T. Shawn Taylor

The family of an Arlington Heights police officer who was seriously injured in a traffic accident announced Thursday they are closing a fund established to help his family after collecting...

After nearly four months of digging and laying foundation, Palatine's new $4 million Metra train station is one-quarter complete, local officials announced Monday as they marked the occasion with the...

Nicor Gas told state authorities it discovered spilled mercury at four industrial sites in two Chicago suburbs, but the source of the toxic metal was a different device than the...

Advocates for the mentally ill said they accept a Kane County grand jury's decision not to bring criminal charges in the death of Tina Winston, a 11-year-old asphyxiated last month...

In Tucson, Ariz., a 15-year-old girl died from asphyxiation in 1998 after being pinned face-down by two workers at a youth psychiatric center. In Chula Vista, Calif., a 16-year-old girl...

Tina Winston, an 11-year-old state ward with a history of behavior problems, was in the waiting room of an Elgin counseling center Monday evening when she began talking about her...

An 11-year-old mentally retarded girl died of asphyxiation at an Elgin counseling center after being pinned to the floor face-down by two case managers from the Little City Foundation home...

Elgin police Tuesday were investigating the death of an 11-year-old girl at an Elgin counseling center. Shortly after 7 p.m. Monday, police were summoned to Northwest Treatment Association Inc., at...

A 9-year-old boy drowned Sunday in a water-filled pit that is part of a splash pool under construction in a West Side park, officials said late Sunday. The boy was...

A third Harper College student died Monday of injuries suffered in a two-vehicle crash last week near the Palatine campus. William McLenahan, 18, of the 100 block of North Harvard...