Jeff Long

Marni Yang had a history of harassing romantic rivals years before she was charged this week with killing Shaun Gayle's pregnant girlfriend, authorities said Thursday. Over the years Yang sent threatening messages to several of Gayle's girlfriends and to...

A Wilmette man who police say shot his wife and her teenage son to death Monday before taking his own life had spent 15 years behind bars for the murder of his previous spouse in Chicago. The prosecutor in that case said Monday that he always feared...

The popular adviser for the Stevenson High School newspaper will resign the post next year because of changes administrators made to the journalism program after a controversial issue detailed teenage sex life, student staff members said Tuesday. The...

Eight months after his release from prison in 2000 for killing his wife, Richard Wiley married a popular secretary at the Wilmette church he had attended since childhood—despite misgivings from the minister who performed the ceremony. Kathryn Motes...

A child's body was found in a vehicle on Chicago's West Side this morning and police are investigating if it is that of Julian King, the missing nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson. The Cook County medical examiner's office has sent...

by Jeff Long and Christi Parsons In a Father's Day address heavy with personal and political meaning, Democrat Barack Obama told worshipers at a Chicago church tpday that government must do more to help families, but he also exhorted parents--especially.....

After years of incremental preparations for what once seemed the remote chance of an attack with biological or chemical weapons, Illinois emergency agencies have launched urgent efforts to strengthen their plans. Galvanized by the Sept. 11 terrorist...

From his start as one of Gov. Richard Ogilvie's "whiz kids" to his membership on the Metra board and lucrative posts with the Illinois State Medical Society, Donald Udstuen has been a behind-the-scenes force in state Republican politics for more than...

A threat against the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania turned out to be bogus, officials decided Thursday morning--after the scare had shut down three nearby airports for several hours. The incident underscores the heightened level of...

A father who left a simple note for his wife and children, expecting to return from a quick business trip. A husband whose oddly calm words are captured on an answering machine, saying his plane had been hijacked and he loved his family. A flight...

A firefighter whose family has been touched by tragedy before, a Navy employee who walked the halls of the Pentagon passing out candy, and a flight attendant pulling a substitute shift--these were among the lives taken in Tuesday's attack. Jean Roger It...

Along with their enormous effects on the nation, the attacks last week are defined by things much more personal. A 10-year-old girl lost her father. A couple lost both their children--a daughter and a son. At the end of a week marked by the terror...