COP IS REINSTATED AFTER 2 YEARS
Town Hall District police Officer Pierre Zonis has been reinstated to the department, ending a nearly two-year Police Board case. In a 5-3 decision, the board ruled that Zonis had...
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KIDS LOSE OUT AS AGENCIES RAKE IN CASH
Miavria Thornton Rucker threw down her credit card and charged it to Chicago's most destitute children. She spent accounts set aside for abused and neglected infants on a $1,051 ensemble...
BROKEN TEENS LEFT IN WAKE OF PRIVATE GAIN
On a sun-drenched Sarasota morning in February 1995, Florida contractors applied for permits to build a home suitable for the executive who would take charge of Americas largest chain of...
STATES PUT KIDS’S LIVES ON THE BLOCK
In what amounts to a vast social experiment, government is retreating from its historic role of caring for orphaned and delinquent children and is parceling them out to an expanding...
CHARITY AGREES TO ALTER ADS
Under pressure from the Missouri attorney general, one of the nation's largest child sponsorship organizations agreed Tuesday to sweeping changes in its marketing and advertising, which had promised a "miracle"...
`PLEASE DO THE OPERATION,’ GIRL PLEADS
The closure of the Mount of David hospital in January 1995 ended the medical care for hundreds of children with club feet, dislocated hips and other congenital bone disorders, area...
HOSPITAL CLOSES WITH $6 MILLION QUESTION
In the end, the hospital was closed. The gates were locked and splashed with red graffiti. The sophisticated medical equipment purchased by American taxpayers was transferred to a consortium of...
AN EXECUTIVE WITH A GOLDEN TOUCH
At 30 years old, Joseph Gripkey didn't have a gilded resume. He had bounced from teaching high school to loading railroad cars. And when he landed a job as a...
THE LOW-COST LEADER
In the photograph, Londy is a sweet 6-year-old girl in a lacy dress, an oversize sweater and tiny boots. The background suggests poverty, but her face summons hope. "This child...
Jo Kelley Schuster wanted to take a…
Jo Kelley Schuster wanted to take a journey of hope and restoration, one that would fill the painful void left when cancer killed her husband shortly after his 50th birthday....