Lara Weber

Egypt unloads on 'The Matrix' Egypt's censorship board says it is banning "The Matrix Reloaded" from showing in the country because the movie is too violent and too religious. The...

Three years ago, on a stewy day in Houston, Elisa Lippincott and her friend Nan stopped at the office water fountain for a drink. Instead, they came face to face...

After a six-month delay, the Chicago Department of Health has placed restaurant inspection results on the Web. The department's page generates reports on specific establishments and provides a glossary of...

The 9-year-old girl abducted from home helped win her release by telling her kidnapper she was sick--and then helped authorities make a quick arrest by memorizing his cell phone number,...

Citing a closer review of videotapes taken during a notorious hazing, Cook County prosecutors filed additional misdemeanor counts of battery Wednesday against 15 former Glenbrook North High School students already...

He, or she, is super-cute and single. You really enjoy your casual conversations whilst filling up your sports bottles at the water cooler. You think: If these casual meetings are...

A 13,980-foot mountain peak in Colorado has been named in honor of the space shuttle Columbia. The mountain peak, in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, was named "Columbia Point" in...

Super-sized Americans are increasingly as common as super-sized meals, but health experts still disagree about the cause, the cure and even whether greater girth is a matter for public concern...

Even the weather gods, it seemed, couldn't help but catch the spirit of the African rhythms that filled Daley Center Plaza at the "Under the Picasso" event Tuesday afternoon. Gray...

Age: 34 Job: Dueling pianist at Howl at the Moon, 26 W. Hubbard St. Neighborhood: Gold Coast Describe your job in 10 words or fewer: Musical marionette/harlot, live juke box/gibbering...