Investigators reopen probe into jail death
Local law-enforcement officials have reopened an investigation into the 2007 killing of an inmate at Cook County Jail after a Tribune article last fall questioned the thoroughness of the initial...
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Detention of Bradley grad to be reviewed
The man whose case President Barack Obama ordered top officials to review Thursday is a Qatari national and father of five with roots in Illinois, and is the only enemy...
Prisoner guilty in fatal beating
A federal jury on Thursday convicted an inmate of voluntary manslaughter, not second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of another inmate in Chicago's downtown federal prison in March. Two jurors...
Detention of Bradley grad to be reviewed
The man whose case President Barack Obama ordered top officials to review Thursday is a Qatari national and father of five with roots in Illinois, and is the only enemy...
Detention of Bradley grad to be reviewed
The man whose case President Barack Obama ordered top officials to review Thursday is a Qatari national and father of five with roots in Illinois, and is the only enemy...
Inmate tells his side at fatal-beating trial
Jason Tolen, a powerfully built convicted felon, broke down Wednesday as he testified on why he beat another inmate to death with his bare hands in March in Chicago's downtown...
Inmate’s fatal beating in front of 40 others played in court
Federal prosecutors played a dramatic videotape in court Tuesday showing an inmate beating another to death in Chicago's downtown federal prison as the two took a course in "growth and...
Ryan’s bid for clemency dims
Hope waned among supporters of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan Monday as the final hours ticked down on George W. Bush's presidency without a word on Ryan's bid for release...
No charges in ’06 crash that killed 4
An investigation into a 2006 car crash that killed four people on Chicago's South Side failed to turn up evidence that the wreck was a gang-related homicide, Cook County prosecutors...
No charges in fatal crash
An investigation into a 2006 car crash that killed four people on Chicago's South Side failed to turn up evidence that the wreck was a gang-related homicide, Cook County prosecutors...