Janan Hanna

The choice offered by the judge in April 1994 to the 23-year-old Downstate woman who had pleaded guilty to aggravated battery of her 2-month-old child was simple. She could serve...

Retired Chicago police officer William Sacco still sees the bloodstained panels on the Charlie Brown blanket that wrapped the body of 6-year-old Tony Canzoneri 18 years ago. He says he's...

The case against Rolando Cruz ended in high drama Friday, with DuPage County Circuit Judge Ronald Mehling delivering an unusually blunt message to prosecutors about their handling of the 12-year-old...

Two months after Glendale Heights opened the door to competing cable television franchises, a cable TV trade group filed suit Monday to slam it shut, claiming the deal is unfair...

After 15 years of fruitless leads and frustration in the slayings of Darlene and Bruce Rouse, Lake County authorities emerged last week with a prosecutor's golden egg: the videotaped confession...

Students graduate from law school well versed in theory but are poorly trained in skills to begin lawyering in the real world. That's the opinion of Tom Leahy of Chicago...

In legal maneuvering that would do O.J. Simpson proud, defenders have kept the law at bay to spare a jungle cat from the death penalty for mauling a 2-year-old girl...

The boy known as "Richard" was not even 3 months old when the lawyers started fighting over who would raise the baby. When he was just a toddler learning to...

Apparently Richard Phelan is the reason, or at least one reason, that Michael Pope is resigning from the prominent Chicago law firm the two founded in 1976. "I have differences...

New rules governing civil litigation approved by the Illinois Supreme Court last week are meant to save time and money and quicken the resolution of disputes. But some attorneys-especially those...