Cardinals pitcher Kile found dead
With 35,000 fans looking on, a baseball team confronted tragedy Saturday. St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile, 33, was found dead in his downtown Chicago hotel room shortly before his...
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Day-care worker’s record detailed
A Cook County judge Tuesday questioned a state law that allowed a South Side woman charged with killing a child to hold a day-care license despite a criminal record for...
4 suspended in drowning
Two teachers, a counselor and the assistant principal at Goldblatt Elementary School have been ordered to stay home with pay pending an investigation into the drowning death of a 14-year-old...
ALVIN M. DAVID, 95
Alvin M. David spent 35 years working in government bureaucracy, but the real passion of a man who wrote prose and sang ballads in his spare time was the arts....
Smooth takeoff for air safety rule
Passengers were greeted Friday by long lines in some airports and a smattering of flight delays as airlines began operating under new rules requiring them to screen all checked baggage...
DUI offender suspect in crash
State police were investigating Monday whether a Niles man who wasn't supposed to be driving until 2010 was behind the wheel of a car that crashed into a mini-van, killing...
Hard times take toll on tipping
The Chinese zodiac may have identified 2001 as the year of the snake, but those in the service sector knew it as the year of the thin envelope. The holiday...
Toddler’s strange odyssey ends
Wearing a wide smile, a tearful Marcella Anderson was reunited Friday with her 16-month-old daughter, Jasmine, 500 miles from the Chicago bus station where the toddler had been snatched by...
VA hospitals’ role is called vital
Veterans Administration hospitals would play a key role in a national crisis, which underscores the importance of streamlining the system, according to a top VA official. "Ongoing world events have...
Panhandlers welcome truce
In his 22 years of panhandling on the Michigan Avenue Bridge, Robert Hardison has been arrested plenty of times. Often unfairly, he says. "Yeah, I hustle people, but I don't...