Bob Secter

James Madison, the primary architect of the Bill of Rights, was indisputably a man of great foresight. But in an age of the handpress and the town crier, he never...

In the great green room, nothing much happens. There's a comb. A brush. A bowl full of mush. A quiet old lady whispering, "hush." There's a telephone, and a red...

In one snapshot, Andrew Cunanan seems all innocence--a baby-faced preppy with horned-rim glasses and a fetching grin. In another, he appears a gaunt, angular gigolo, with lips thinly pursed, dark...

Lee Miglin's life was rags-to-riches inspiring, his death almost impossible to comprehend. The 72-year-old was hacked by a garden implement, slashed and beaten over and over, his throat cut, his...

No one on trial for murder could be expected to be a model of composure, but Nancy Rish seemed lost in a fog when she testified in 1988. Bubbly and...

A safety standard for theaters and public buildings rises from the ashes of the Iroquois Theater, where more than 600 people were killed. School was out for Christmas, so the...

It's impossible to pinpoint when a mind first veers from eccentricity into madness, but Marshall Applewhite may have hit that fork in 1969 when Neil Armstrong took humankind's first step...

A frantic five-day hunt for two missing Chicago-area college students and three friends culminated Wednesday after searchers found their sport utility vehicle in the Mississippi River only blocks from where...

Viola Brown doesn't know anything about Michael Jordan, but she knows plenty about birthdays and so can speak with authority when she says the Bulls superstar should view his 34th...

In an extraordinary rift on the state's highest court, one justice has accused the court's leader of sidestepping a long-standing court custom in a possible attempt to protect himself from...