Karen Mellen

The body of a 3-year-old boy, who was abducted with his sister three weeks ago by their father, was found Sunday floating in a Will County marina on the Des...

A Champaign pediatrician who attacked her 6- and 10-year-old sons with a knife in February, killing the older boy, was found not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday after three...

Democrats may have won most of the major state offices in Illinois, but their success at the top of the ticket seems not to have trickled down to the local...

State health officials announced Thursday three more human fatalities from West Nile virus but said the volume of new cases is subsiding, likely because of cooler weather. State health officials...

As the federal government pumped money Wednesday into Illinois' fight against the West Nile virus, the state's top health official predicted the number of cases will rise in coming weeks...

A 22-year-old student is believed to have contracted Illinois' first human case of West Nile virus while living in the Chicago area this summer, state public health officials confirmed Tuesday....

As federal health authorities urged stepped-up mosquito spraying Monday to fight the spread of the West Nile virus, area officials worried that a ban on spraying in forest preserves is...

Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton hopes to build a 162,000-square-foot building to replace its in-patient facility, which would be turned into administrative offices. The hospital, which specializes in treating patients...

John Scherer's downward spiral began long before he became the prime suspect in the stabbing death of his ex-wife, then crashed his car into a semitrailer truck Wednesday on a...

The first bird to test positive for the West Nile virus in DuPage County was found in Glen Ellyn last week, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Already...