Eric Ferkenhoff

Striding through the streets of this small town Tuesday, the slightly built 15-year-old suspect in an alleged plot to kill his high school classmates had, for the benefit of pursuing...

DNA tests have ruled out the second of two northwest suburban men suspected in the disappearance and murder of 14-year-old Amber Creek of Palatine, Wisconsin authorities announced Monday. Creek ran...

A 24-year-old Texas man was jailed Monday on $50,000 bond after he allegedly mailed a package of chemicals used to make a so-called date-rape drug to himself at the Motorola...

The story of adults pulling child pornography off the Internet has been told so many times it barely grabs headlines any more. Almost unheard of, though, is the story of...

A Des Plaines bank was held up Monday morning by a gunman who made off with nearly $3,500, according to police and the FBI. The man walked into the LaSalle...

Thousands of households across the northwest suburbs are expected to empty just after 6 p.m. Oct. 7 to mark an ambitious fire safety effort being coordinated across the country and...

Officially, no one--not the police, not the state's child-welfare agency--is prepared to say that something awful has been happening to children behind the walls of Wheeling's Calvary Presbyterian Church. There...

No injuries were reported after a fire damaged a warehouse of a Schaumburg commercial garage door company on Tuesday evening. The blaze broke out shortly after 6 p.m. at the...

As details of independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report on President Clinton began to sink in Saturday, U.S. Rep. Glenn Poshard (D-Ill.) was among the few Illinois politicians saying he plans...

A body believed to be that of a missing 38-year-old Elgin man was found Thursday in the Fox River in Elgin. Police and the Kane County coroner's office said late...