William Mullen

Two weeks after the death of a pair of beluga whales at the Shedd Aquarium, officials completed a preliminary investigation saying they still don`t know what killed the animals. Dr....

A federal veterinary official Thursday joined the inquiry into the deaths of two beluga whales at the Shedd Aquarium. Shedd officials are working with marine mammal experts from around the...

Death for the graceful young beluga whales, known to animal trainers as Nos. 4 and 6, came in the chilly waters of a 30,000-gallon marine mammal medical pool at the...

Two of the Shedd Aquarium`s beluga whales died there Tuesday following injections of anti-parasite medicine, prompting outrage from animal-rights activists who for years have fought the importation of the popular...

It has been a brawny but remarkably balletic show, each machine and man working in concert under the incandescent glare of the spotlights. In the backdrop is the darkness where...

A meeting of the University of Maryland Board of Regents was suddenly disrupted earlier this year when eight people in an audience of about 50 jumped up and began shouting:...

Whether or not the Shedd Aquarium`s giant Oceanarium ever becomes a whirlpool of beluga whale passion or just a sedate backwater for a couple of luckless, lovelorn animals is now...

The United States has a reputation as the most litigious society in the world, a place filled with lawyers and citizens eager to sue over just about anything. This, say...

Five years and four months after Tony Affatato died, a jury of nine women and three men filed into a Daley Center jury room to fix the blame. At 9:40...

Defense attorney Dennis Rasor was poised to attack. Before him, on the witness stand in a Daley Center courtroom, was Merle Haber, a prominent pathologist from Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke`s. Haber had...