Marja Mills

For Illinois environmental officials, the announcement this week that three state sites had been added to the federal Superfund cleanup program was not grim news at all. In fact, ''we`re...

The jilted teenager accused of killing her former boyfriend`s date by hitting the victim with her car last year was found guilty of murder Friday by a McHenry County Circuit...

Police combed De Kalb Tuesday for fugitive Richard Church, wanted for a double murder in Woodstock, after two Northern Illinois University students said they saw him driving through campus. Church,...

Algonquin became the latest northwest suburb to fall victim to water shortages this dry summer when village officials announced Friday an emergency ban on all sprinkling. Less stringent restrictions also...

At the time her infant son was fatally poisoned, Shelia Smith was struggling to choose a career and move out of her mother`s house, according to two of her brothers....

A Lake County judge set bonds of $1 million each Thursday for a North Chicago man and woman who police said poisoned their infant son with sulfuric acid in order...

Three people were killed and three others injured Tuesday night in a head-on collision on Int. Hwy. 57 near 108th Street that apparently occurred when a car crossed the highway...

A 43-hour drama in which as many as four people were held hostage ended Sunday night when a gunman killed his girlfriend, shot her sister and then killed himself, authorities...

A special education teacher at a South Side high school was shot in the head and critically wounded by her estranged boyfriend Thursday, about a half- block away from the...

At least 13 people were injured late Wednesday night in a pileup on the Kennedy Expressway as freezing drizzle produced treacherous driving conditions on Chicago-area roadways. Besides the accident on...