Michael J. Berens

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...

Federal officials often cite the City of Chicago as a model for community policing and the COPS program, but community leaders and a recent study call that distinction into question....

Citing evidence that thousands of nursing home patients diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses are receiving inadequate care, the Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to require stricter standards and, for the first...

Thirty years ago, the State of Illinois was casting about for a creative way to release thousands of mentally ill patients from poorly run and abusive psychiatric institutions. Too many...

Responding to increasing evidence of cracked electrical wire insulation in the fuel tanks of commercial airliners, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it will expand the hunt for bad...

As many as one in four commercial airliners, primarily older models, are outfitted with electrical-wire insulation deemed unreliable and banned by the Department of Defense two decades ago. Beginning in...