Laurie Goering

When Capt. Donald ''Butch'' Carr`s plane disappeared over Laos in 1971, his family was reluctant to believe the cocky three-tour Green Beret was really dead. ''We`ve always said if anybody...

A Kenilworth woman was found shot to death early Saturday in the bedroom of her home, and police late in the day had no leads in the killing. The body...

Only small amounts of petroleum products have leaked into residential areas from a multimillion-gallon sea of oil discovered beneath an Amoco refinery in Whiting, Ind., company officials said Thursday. The...

Calumet City aldermen Thursday night rejected a 5 percent utility tax proposed by Mayor Robert Stefaniak who had called the tax the only alternative to layoffs of city workers. The...

They hang out on street corners. They lurk near downtown office buildings. They cluster on the fringes of suburban corporate campuses. Beggars? Gangbangers? Pickpockets? No, they`re smokers, pushed about as...

Move over, micro-mini skirts: Spandex and tattered bluejeans are about to take top billing in the high school hall of fashion shame. At Lockport Township High School District 205 in...

Severe thunderstorms rolled through the Chicago area Saturday, flooding basements and yards, closing roads and causing scattered power outages. The heaviest flooding came in the south and southwest suburbs, where...

It`s 2:30 p.m. at the Homewood Public Library and Jenny Tromski, Julia Janowick and the rest of the crowd of regulars are there, as they are every day after school....

Friends remember Christopher D. Peterson as a quiet but fun-loving young man, a former member of the freshman basketball team at Gary`s Lew Wallace High School and an avid dancer,...

It was a day for slipping and sliding Saturday-not on the roads, for once, but on the slopes, where fluffy snow fell in glorious measure for the first time this...