Barbara Sherlock

The Planning and Development Committee voted 2-1 Thursday to accept a compromise liquor-licensing plan introduced by Mayor David Stover. The City Council's committee of the whole decided last month to...

Ways that children and families can enjoy life without drugs or violence were recently pieced together via quilt squares created by more than 200 pupils, along with their families, from...

Those with a connection to Geneva as well as St. Charles are now welcome at the warm weather emergency shelter, Lazarus House, which opened its doors Monday for its second...

I once looked on a young green tree. I have forgotten where it stood. I only know the leaves of it scattered light in shadow wood. Light, like that moving...

Corrine Schuessler gladly relinquished her self-imposed moniker of "Pinhead" and again became "Pocahontas," her preferred nickname and one more befitting of the 18-year-old's tall stature, tawny skin and long dark...

A young boy could develop quite a thirst living in the California desert. But water isn't why Robert Ballard claims he immersed himself in deep sea exploration, a career choice...

With a decisive poke to the keyboard resting on his wheelchair, Carl Lasco added his thoughts to those of several speakers at a recent ground-breaking ceremony for a $5 million...

Dr. Leon Kelleher isn't sure whose voice it was. But a voice rising from behind him during a tour of Holy Family Church in Chicago four years ago volunteered Kelleher's...

Its reputation for meandering around notwithstanding, water, it seems, is really just one big bonding buddy system. "They really like to hang together," said environmental engineer Susan Fullerton, of the...

Seven-month-old Adriana Rangel doesn't know it yet but while she recovers from a bone marrow transplant, a new soft stuffed white teddy bear is at home just waiting to be...