Monica Davey

On one wall of a windowless room at the Criminal Courts Building, jurors taped up huge sheets of butcher paper and, using felt-tipped markers, began listing reasons for and against...

Describing himself as "the most hated man in the city of Chicago," the sole holdout juror in the trial of the man accused of killing Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale...

The jurors deliberating the fate of the man accused of murdering Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale have raised questions about one juror's ability to fairly deliberate because he told them...

Rainbow/PUSH Coalition board members voiced support for founder Rev. Jesse Jackson with a unanimous vote of confidence Friday, as new questions emerged about funds given to an employee who had...

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson on Thursday announced that he will take time off from public life to "revive my spirit and reconnect with my family" after admitting that he...

Despite the best efforts of judges, lawyers, political parties and even the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Election That Wouldn't Die stubbornly staggered on for weeks after...

Under orders from Texas Gov. George W. Bush, furious Republicans turned to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to try to stop hand recounts in three heavily Democratic Florida counties that...

As fatigue, frayed nerves and even vacation plans created distractions for the tedious hand-recounting of 1.7 million South Florida ballots, a larger question about a tiny subset of ballots emerged...

For months, the major parties ignored Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader as a well-meaning but quirky also-ran, a virtual asterisk on the ballot. But with just a week left,...

On one of the warmest, clearest weekend evenings of the year, hundreds of people were eating and listening to music in the grass beside Jackson Park's basketball court when gunshots...