Carolyn Starks

A 911 dispatcher heard the screams of a Spring Grove mother trapped with her two children in the second-floor bedroom of their McHenry County home as fire engulfed it early...

The McHenry County state's attorney's office is investigating an allegation that funds were misappropriated at the Turning Point domestic-violence agency. Thursday, the agency's board fired its financial officer, Kenneth Kunzer....

After warning about larger class sizes, teacher cuts and fewer student activities, school districts saw mixed results Tuesday from voters reluctant to increase their taxes. Voters in south suburban Thornton...

On Thursday, six days after her 17-year-old son disappeared, Terry Carrick passed out fliers with his photograph, hoping for one clue that would tell her what happened to her dependable,...

Harvard schoolteachers said they plan to strike Wednesday if they cannot reach an agreement with the school board over salary increases. "We agreed to pay an additional amount of insurance,"...

When some 375 teachers in Downers Grove hit the picket lines Monday morning, their contract dispute over benefits and pay revealed a financial fault line that runs under many affluent...

Lisa Derman had told her story a thousand times before, about how as a teenager she watched the Nazis massacre thousands of Jews, how she survived the horror of three...

As reports of major crime fell for an unprecedented seventh straight year statewide, McHenry County recorded a sharp increase, particularly in violent crimes, according to state crime statistics released Sunday....

A former prison inmate who sued state corrections officials unsuccessfully several years ago, claiming he contracted the AIDS virus from repeated prison rapes and that they had failed to protect...

Divers scoured the bottom of the Fox River in Carpentersville for 12 hours Tuesday but failed to find the gun used in the 1993 Brown's Chicken slayings. About two dozen...