Maurice Possley

On June 15, 1994, 13 days after Beverly Heard first went to authorities, she was scheduled to meet with police and prosecutors investigating her assertions that she had sex as...

Cautiously basking in the prospect of receiving his longtime wish for more control over Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday called a plan unveiled by Gov. Jim Edgar...

When 29-year-old Renee Rondeau was found strangled in the bathroom of her Lakeview apartment last fall, police had only one strong lead: Her bank card. It was stolen, and soon...

Mayoral candidate Joseph Gardner on Thursday endorsed a controversial proposal stalled in the City Council by black aldermen who complain that it is designed to keep blacks from seeing "for...

Getting off the Shannon-to-Blarney-to-Killarney tourist track takes some planning and, at times, a little haggling, but the effort can be quite rewarding. The Irish Tourist Board (Bord Failte in Gaelic)...

Fortunately, you never know what you`ll find on Page 72 of a newspaper. It was Feb. 12, 1979, when the Chicago Sun-Times introduced, on Page 72, a column on law...

At least 30 traders and brokers have agreed to provide federal investigators with details of pervasive fraud in Chicago`s billion-dollar futures industry and to name their alleged co-conspirators, sources familiar...

New York sports agent Norby Walters sat in front of his television set on April 28, 1987, watching the National Football League draft of college players, and his stomach was...

New York sports agents Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom, backed by the money and muscle of a powerful organized-crime boss, used cash and threats of violence to secure bargaining rights...

A long-brewing scandal over payments of money to college athletes by Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom, New York sports agents who allegedly induced players to sign improper contracts, is expected...