Stephanie Banchero

A Cook County judge found probable cause Thursday that convicted child molester Richard Bailey likely will molest again and ordered him to stand trial, making Bailey the first Cook County...

Racial tensions over allegations of police brutality again reverberated through a courtroom Wednesday during a hearing for Jeremiah Mearday, who is facing charges of resisting arrest and assault but says...

The Arnold Mireles homicide case, already highly visible because of the victim, his community advocacy and a motive of murder-for-hire, took a new and politically sensitive direction Tuesday with the...

The number of parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago that are running budget deficits is higher now than at any other time in history, according to financial statements...

Douglas Davis has faced peril in the past. As a Cook County sheriff's deputy and one of a small group who chase down convicts who've gone AWOL, Davis has wrestled...

The torture and kidnapping trials of three men were thrown into turmoil Monday when a judge refused to allow written testimony from the victim, who died Dec. 26 of a...

It was a violent weekend in Chicago, perhaps an ominous New Year's start for a city that days ago boasted its lowest homicide rate in nearly a decade. At least...

For many years, this placid town tucked into a crook on a rural road in western Indiana has been known, if at all, as the site of an annual four-day...

"My vow must be kept so long as this church stands. Let those seven lights be lighted today, ... and I charge you to keep them burning until time has...

In the up-and-down world of toy sales--where gadgets and gizmos live and die on kids' constantly changing whims--perhaps nothing is spinning out of control these days quite like the popularity...