Carolyn Starks

The House Appropriations Committee narrowly voted down a bill that would have required federally funded clinics to obtain a parent's consent before giving birth-control services to someone under age 17....

Several local women's groups have banded together to ask county officials to continue accepting federal funds that provide, in part, contraceptives to teenagers without parental consent. The various groups appeared...

Taped to the tinted glass door of Club Storm is a list of 13 rules for patrons of the newest teen club in the northwest suburbs. The rules include no...

As Chicagoans continued to celebrate the Chicago Bulls' fifth championship, a distraught Manuela Diaz stood in a friend's Cicero two-flat Saturday, clutching her 21-month-old son and waiting to hear whether...

Steven Edwards, a longtime local men's clothing store and one of the few remaining tenants of the Crystal Point Mall, is leaving the mall to expand at a downtown location....

On the eve of a day symbolic of hope and rebirth, community leaders gathered on Chicago's South and West Sides to pray for 13-year-old Lenard Clark, who is slowly emerging...

The director of nursing at the Sunset Manor nursing home in Woodstock was suspended without pay Tuesday after being charged with possession of drugs, authorities said. Gloria Saltow, 46, of...

State regulators Thursday urged the General Assembly not to restrict the speed of Metra express trains at suburban rail crossings. Since a 1995 school bus-train accident that killed seven high...

Metra commuter trains should not be forced to slow down through the Fox River Grove intersection where seven high school students died in a 1995 bus-train accident, a new state...

A Carbondale man pleaded guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in McHenry County. Perry Hanelt, 34, was found guilty Tuesday of criminal sexual assault by McHenry...