Cornelia Grumman

To some it is an art form in which the body--particularly the face--becomes a canvas of studs, spikes and hoops. But to many a politician, the creative expression of body-piercing...

Until Tuesday's shooting that left 15 dead in Littleton, Colo., this had been the nation's least violent school year since at least 1992. Officials attribute the overall downturn to new...

After he racked up three speeding tickets in a year's time, John Stokes' license was automatically suspended for two months. But in Illinois, that wasn't enough to keep him off...

When Gov. George Ryan learned at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday that Andrew Kokoraleis was dead, he finally was able to get some uneasy sleep after the most harrowing day of his...

Six-year-old Emily Lemak had long admired a neighbor's cats, so just three weeks ago her parents bought her a calico of her own and she named it Cupcake. It was...

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a key figure in the state's license-selling scandal to 5 months in prison and 5 months in home confinement. Standing before Judge Suzanne Conlon,...

As state legislators and the Illinois Supreme Court struggle to determine a course of action following the release of Anthony Porter--the 10th Death Row inmate to go free--Cook County State's...

In a less-than-sweet bit of confectionary computing, salespeople at Godiva Chocolatier in Water Tower Place last fall couldn't swipe credit cards that expired in the year 2000 or beyond. A...

Despite several years of warnings about the Year 2000 Bug and more than $1 billion already spent to fix it, much of the hard work required to make sure Y2K...

U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) worked to re-energize her base of support Saturday by touring African-American churches in Chicago and Rockford, but still had to defend charges by her Republican...