Kerry Luft

Recently, a reader wanted to know why the newspaper that hit her porch in Park Ridge didn't have a story in it about a monster storm bearing down on the...

When I was a little boy in New Orleans, my family had a late-night (and early-morning) tradition: Pile into the car and head for the French Quarter, where we would...

It is a good thing that Jo Soares is fat. Otherwise, there might not be enough of him to go around. A cheap shot, you say. Perhaps. But consider this:...

The biggest controversy in Brazil these days involves the misadventures of "Braulio," a legendary figure who has never-thank goodness-been seen in public. You see, "Braulio" is the name of a...

Despite a car bombing in the Miraflores district of Lima on May 24 that killed four, the Shining Path guerrilla movement is not the threat it once was. But tourists...

On Nov. 2, 1994, Tempo reported on the renovation of the Copacabana Palace hotel, one of the landmarks on Rio's famous Copacabana beach. After more than two years of work,...

County Board Chairman Aldo E. Botti, who is the only board official not elected from a district, could be the biggest winner in the board`s new redistricting plan. The map,...

Prompted by citizen complaints, the Illinois attorney general`s office is investigating whether the K-5 Construction Corp. violated state environmental regulations in its operation at the Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Quarry. K-5 has...

A five-car Amtrak passenger train derailed near Peotone on Wednesday after colliding with a truck hauling a semitrailer of steel, police said. Thirteen people were injured, said Sgt. Pat Maher...