War cuts young soldiers’ lives short
Sgt. Jason Antonio Vazquez, 24, of Chicago was dedicated to his family, never missing a chance to be with them, relatives said. Pfc. Leonard Gulczynski, a 19-year-old Army engineer from...
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PhD, the easy way
Brain surgery, anyone? Just slip on a hospital gown and step into my operating cubicle here at the Tribune. Let me clear my desk of printouts, unwashed coffee cups and...
Cops on bogus diploma list
A federal list of suspected buyers of bogus degrees from a Washington state criminal diploma scheme includes a Chicago Public Schools instructor and five current or former Berwyn police officers...
Profiling ‘consent searches’
Minority motorists in Chicago are about five times more likely than whites to undergo a "consent search," in which police at traffic stops ask permission to search vehicles. That disparity,...
Wheaton flock ousts Second Baptist pastor
A longtime pastor of the 101-year-old Second Baptist Church of Wheaton has been dismissed from his job after several women accused him of improperly touching them in a gym, according...
Student killed in drive-by
The fatal shooting of a Loyola University Chicago journalism student as she drove her car on Chicago's South Side Sunday night may be connected to another shooting the same evening...
Kendall nation’s fastest-growing county
When you live in a rural area in the shadow of behemoth Cook County, bragging rights can be hard to come by. Kendall County may be the birthplace of the...
Joliet diocese releases report on abuse cases
The diocese of Joliet released a two-year progress report Thursday on protecting children, and Bishop J. Peter Sartain will distribute it in an unusually broad way, said diocese spokesman Doug...
2 boys doused with gas, set on fire, police say
A father and his two young sons suffered severe burns in what police are investigating as an arson in their Glendale Heights home, authorities said Monday. After the fire, Kaushik...
Illegal abroad, hate Web sites thrive here
It might come as a surprise to the soldiers who defeated fascism in World War II, but the United States has become a refuge for Nazism and other brands of...