Monica Davey

After linking the deaths of 591 babies to spending the night in their parents' or caretakers' beds, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday urged parents to put children...

Responding to an ongoing congressional call to upgrade security at the nation's major airports, the Federal Aviation Administration this fall will seek public comment on tougher procedures concerning security screening...

As a still bruised, 12-year-old boy returned to his Back of the Yards neighborhood school following what prosecutors called a racially motivated beating, Chicago Public Schools officials on Thursday launched...

The city's top honchos will spend New Year's Eve together in a small, indestructible room on the West Side, watching computer images of police cars and fire engines zip around...

It was scarcely on the order of an arm being broken off Michelangelo's priceless Pieta in 1972 at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. But it was another chip in the...

The Cook County Medical Examiner's office has ruled the death of Gregory Riley, the 31-year-old man who died Monday night after a struggle with Chicago police, a homicide. Riley, 31,...

Several Hyde Park neighbors received an unlikely phone call last week from city officials who wanted to send them money--an unsolicited reimbursement for sidewalk repairs they had paid for. The...

Anthony Porter, whose exit from Death Row last month focused national attention on capital punishment, has returned to jail. Porter turned himself in to authorities Tuesday afternoon after arrest warrants...

After a year and a half of remission, Illinois Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan on Tuesday announced that doctors have found a small cancerous growth in a gland near his jaw....

A state payment to compensate Anthony Porter for the years he was wrongfully imprisoned on Death Row could be significantly reduced because he also was serving time for other crimes,...