Ofelia Casillas

A day after racially threatening letters prompted the evacuation of black and Latino students from Trinity International University, some returned Friday to the Bannockburn campus under heavy security. The events--triggered...

A 3-month-long custody battle over an infant girl that began with her Chicago mother's toll-free call to a Utah adoption agency ended Thursday night with the baby's safe return to...

After dozens of court hours, thousands of dollars in legal fees, the plea of a governor and a 3-month custody battle, Baby Tamia is returning to Chicago. A Cook County...

Following their arrest by undercover narcotics detectives, the adoptive father locked in an interstate adoption dispute acknowledged Tuesday that he and his wife have "a one in a trillion chance"...

Utah police operating an undercover narcotics investigation found drugs in the home of a Salt Lake City couple locked in a custody battle with a Chicago mother who gave her...

A federal judge ruled that Illinois families were deprived of their constitutional rights when state child welfare officials threatened to separate parents from their children during abuse investigations. In a...

It sounded like balloons popping. Weekly services for the Living Church of God congregation had just begun inside a suburban Milwaukee hotel conference room and about 80 members were in...

It sounded like balloons popping. Weekly services for the Living Church of God congregation had just begun inside a suburban Milwaukee hotel conference room and about 80 members were in...

Maria McDonald prays for two things: that her daughter Carmen's mental health improves and that Carmen's decision to give up her 4-month-old baby for adoption is reversed. Without telling her...

Michelle Chavez didn't have any campaign signs in her front yard in Cicero. She didn't pass out fliers. She didn't have a massive political war chest. But she took Democrats...