Teresa Puente

The lead suspect in the July slaying of 11-year-old Ryan Harris, currently under arrest on charges of sexually attacking a 10-year-old girl in January, has been convicted in two cases...

The new leading suspect in the Ryan Harris slaying case is a 29-year-old man now in the Cook County Jail on charges that bear similarities to the Harris killing: Both...

For nearly nine hours, the jury kept the photographs of Lenard Clark's badly beaten body before them. In almost no time, they agreed that Frank Caruso Jr. had indeed beaten...

Lydia Lood grew up in the Philippines of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, who robbed their country blind. And that's why Lood, who became an American citizen Thursday, has a hard...

In an office inside an Englewood health center, women and teenagers seek rape counseling and legal advice, while volunteers wear pagers around the clock, ready to respond to calls from...

With Mayor Richard Daley continuing to support the Chicago Police Department's investigation of the Ryan Harris murder, police acknowledged that, contrary to previous assertions, they had produced sketches of an...

Over the past few weeks, the father of an 8-year-old boy once accused of murder has been recounting the plot of the popular Disney movie "The Lion King" for his...

After six hours of often rancorous proceedings, a Juvenile Court judge late Thursday ordered a 7- and an 8-year-old charged with murder to be released to the custody of their...

Dressed in their best traveling suits and chattering in Chinese, the three women walking through Chinatown early last week blended in with the merchants, schoolchildren and mothers in the neighborhood....

By the time she was in her 50s, Willie Mae Pittman imagined, she would be running her own dress shop, going on cruises and enjoying her life. Instead, she found...