Dan Hinkel

Pauline Betts-Bracy was a reliable caretaker who helped raise several foster children, and she built a reputation for supporting family members, her daughter said. A relative she had previously supported...

A male relative of the woman who was one of two people found shot to death in Country Club Hills Friday night is being questioned by police, officials said. Country...

Nearly everything Juan Rivera owns is new. On Thursday, less than a week after his two decades in prison ended, he walked the floor of his newly rented two-bedroom apartment....

Illinois National Guard Spc. Paville Simpson said he acted instinctively when he caught and held three teenagers accused of trying to steal a man's iPhone at a North Side CTA...

A Chicago woman began 2012 by bashing a fellow New Year's Eve reveler over the head with a Champagne bottle at a Southwest Side party, prosecutors said Sunday. After suffering...

Ending nearly 20 years in custody, Juan Rivera walked out of prison today hours after authorities said they will not challenge an appellate court's reversal of his murder conviction in...

Responding to a Tribune report that drug-sniffing dogs were wrong more often than they were right about the presence of drugs in cars, legislators moved to require state certification of...

The traffic stop began peacefully three hours into New Year's Day 2010, with the woman driving the SUV telling the officer that she hadn't been drinking and her husband merrily...