Judy Peres

A federal jury in Chicago found Monday that leading anti-abortion activists conspired to use violence or threats of violence to prevent women from using abortion clinics--a huge court victory for...

Making an unusual appearance in federal court, U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde on Thursday called anti-abortion activist Joseph Scheidler a "hero" and compared abortion clinics to Nazi death camps. The conservative...

When Lydia and Everette Thompson disappeared nearly 18 months ago, along with their two young sons, their neighbors were not particularly worried. Residents of the 8100 block of South Rhodes...

A female supervisor in Chicago's Fleet Management Department sought help from the federal courts Tuesday for what she alleged is repeated sexual harassment and mistreatment by her bosses. Ruth Figueroa,...

In 1966, the early days of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, a teenage Wei Jingsheng took to the Chinese countryside with other idealistic Red Guards to "learn from the workers and...

The moment Constantino Torres admitted twisting and breaking the leg of his 9-month-old son, caseworkers made up their minds about the home life of little Frank Diaz. They saw Torres--who...

When 3-year-old Frank Torres was returned to the custody of his mother four months ago, long after his broken leg had healed, a battery of child-welfare experts agreed that he...

A South Side woman has been convicted for the second time of killing millionaire David Ray McCoy, her live-in boyfriend, in 1988. A jury of nine women and three men...

Wei-Min Li, 63, clutched her citizenship handbook tightly, the lines around her eyes deepening in concentration as she tried to pronounce the name of Revolutionary War-era statesman Patrick Henry, and...

Through his center's Klanwatch Project and, more recently, its Militia Task Force, Morris Dees has been tracking racist and far-Right paramilitary groups since 1980. He argues that groups like the...