Janan Hanna

At Thursday's funeral, the bagpipes played loud enough to stop traffic. Relatives wept with neighbors, work buddies and childhood friends. Teammates from a softball team stood beside children, locals from...

In Tucson, Ariz., a 15-year-old girl died from asphyxiation in 1998 after being pinned face-down by two workers at a youth psychiatric center. In Chula Vista, Calif., a 16-year-old girl...

Tina Winston, an 11-year-old state ward with a history of behavior problems, was in the waiting room of an Elgin counseling center Monday evening when she began talking about her...

A 35-year-old alleged gang leader from the Near South Side went on trial Tuesday, accused of ordering the murder of a community policing volunteer who had disrupted the gang's activities...

A Cook County Criminal Court judge on Tuesday denied a request for a new trial from a Death Row inmate who said his trial was tainted because the jury foreman...

A 4-pound infant snatched from a hospital nursery was still alive when his abductor stuffed the boy under a pile of clothes to hide him from police who had come...