Jeremy Manier

Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center officials Monday revoked a policy that allowed staffers to ignore a critically wounded 15-year-old boy only steps from the emergency room after Chicago police criticized what...

Surely the obnoxious, round-faced boys from "South Park" would have something to say about Principal Kevin O'Connor's decision to ban the cartoon's T-shirts and images in his Cary school. The...

The family of a 13-year-old boy who was expelled for bringing a non-functioning hand grenade to Richmond Consolidated Grade School said Wednesday they have no idea where to send him...

Michael Travis' life lasted less than four days. But his death has ignited a fierce dispute over whether a widely accepted treatment for prematurely born infants somehow contributed to his...

There is one thing on which everyone involved in the Baby Travis case agrees: The extremely premature infant already was battling huge odds to survive and suffering burns on his...

One of Illinois' top Republican insiders announced Friday that he would not seek another term on the party's central committee, leaving some uncertainty as to who his successor would be...

After months of controversy, the McHenry County Board of Health decided Monday night to keep a federal program that funds reproductive services for women. The $47,800 grant, called Title X,...

The Great Balloon Race ended late Wednesday shortly after it began when Chicago Heights architect Kevin Uliassi's craft, named after his wife, J. Renee, experienced loss of lift and made...

A 1-month-old girl's death was ruled a homicide Friday morning by officials from the Cook County medical examiner's office, while authorities continued to investigate whether the unrelated death of a...

A smoky odor permeated Gethsemane Garden Missionary Baptist Church on Christmas Day as Rev. Joseph Payne preached to just a half-dozen of his South Side Chicago parishioners, all of them...