Tom Pelton

Two boys and a firefighter were injured Sunday in a house fire that may have been started by a child playing with matches. Smoke detectors awoke three children and a...

Wagreens has canceled a project that would have demolished a landmark building in downtown De Kalb and replaced it with a drugstore and parking lot. De Kalb Mayor Greg Sparrow...

Kevin Lighty was down on his luck. His wife had left him, he was up to his neck in bills and he owed $3,000 he couldn't pay. Then the 30-year-old...

It began at 8:30 a.m. Friday as a chance encounter in the commuter parking lot of the Naperville train station. Richard Nieves, a 21-year-old machine operator from Aurora, told police...

A former Aurora nightclub operator who owes more than $37,000 in child support will soon have his face on hundreds of wanted posters distributed by the state. Edward Simpson, 49,...

The dormitory manager at Columbia College has resigned in the wake of a student protest about allegedly racially insensitive searches of black students' rooms to investigate a theft. Marie Kenney,...

Whatever you do, do not look directly at people who are looking at an eclipse. They are apt to be doing faintly embarrassing things, like peering into shoeboxes and giving...

A 3-year-old Hazel Crest boy who was staying with relatives while his mother had a baby was accidentally shot and killed Saturday afternoon in Chicago. Christopher Brown was the youngest...

Edward Lyng had a millionaire's confidence and composure last month during his murder trial arising from the disappearance of his wife in 1977. Neatly dressed and well-groomed down to his...

The scuba divers knew they would find old tires, enough to fit a fleet of taxis. But they did not expect to retrieve a kitchen stove and a complete set...