Rick Jervis

Joseph "the Clown" Lombardo was at a workbench in his small Near West Side shop, where masonry saws and tools are sharpened, when 10 federal agents swarmed in. One agent...

A Harvey man charged with murdering his mother, wife and infant son considered killing a woman he brought home for sex during the weekend, but decided to let her go,...

Martin Kracht--an out-of-work security guard who struggled between piety as a Jehovah's Witness and drunkenness and accusations of domestic abuse--was charged with three counts of first-degree murder Wednesday in the...

The mother of an 11-month-old boy, Vinese Bell-Kracht was trying to piece her life together after a rocky two-year marriage. Last month her estranged husband, Martin Kracht, was charged with...

Insurgents carrying homemade bombs pierced Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Thursday, unleashing a pair of lunchtime explosions that killed at least three American civilians and shattered what was left of...

Marines, Army soldiers and Iraqi security forces launched a large operation Tuesday aimed at rooting out insurgents and cutting their travel routes in this rural farm region south of Baghdad....

As dawn leaked into the dark morning sky, threatening to steal their night cover, the Iraqi SWAT team drove up to the staging area, riding in the back of pickup...

The case involving the mixed-race couple and the Steger landlord seemed solid to south suburban housing advocates. After federal investigators found that the Will County couple had been discriminated against,...

Bridgeview officials completed the purchase of a key piece of property Thursday that could become the site of the Chicago Fire stadium, offering hope for a project plagued by controversies....