Darlene Gavron Stevens

Eleven-year-old Amanda Krueger, wearing a "Don't Bug Me" sweat shirt and wielding a yellow screwdriver, deftly dismantled pieces of her bedroom, which had been awash in fetid water just a...

In the pounding, predawn rain, Debbie Krueger boarded the kind of ark Noah might have used if he had lived in the suburbs: a neighbor's fishing boat, crowded with Krueger;...

More than a year after Ernst Neumann was reunited with 10 of his stolen exotic baby birds, the breeder says he still wonders what happened to three birds that were...

"What's this case about, a big house or something?" the new clerk in Circuit Judge James Stack's courtroom asked Worth village attorney Mathias Delort Monday. "It's a castle," Delort said...

Officials were investigating the cause of a Tuesday-morning fire that killed two children who were visiting a relative at her apartment. Marques Vance, 15, and Tiana Parker, 2, the brother...

Blaming the trend toward shorter hospital stays, Olympia Fields Osteopathic Hospital dismissed 55 of its 950 employees Thursday, some six weeks after being bought by Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. The cutbacks...

Friends and co-workers of John Haviar said Friday that they were not surprised he risked his own life trying to save two workers who collapsed in a fume-filled pit at...

After a breast cancer diagnosis, most patients call a specialist. Then, to understand it all, they consult "Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book" (Addison-Wesley, $17). Her book, in its second edition,...

Breast cancer survival and humor? It's a combination therapy two nurses--one a breast-cancer survivor and the other a publisher of a humor journal--hope to anchor in a special Breast Cancer...

On Monday, a counselor is set to try and work out what two parents, two other therapists, a host of lawyers and even a judge has failed to do: Get...