Sam Roe

Two congressmen and two activist groups are calling for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to increase safeguards and medical testing for hundreds of agency inspectors exposed to the toxic...

The boldly striped red and white cement trucks have long been a common sight in Chicago, pouring concrete for miles of curbs and sidewalks as well as for skyscrapers, Comiskey...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, long criticized for downplaying the dangers of beryllium, has discovered that several of its employees have been affected by exposure to the deadly...

The U.S. government on Tuesday placed on its official list of terrorist supporters a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman who established a charity in the Chicago area to help fund Muslim...

The Lincoln Park Zoo keeper who was seriously injured by two lions in September had gone into the cats' yard to give them fresh water, apparently forgetting that she had...

Three firms that were suspended from Chicago's scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program have lost their city certification as minority- or women-owned businesses after the city conducted investigations of them, newly released...

For years, Mayor Richard Daley and other city officials have said they have given minorities and women hundreds of millions of dollars in city contracts--usually 30 to 45 percent of...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, under attack recently for not protecting its own employees, will soon begin testing its inspectors for possible exposure to the deadly metal beryllium....