Michael Dorning

Former State Comptroller Michael Bakalis pulled the plug on his drive for the Democratic nomination for governor Wednesday, dramatically altering the dynamic of a campaign in which frontrunner Roland Burris...

Newly appointed Illinois security coordinator Matt Bettenhausen on Thursday pressed congressmen and regulators for new federal rules and cash to better protect the state's nuclear power plants, water systems and...

With one eye on the mounting terrorist threat and the other on their political futures, politicians from Springfield to Washington have begun to stake out turf as anti-terrorism candidates while...

Chances of a 10 percent hike in air fares in the next week or two increased Wednesday as the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation to reinstate a 10 percent...

Rep. J.C. Watts, an African-American conservative from Oklahoma, answered President Clinton's State of the Union address Tuesday by promoting the Republican Party as the champion of personal responsibility and racial...

The boy who sat alone in the school library reading comic books became the soldier hunkered in his barracks reading Guns & Ammo magazine. Fresh out of high school, Timothy...

The relationship between a mysterious federal informer with a reputation as an agent provocateur and the quiet, shy daughter of a slain black activist is at the heart of the...