Teresa Puente

Ivan Mercado didn't marry for love. He did it for $1,000 and a car. The Waukegan hairdresser admitted in court documents last week that he married three women in less...

Nestled among candy skulls are a few small pictures. One is of Patti Scribner's mother, and the other of her father, both dead for years. A few candles surround the...

Baltazar Enriquez's mother wanted a better life for her 3-year-old son, so under the cover of night in the early 1980s, she and her son risked their lives and crossed...

Child welfare workers have questioned a 4-year-old boy in the investigation of the beating death of a 3-week-old girl, a police spokesman said Tuesday. The welfare officials were called after...

The air is out of Chicago Heights native Kevin Uliassi's attempt to become the first solo ballonist to fly around the world. Unsure he'd have enough fuel to make it...

Four weeks after Gov. George Ryan declared a statewide moratorium on the death penalty, the Illinois House overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that bans capital punishment for the mentally retarded....

The quadrennial parlor game, "Will Iowa Surprise?" was played feverishly around the state Sunday in advance of the first major test of the 2000 presidential campaign. Will publisher Steve Forbes...

Satellites beam images of a frenetic political tableau to the nation: cameras converging on barns and farms, students waving pompons for their favorite candidate, bus caravans rolling across stark country...

Defending his claim to the votes of social conservatives, Texas Gov. George Bush said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide was a constitutional "reach" and...

Since authorities began dismantling the notorious Cali and Medellin drug cartels of Colombia in the late 1980s, drug barons have learned to shun the spotlight, law-enforcement officials say. Last week,...