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Jose Amaya, left, and Paul Hoffard, right, troubleshoot a Braille device.

‘How do you explain love?’ She was a computer teacher at L.A.’s Braille Institute — he was a volunteer

June 24, 2019 at 6:54 p.m.

Tania and Jose Amaya are both a little shy, but ask them how they met and they'll light up. She'll blush. He'll grin. She was a computer teacher at the...

San Francisco university investigating confrontation over white man’s dreadlocks

June 23, 2019 at 9:12 a.m.

San Francisco State University said Tuesday it was investigating an incident captured on video in which a black woman confronted a white man on campus for wearing dreadlocks. In a...

Timothy McVeigh is led out of the Noble County Courthouse 20 years ago after being identified as a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing.

After Oklahoma City bombing, McVeigh’s arrest almost went unnoticed

June 23, 2019 at 12:56 a.m.

Like all the local legends in this little town, Charlie Hanger has a portrait hanging on the wall of the Kumback Cafe, between the photo of outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd...

Student in Calif. bus crash died saving others: Officials

June 17, 2018 at 3:47 p.m.

A student who died in last week's fiery bus crash in Orland, Calif., spent his last moments helping other passengers to safety, officials at his Inglewood charter high school said...

Students enter Banning High School in Wilmington on Friday morning. LAUSD officials said that 19 of its students were aboard the bus that collided with a FedEx freight truck in Northern California. At least 10 people were killed.

California bus crash: Report of fire in FedEx truck adds to mystery

June 22, 2019 at 9:13 a.m.

Investigators probing the collision of a FedEx freight truck and a charter bus that killed 10 were dealing with disparate clues, including reports that the truck was on fire before...

George Cotsirilos, 1920-2011

May 13, 2019 at 4:37 p.m.

George Cotsirilos, a defense lawyer who handled a number of high-profile cases during a career that spanned more than 50 years, died Sunday, March 27, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in...

11 hospitalized in Edgewater apartment fire

August 23, 2021 at 12:10 a.m.

With his Edgewater apartment building on fire and escape impossible through a smoke-filled hallway, Brian Long put his laptop into a backpack and tossed it out his third-floor window. He...

1 dead, 1 critically hurt in NW Side bungalow fire

August 23, 2021 at 8:16 a.m.

A man was killed and his sister critically hurt this morning in a bungalow fire on the Northwest Side while a man riding by on his bicycle was able to...

Wisconsin senators living day-to-day south of border

August 23, 2021 at 12:02 a.m.

Some senators left Wisconsin with little more than the clothes on their backs. Others came to Illinois equipped with an Urban Essentials pack: clothes, toiletries, cell phones, smart phones —...

Chicago, suburbs brace for blizzard

August 22, 2021 at 11:55 p.m.

After watching the East Coast repeatedly hit with ferocious winter storms, the Chicago area is now braced for what weather prognosticators say could be a "dangerous, multifaceted and potentially life-threatening"...

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