Steve Schmadeke

Among all the lifestyle columnists out there, few cater specifically to police officers, with topics like "copstaches," "badge bunnies" and "cops in the bedroom." For the past two years, Michael...

Facing "financial devastation" from his divorce with Kathleen Savio, Drew Peterson allegedly offered someone $25,000 to kill his wife in late 2003, just months before she was found drowned in...

An attorney representing Kathleen Savio's estate is arguing that Drew Peterson's $20 million bail in her drowning death should not be reduced since any assets he may use for bail...

Authorities are investigating whether an early Saturday morning fire that tore through a two-story Mundelein home and killed a 12-year-old boy was intentionally set. Jorge Juarez, who neighbors said loved...

The science fiction series "Star Trek" -- which hit theaters Thursday after a seven-year hiatus -- has long drawn devoted fans who dress in costume or speak in Klingon. But...

On a day when Johnny Swek would normally have been taking a spelling test, the 1st-grader was kicking back in the library, playing computer games and flipping through picture books....

From castoff VHS tapes piled up at Chicago thrift shops, record stores and yard sales, the purveyors of the Everything is Terrible blog mine bits of inadvertent yet sublime comedy...

An experiment in democracy went awry this week in Normal, when online voting for a new minor league baseball team's name ended up with a risque term hacked to the...

It had to happen eventually. Someone -- a Harvard professor and Illinois Institute of Technology graduate -- has developed inhalable chocolate. The product, called Le Whif, will make its debut...

Video game giant Electronic Arts has produced some wildly popular titles, but 15 years ago it released what is considered one of the worst video games ever made. Set right...