Boy suspect ordered held
A slight 12-year-old boy walked hesitantly into Juvenile Court on Monday in a gray T-shirt, black sneakers, jeans a bit too long. His hands were not restrained, but he kept...
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Questions mount on state hiring
On his first full day as Illinois' new governor, Rod Blagojevich dramatically displayed his reform agenda by firing dozens of his predecessor's allies and ordering a freeze on state hiring....
All Kids push heating up
Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration is engaged in a massive public relations push for his child health insurance proposal, using state agencies to ask such disparate groups as construction contractors and...
Tot, 2, shoots boy with uncle’s gun
Hours after the shooting, the 2-year-old used his limited vocabulary to try to describe what happened. "Pow, pow," he said to his mother, and then spoke his friend's name. Police...
City quietly swings into cleaning up
Thousands of residents returned Friday to a city that only vaguely resembled the one they had left weeks earlier. The French Quarter's usual sounds of laughter, horse-drawn carriages on cobbled...
Spirits sink as floodwaters rise
They rode out the winds of Hurricane Rita only to watch the water wash away their homes and dreams Saturday. Water rose with the southerly wind off the Gulf of...
SIU cops digging deeper into `Sgt. Kennings’ hoax
The Southern Illinois University Carbondale Police Department is investigating the "Sgt. Dan Kennings" hoax to determine whether anyone broke the law in carrying on the two-year ruse about a phony...
Krystal, Laura were almost inseparable
They were close friends, as close as 2nd graders can be, playing with Barbies, enjoying a Popsicle or riding double on Laura Hobbs' blue, pink and white bicycle. Laura, 8,...
2 missing girls are found slain
[Read an update of this story.] It started as a typical spring Sunday for two 2nd-grade girls: riding bikes, flying kites, swinging in a backyard hammock and, later, an adventure...
Police: Dead Zion girls were stabbed
It started as a typical spring Sunday for two 2nd-grade girls: riding bikes, flying kites, swinging in a backyard hammock and, later, an adventure in a wooded public park that...