by two cars as she crossed a Far North Side street...

A Chicago man arrested near Sen. Barack Obama's home with a gun in his car has been charged with trespassing and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon Tuesday,...

The sound of gunfire came this time from a Chicago police officer's home where neighbors had seen what appeared to be a happy family. They knew of the doting father...

For the evacuees from Hurricane Gustav, Monday was a day of waiting -- waiting to hear if the storm had caused a repeat of 2005, when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...

Sheila Bouie and her husband marched up the esplanade leading to the Taste of Chicago Friday afternoon, their two sons and a niece in tow, ready to eat and catch...

A triple slaying in South Shore late Sunday and a rash of recent violence has some residents ready to leave their traditionally solid middle-class neighborhood. "I'm moving as soon as...

In a ruling last week that endangers Chicago's handgun ban, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of Americans to keep a gun in their home as protection. But does...