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A suburban man was killed and another was seriously injured Sunday morning when an acetylene tank they were using on a welding job exploded in front of a Carpentersville apartment...

The space shuttle Challenger investigation will reach a critical stage this week when a presidential commission plans to question publicly key NASA officials who made the decision to launch the...

The space shuttle Challenger investigation will reach a critical stage this week when a presidential commission plans to question publicly key NASA officials who made the decision to launch the...

A prison watchdog group warned Thursday that the more than 2-year-old lockdown imposed on inmates of the maximum-security federal penitentiary near Downstate Marion has fostered a ''repressive, destructive environment'' that...

It was late 1957, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was at the airport in Atlanta. Like other public buildings in the South, the airport had two restrooms for males....

The Chicago Board of Education is battling to reduce the 58.5 percent dropout rate at Du Sable High School in part with birth-control pills, but a South Side minister entered...

The boys at Gordon Technical High School were lectured Monday on the importance of good Christian behavior. More bluntly, teacher Maria Garvy told her sophomore English class ''that there shouldn`t...

Rev. James McLoughlin Rev. James McLoughlin, 45, pastor of St. Peter Catholic Church in Geneva, was the most visible of the Chicago-area hostages during the 17-day ordeal. Early on, he...

WHEN THE airplane`s no-smoking light went off, Dorothy Sullivan was reading an English-language newspaper that she had bought at the Athens airport. At a window seat two rows back, Sullivan`s...

When Rev. James McLoughlin`s brothers and sisters saw a letter from the hostages flashed on the television screen over the weekend, they were not surprised that the handwriting was his....