Michael Berens

The autopilot system aboard EgyptAir Flight 990 became disengaged and the crew put the plane into a relatively gentle "controlled descent," investigators said Wednesday, citing the first evidence from the...

Nearly 10 days after an EgyptAir jet plunged into the North Atlantic, killing all 217 on board, federal authorities have yet to announce whether necessary repairs had been completed on...

Years after operators of Boeing 767 aircraft were supposed to have modified the jets, an EgyptAir plane similar to the one involved in Sunday's fatal crash suffered accidental deployment of...

The family of a cancer patient given fatal doses of chemotherapy will receive a $7.9 million settlement from University of Chicago Hospitals. The hospital agreed to the out-of-court settlement Thursday,...

Even as the University of Illinois at Chicago labors to correct problems that have suspended human research at the school, unprecedented growth in experiments using human subjects nationwide has created...

Three years ago, researchers in the psychiatry department at the University of Illinois at Chicago recruited a patient for what they told her was a study using high-tech brain scans...

From the backwoods compounds of the Christian Identity movement to the one-room Illinois headquarters of the World Church of the Creator, white supremacy organizations are stepping up recruitment efforts to...

A self-described white separatist with a history of violence and neo-Nazi sympathies turned himself in to the FBI in Las Vegas on Wednesday after eluding an intense 24- hour state...

When the Chicago City Council passed its highly publicized anti-gang loitering ordinance in 1992, the measure was hailed as one of the most effective weapons yet against street gangs and...

Almost five years ago, President Clinton vowed to add 100,000 new police officers to the nation's streets in a bold gesture to make Americans "freer of fear." Last week, after...