David Heinzmann

Christmas Eve and there's white powder scattered on the ground across Lincoln Park--a quintessentially beautiful Chicago scene. Unless the powder isn't snow and no one knows what it is for...

A federal gang task force has exonerated four men whom Chicago police investigated and Cook County prosecutors sent to prison for a 1997 murder, which U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald said...

Nearly seven months ago in Dallas, when America's Catholic bishops agreed on a new policy to address clergy sexual abuse of children, they said they were on their way to...

In the first indictment of a local Catholic priest since Chicago-area dioceses surrendered internal documents to prosecutors this year, a former Joliet diocese priest was charged Thursday with aggravated criminal...

Illinois began its controversial death penalty review Tuesday with defense lawyers arguing their clients were condemned by a flawed system, angry prosecutors demanding justice, and the families of victims tearfully...

A Ford City Shopping Center security guard shot an armed robbery suspect inside a J.C. Penney store Tuesday after a chase through the mall sent terrified shoppers scattering and ducking...

A teacher and dean at Lincoln-Way East High School in Frankfort was suspended after he was charged Friday with having sex with two students. Gregory Sharpe, 36, of the 700...

Three days after a federal jury convicted Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese and six others on corruption charges, one of the jurors on Monday expressed misgivings about the verdict even...

Reports of violent crime have increased in Will County, even as the number of murders dropped dramatically in one of the state's fastest-growing counties, according to state figures released Sunday....

A priest on leave from his parish since last month because of a sex-abuse allegation has been reinstated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet, church officials said Saturday. Rev....