E.A. Torriero

An image of two young girls resembling a pair of South Side sisters missing for a week was captured by surveillance video Tuesday at a grocery just three blocks from...

Distraught over the death of her cat, the woman charged with driving her car onto a Gold Coast sidewalk, killing a 2 1/2-month-old boy, smoked PCP about a half hour...

A Chicago woman was charged late Monday with reckless homicide after her rented car crashed into a couple from Egypt and killed their 2-month-old son in a stroller on a...

With three years of detailed study already in hand, airport officials in Memphis decided in 1987 to build a new 2-mile-long runway and expand one of the three existing landing...

For decades, the FAA has wasted more than $2 billion on research and failed plans to unclog the nation's jammed air system. But there is one thing the agency should...

As the worst Mississippi River floodwaters in eight years reach near-record highs in some areas of Illinois and Missouri this weekend, a debate has been rekindled over how best to...

A huge gamble appeared to be paying off Tuesday. As the swollen Mississippi River crested at more than 22 feet, makeshift sandbag dikes and levees were holding back the floodwaters,...

Tom Crandall was praying for good news. But two days after his son's spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet and landed in that country, any news would do....

Federal accident investigators began to examine hundreds of fragments of damaged railroad track Sunday to determine why an Amtrak train that left Chicago Saturday afternoon derailed in Iowa, killing one...

A seemingly innocuous proposal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of Chicago City Council meetings threatened Tuesday to balloon into a fractious debate over sensitive issues of...