Linnet Myers

The year was 1974, and Jolanta Krol was a young doctor working at the Dabrowka Mala Children`s Clinic. One of her patients, a 6-year-old boy, was suffering from lead poisoning....

Peering anxiously through steel-rimmed glasses in Warsaw`s infamous Rakowiecka prison, David Bogatin looks somewhat like Woody Allen in ''Take the Money and Run.'' For a man who became a hugely...

When a Hoffman Estates police officer shot and killed a man last week, some witnesses made much of the fact that the man was black and the officer white. Authorities...

The 3-year-old boy remembers the incident clearly. He describes it in the simple constructions of a Dick and Jane story, although the words betray a different world, one of starker...

An outraged man opened fire on an automobile on the West Side Thursday morning, injuring five people he apparently blamed for stealing his car radio, police said. The gunman drove...

It definitely is not lonely at the top. The Chicago Bulls celebrated their NBA championship Friday in Grant Park with several hundred thousand of their biggest fans in a rally...

An Arlington Heights teenager found shot on the South Side of Chicago was allegedly set up by another youth who accompanied the victim to buy marijuana, police said Wednesday. Shawn...

An autopsy on Wednesday disclosed that a professor at the University of Chicago who this month told a student he had been threatened, was a victim of murder, police said....

Chicago`s soaring murder toll climbed further over the last few days as 15 people were killed in unrelated incidents, police said. The causes for the separate cases of violence ranged...

Chicago police and federal authorities on Thursday announced separate seizures of weapons, which included hand grenades, automatic rifles and 133 handguns, from city areas. Four men, including two Japanese citizens,...