Linnet Myers

What began as a routine press conference so State`s Atty. Cecil Partee could respond to some campaign charges, wound up with Partee face to face with Republican challenger Jack O`Malley,...

The killing this week of a student in her off-campus apartment in Champaign has focused new attention on a proposed law that would force universities to release crime statistics. Jennifer...

The ashes at Commonwealth Edison`s fire-damaged Switch House 1 are cold, but the battle over the company`s liability for damages and discomfort during the three-day blackout on Chicago`s West Side...

A census double-check last week of 94 homes in a small section of Chicago`s Lincoln Park neighborhood missed residents of at least 28 occupied apartments, a Tribune investigation has determined....

At 2:40 a.m. on June 8, Curtis Sims, a self-employed mechanic, left his girlfriend`s house and headed for his red and white Chevy, parked in the 5300 block of South...

Drug dealing is a business that can lead to ruthless competition. When dealers in the house at 5259 W. Washington Blvd. began selling heroin at less than the going rate...

Efrain Maldonado spent 45 minutes filling out forms. He had one for each parking ticket: 97 in all. He had to write his name 291 times. ''I`m tired,'' he said....

The city`s measles epidemic is under control, thanks to a ''classic'' public health effort by workers who took to the streets to fight the disease, health officials said Wednesday. Health...

I magine a field of cows, each exactly alike. How could it be done? And how is an ''E.T.''-embryo transfer-calf created? Veterinarian Richard Whitaker described the E.T. process, which also...

When immigration officials raided the South Side meat-packing plant where Edward Soja worked, he hid behind a pig shaving machine. ''The immigration people would come to our shop, but they...