Aamer Madhani

An unarmed Marengo police detective was hospitalized with broken facial bones after an altercation in a DuPage County Jail interview room that an inmate said the officer provoked. The incident,...

Craig and Erin Fowles wondered what they had gotten themselves into as they returned from the central Russian city of Izhevsk last spring. The McHenry couple were traveling with two...

Captivated by Alex's picture on a Russian adoption Web site, Irma Pavlis and her husband began efforts to welcome into their family the 6-year-old boy she now is accused of...

After student criticism that Northwestern University has been slow to address a recent string of muggings and assaults, the school's president has formed an emergency task force to improve safety....

Cardinal Francis George said Sunday that before the administration of Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced the decision to move all state wards out of Maryville Academy's Des Plaines campus, he told...

The unexpected resignation of W. Deen Mohammed over the weekend leaves his estimated 2 million African-American followers at a crossroads, torn between continuing on his path of integration with mainstream...

UAL Corp., parent of United Airlines, confirmed Tuesday what many of its investors already knew: The company's stock will be worthless when it emerges from bankruptcy. The airline said that...

WITH THE 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION DIWANIYAH, Iraq--The U.S. paratroopers were wringing their hands in frustration while the 12 sheiks and civic leaders of Diwaniyah kept chattering in Arabic. "Are these...

WITH THE 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION Dr. Khalil Ibrahim had long hoped that the Baath Party regime would be ousted from his hometown. And yet, in these first days since allied...