The marbled halls of Congress echoed with the report of gunfire, sending hundreds of people to run for cover or to flee in terror. In a harrowing few minutes, the...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois pleaded guilty Thursday to systematically defrauding Medicare and agreed to pay $144 million to the government, by far the largest fraud penalty against...
In a victory for athletes with learning disabilities, including a former champion high school swimmer from Naperville, the NCAA agreed Tuesday to make it easier for such students to play...
Grass-roots activists reacted with dismay to Monday's verdict against anti-abortion groups, saying it threatens time-honored tactics in the fight for social change. While the federal jury levied an $86,000 judgment...
A federal judge on Monday cleared two men of all charges stemming from their involvement in an anthrax scare in Las Vegas last week but ordered one man--a microbiologist with...
Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie, a Little Rock, Ark., restaurateur and friend of the president, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he made illegal contributions and engaged in shady fundraising...
Plea negotiations to resolve the federal bombing charges against Unabomber defendant Theodore Kaczynski went into a deep freeze the moment Kaczynski demanded to represent himself and his lawyers responded by...
With the Lincoln Memorial as a backdrop, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) declared Wednesday that "mainstream Americans" want Bill Lann Lee in the nation's top civil rights post. At the same...
The century that began with a systematic slaughter of Armenians and was sundered by the Holocaust is reaching its close with the governments of the world still grappling with how...