Barbara Mahany

After more than two weeks in captivity, followed by a few days in the international spotlight, former hostages here began Wednesday to resume the routines of everyday living. Kenneth Anderson,...

Simon Grossmayer got home from Lebanon just in time to greet his new grandson. Martin Simon Byrne was born at 8:37 a.m. Wednesday to Debra Byrne, less than 12 hours...

Dozens of American flags were displayed Monday along Main Street in Algonquin as residents prepared to celebrate two special events this week--the 4th of July and the homecoming of four...

Rev. James McLoughlin Rev. James McLoughlin, 45, pastor of St. Peter Catholic Church in Geneva, was the most visible of the Chicago-area hostages during the 17-day ordeal. Early on, he...

Simon Grossmayer`s daughter, Nora, said Friday that her father is in a hospital in Beirut but has yet not been freed by his Shiite captors. She said the State Department...

Barry Rosen, one of the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days, on Tuesday sharply criticized ''media psychologists'' who try to draw sweeping conclusions from television tapes about...

A nationally televised interview of 12 of the 40 American hostages--made on a videotape three days ago by Shiite Moslems but edited before its release Monday--shows the hostages to be...

When Rev. James McLoughlin`s brothers and sisters saw a letter from the hostages flashed on the television screen over the weekend, they were not surprised that the handwriting was his....

It was the nicest wedding present that Rev. Arthur Zillgitt of Yorkville could have received when he saw his daughter, Gail, 20, walk through the door of Gate 12 at...

Ken Anderson, 62, a superintendent at an Elmhurst construction firm, is an amiable man who values his privacy, according to neighbors and coworkers. ''I miss him,'' said Ambrose Bentele, 76,...