David Heinzmann

At a point when most senior police officers led from behind a desk, Garry McCarthy was frisking suspects on the streets of New York's most notorious drug mart. While contemporaries...

A United Airlines employee was recently charged with having a .38-caliber gun in his car while he was parked in an employee lot at O'Hare International Airport, police said Tuesday,...

With his hands bound behind him and tied to a metal bar, Eduardo Sanchez watched in terror as his former co-worker waited for the arrival of each employee of Windy...

After flying in a famed forensic anthropologist to examine bones the FBI dug up outside U.S. Cellular Field, authorities filled in the excavation Monday afternoon and scheduled a Tuesday news...

A suburban publisher of a small Arabic-language newspaper was arrested Wednesday on charges he acted as a paid agent of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service, tipping off Iraqi spies to the...

The back porch that collapsed and killed 13 people over the weekend was wider than allowed by city code and its floor supports too thin, causing the structure to splinter...

By the time Eric Clarke arrived at the Lincoln Park party, people were starting to say their good-byes. It was 20 minutes past midnight, the kegs were running dry and,...

Mayor Richard Daley and top police officials promised Tuesday a new plan to redeploy officers to high crime areas on a day-to-day basis will be far more effective in fighting...

Even as major crime dropped across Illinois for an unprecedented eighth year in a row, reports of rape spiked, reaching levels not seen since the mid-1990s in some parts of...

A prominent Chicago music club has been partially silenced by the city for at least the rest of the month after officials charged it failed to follow the provisions of...