Maurice Possley

In a rare move, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday reprimanded a former assistant Illinois attorney general and fined her $1,000 for failing to file required documents...

A day after a federal judge in Wyoming gave a green light to nearly double the number of snowmobiles allowed in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, the U.S. Department...

Cook County prosecutors will file no charges in connection with the July 2000 beating of five inmates at the Cook County Jail, citing contradictory accounts of what happened, a lack...

The Illinois Supreme Court Friday rejected a legal assault on 133 death sentence commutations granted by then-Gov. George Ryan earlier this year, but it kept alive prosecutorial opposition to blanket...

A criminal investigation is under way into allegations by five prisoners who say they were beaten by guards in July 2000 while handcuffed and shackled at the County Jail, Cook...

As Gov. George Ryan stood in a packed DePaul University law school auditorium pardoning four men on Death Row, a woman sat silently outside the door, thinking of her murdered...

A federal judge has refused to dismiss an indictment against a Tinley Park man charged with violating the Endangered Species Act by killing endangered tigers, then selling their pelts to...

Betty Loren-Maltese's controversial decade-long run as Cicero town president came to an end Friday when a federal jury convicted her of racketeering conspiracy and fraud in connection with the theft...

As the sport's top official looked on, three skydivers under high-performance parachutes lined up their approach to a tiny swimming pond late last Sunday afternoon at Skydive Chicago. They were...