Janan Hanna

After a man charged in a series of rapes and murders was denied bail Monday, prosecutors disclosed that they had sought a 30-year sentence for him for torturing and raping...

Grand Central Police Officer Joel Bemis, his partner and their lieutenant were given a very specific assignment on the morning of March 19, 1998, according to court testimony. They were...

In the mountain of transcripts that comprise the official record of the five-week trial of the man accused of killing Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale lie the keys to the...

Every month, the Cook County state's attorney's office obtains a list of thousands of prospective jurors that is then turned over to investigators who conduct background checks to aid prosecutors...

The jurors deliberating the fate of the man accused of murdering Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale have raised questions about one juror's ability to fairly deliberate because he told them...

Rev. Duane "Scott" Willis -- whose six youngest children died in a 1994 traffic accident involving a trucker who allegedly paid a bribe to get his commercial driver's license --...

Joe Sallas, an ex-convict who was accused of shooting at the publisher of a south suburban newspaper chain, was found not guilty of attempted murder after a daylong bench trial...

Kevin Williams was held without bond Thursday in connection with the death of his girlfriend, flight attendant Traci Todd, following a brief hearing in a packed and emotionally charged Cook...

A Chicago woman who suffered irreversible brain damage while being treated for pneumonia at Ravenswood Hospital will receive $43 million under the terms of a personal injury settlement made public...