Karen Brandon

The duel of the frill-less flyers has begun in California, which is why I sit at 31,000 feet, aboard the inaugural United Airlines Shuttle flight 2340, counting pretzels. Just what...

No great discovery has to be made-no invention of some new device, no solving of an age-old mathematical riddle-to stop the killing, abuse and neglect of children. The answers are...

Child abuse isn't a problem unique to modern times, even if vast attention to it is. For centuries, children in many societies were viewed as nothing more than chattel, property...

The world's best surgeons operated. With medical bills exceeding $1 million, no expense was spared. And in the end, the most that medicine could bring Angela Lakeberg amounted to less...

There have always been more questions about Gail Savage and her three dead babies than answers. On Monday, authorities in a Lake County courtroom took the first steps toward finding...

Authorities investigating last week's murder of two men at a pizzeria remained tight-lipped Sunday about how the case was proceeding. Police Lt. Paul Hendley declined to say whether investigators have...

At 45, Linda Frykholm appeared to be leading an ideal life. Her marriage had lasted for 24 years. She adored her two children. She lived in a stately home and...

Lake County prosecutors said Monday that they will seek the death penalty for Leslie Peace, accused of his former girlfriend's murder. Kimberly Globis, 25, was slain Oct. 19 in the...

Floating away on an ice slab looked easy when Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer did it in the classic cartoon. Bill Matson is here to say that in real life, things...

Two more Lake County school districts-one in Vernon Hills, the other in Winthrop Harbor-will be on this year's state watch list of districts facing serious financial trouble, local officials said...