SCHOOLS FLUNK FOOD SAFETY
Rodents and bugs infest Chicago school kitchens and cafeterias. Chips of paint float into the cooking pans, and walls are slicked with chronic grime. Frozen entrees wrapped in cellophane are...
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Vendors reap millions from schools
The half-pints of fresh milk that build strong bones in children also provided a steady income to a trio of veteran contractors who learned to tap the profits embedded in...
Meat from troubled plants sold to U.S. lunch program
The cattle were herded into the grease-slicked east Texas slaughterhouse, then the cuts of beef were trucked to a germ-ridden grinding plant. Even as safety citations piled up at those...
SCHOOL LUNCHES
- The number of school food outbreaks reported to federal officials soared 56 percent in the 1990s. - In a notorious case tortillas from a South Side factory were implicated...
FBI keeps watch on Islamic charity
Outside the Bridgeview charity, a bright sign reads: "Compassion in Action Throughout the World." But federal investigators are examining whether the $5 million-a-year Global Relief Foundation belongs on a list...
FBI keeps watch on Islamic charity
Outside the Bridgeview charity, a bright sign reads: "Compassion in Action Throughout the World." But federal investigators are examining whether the $5 million-a-year Global Relief Foundation belongs on a list...
Muslims now hesitant to give
In their mailboxes and at the mosques, Muslims continually hear the pleas: donate to feed the starved children in Afghanistan, to aid refugees from Chechnya, to help widows and children...
WHEN GOOD INTENTIONS AREN’T ENOUGH
THE LOST CHILDREN OF WILDER: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care By Nina Bernstein Pantheon, 482 pages, $27.50 As President Bush calls on religious groups to shoulder a greater...
MYSTERY BALLOTS BREAK PATTERN
In Palm Beach County, 435,638 people voted for a U.S. Senate candidate on Tuesday, but in an apparent anomaly, 3,352 fewer punched their ballots with a presidential choice. This seeming...
Oct. 24, 2000: 3 unsolved slayings link police, mob crews
On a September day in 1997, a top assistant handed Chicago's police chief an inch-thick dossier of internal reports. In the file's blunt law enforcement prose, then-Supt. Matt Rodriguez encountered...