Merrill Goozner

The Japanese government finally admitted Wednesday that its imperial army coerced women to become sex slaves during World War II. The admission, accompanied by a straightforward apology to female survivors...

The Navy has told Terry Helvey, a 21-year-old sailor charged with murdering a homosexual shipmate from Chicago Heights, that its lawyers would pursue the death penalty if he pleads innocent...

The Bush administration Tuesday turned up the heat on Japan when a high-ranking official warned that if Japan doesn`t lift its ban on imported rice, it would be held responsible...

Promises, promises, promises. Despite Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa`s repeated pledge to curb his nation`s export machine and encourage consumption of foreign-made goods, Japan posted a massive jump in its politically...

President Bush began trade talks with Japanese officials Wednesday only hours after the government of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa unveiled what it billed as an initial package of market-opening gifts...

Folks at the Chicago Bar Association wince when Joel Bellows suggests, in jest, a low-level nuclear explosion as a solution to the enormous woes facing Cook County`s overwhelmed and much-criticized...

Though they are more conscious about costs these days, Chicago law firms, for the most part, seem to be surviving the recession without the sort of public anguish heard in...

Chester Blair, a former president of the 22,000-member Chicago Bar Association, won Round 2 in his federal court battle with the state`s lawyer- discipline folks over the release of what...

Nearly two years ago, a landmark report documented the wide gap in Illinois between what is available in free or low-cost legal services and the needs of poor people facing...

Safety activists have been waging war against the delivery practices of Domino`s Pizza Inc., whose 30-minute delivery guarantee, they allege, is leading to senseless slaughter on the nation`s streets and...