OPERATION SAFE ROAD
More than a decade ago, Tammy Raynor and Tony Berlin, loyal Republican patronage workers, seethed as they watched unqualified applicants collect passing grades on driving tests and receive truck-driving licenses...
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U.S. ends Muslim registry
The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it is largely scrapping a controversial Justice Department-initiated program requiring men from predominantly Muslim nations to come in for questioning, fingerprinting and...
Muslim exodus from U.S. unravels tightknit enclaves
On the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Shakeel Ahmed loaded his wife and five children into the family's green 1994 Mercury mini-van, their years in America reduced to...
Torn from families and jobs, deportees face bleak future
Suleman Faqih was jolted awake just before dawn last January, when federal agents entered his bedroom and stuck a flashlight in his face. "Get up!" they told him as he...
Immigration crackdown shatters Muslims’ lives
The 75 passengers on the Icelandair jet sat strapped to their seats, cloth bands cinching their arms to their waists for all but the final descent of the three-leg, 20-hour...
Labor accords set new course for United
The last three unions at United Airlines ratified new, six-year contracts Tuesday, allowing the carrier to finally achieve its goal of slashing labor costs by $2.56 billion a year. It's...
United to lay off 3,400 more
Thousands of United Airlines employees will be put on unpaid leave as the war with Iraq forces the bankrupt carrier to tighten its belt further, the workers' unions said Thursday....
Heist couple met in prison
They met across the chow line in prison. She was working as a cook, he was an inmate. He had already done time for robbery and was serving a second...
Brown’s suspects charged
In their videotaped confessions, Juan Luna and Jim Degorski insist they entered Brown's Chicken & Pasta at closing time on Jan. 8, 1993, with robbery on their minds. But on...
DNA technology catches up with Brown’s case
The revelation of a long-kept secret pointed investigators to the two men now accused of murdering seven people at a Palatine fast-food restaurant. But authorities made clear Saturday that it...