The father of a Chicago alderman has pleaded guilty to charges connected to a fake ID ring that stretched from his Little Village neighborhood photo shop to Mexico.
A man found a newborn boy wrapped in a plastic bag in the bushes next to the front door of his Uptown neighborhood apartment building and ran him to a nearby firehouse early this morning.
Police continue their investigation Tuesday into the apparent sexual assault of a woman found along a northwest suburban bike path near the Fox River Water Reclamation District treatment plant Monday.
The Group of Eight leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets.
Congress should repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law because the presence of gays in the military is unlikely to undermine the ability to fight and win, according to a new study released by a California-based research center.
From George Washington's foxhound "Drunkard" to George W. Bush's terriers "Barney" and "Miss Beazley," pets are a longtime presidential tradition for which John McCain seems well prepared, with more than a dozen of his own. According to an AP-Yahoo! News
Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA
Bond was set at $450,000 Monday for a 16-year-old boy charged in the shooting of another teen at a church that also provides shelter to girls and young women in the South Side Washington Heights neighborhood.
The vehicle of a man sought by authorities for stabbing to death his wife in a Lincolnshire hotel parking lot last weekend was found Monday in Lowell, Ind.
A man found a newborn boy wrapped in a plastic bag in the bushes next to the front door of his Uptown neighborhood apartment building and ran him to a nearby firehouse early this morning.
There is always plenty of theater at the national political conventions, but few people would liken a Barack Obama acceptance speech to a rock concert. Or would they?
Sen. Edward Kennedy is midway through a six-week course of radiation and chemotherapy treatments for brain cancer, and other than some fatigue, his wife says he's doing well.
The airplane carrying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a precautionary landing in St. Louis on Monday after the crew had a problem keeping the nose up on takeoff from Chicago.
Barack Obama says if he were president, he would not attend the openingceremonies at the Beijing Olympics unless he saw some progress betweenthe Chinese government and the Dalai Lama.
The Communications Workers of America's national executive board hassuspended the head of the union's largest local -- a New Jersey stateworker who also used to be Gov. Jon S. Corzine's girlfriend.
President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Tuesday tokeep working together on common problems, but progress appeared slow onreaching a consensus on climate change as the Group of Eight majoreconomies tackled that and other knotty global issues.
Former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher saythe next time the president goes to war, Congress should be required tosay whether it agrees.
