Brett McNeil

From his home in New Jersey, Lance Cpl. Phillip Frank could see the smoke rising from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Frank, a teenager then, told his...

Westmont police are investigating the cause of a head-on collision Monday evening that killed a 61-year-old Willowbrook woman and sent a 49-year-old Downers Grove man to a nearby hospital, authorities...

A young father's death beneath the tires of an 18-wheeler Tuesday night led to a rampage against the truck's driver, as a mob wrested him from his cab and pummeled...

A letter containing a "suspicious bluish powder" was delivered Monday to a savings and loan in southwest suburban Frankfort, bringing out hazardous material teams shortly after threatening letters and strange...

An autopsy Tuesday on a 21-year-old Woodridge man whose body was found floating in a retention pond Monday morning was inconclusive, and officials from the DuPage County coroner's office will...

The physical layouts at more than half of Metra's 224 stations, in which pedestrian walkways cut across railroad tracks, along with careless behavior by pedestrians, create a serious safety hazard,...

An 18-year-old Westchester man agreed Wednesday to accompany authorities to Wisconsin to face charges that he murdered his parents and uncle last weekend in the family's rural Wisconsin farmhouse. At...

Reacting to a drop in attendance and collections partly attributed to the priest sex-abuse scandal, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has been spurred to seek ways to motivate and mobilize...

Every morning, the parents of Army Spec. William "Dave" Dusenbery would check their computer for an e-mail from Iraq, reassuring themselves that their son was all right. On Saturday, nothing...

A northern gray wolf was shot to death at Brookfield Zoo after it seized the arm of a woman who jumped a fence to reach into its cage, the first...