LONG SKID BEFORE BUS CRASH: COPS
The Chicago Transit Authority bus that barreled into a car and killed seven Joliet area young people last week was traveling so fast that it left hundreds of feet of...
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U.S. SEEKS END TO POLICE, FIRE QUOTAS IN CITY
The U.S. Justice Department filed a motion Tuesday in U.S. District Court here challenging a court-imposed quota system that governs promotions to the rank of lieutenant in the Chicago Police...
DOTSON HEARING MAY BE THE TICKET
Trying to ride the crest of popular opinion always is tricky, but Gov. James Thompson has proved to be a master during his eight years in office. That mastery will...
MYSTERY DEEPENS IN WEBB RAPE CASE
The story told by Cathleen Crowell Webb and her attorney was presented to the world as a modern-day morality play: A young woman purges herself of a horrible lie and...
LIE ABOUT RAPE PUTS REAL VICTIMS ON TRIAL
Last Wednesday, on the eve of Catherine Crowell Webb`s courtroom recantation, closing arguments were being heard in another rape trial in Cook County Circuit Court, that of Rodney Willis, a...
WOMAN GOES PUBLIC TO UNDO RAPE `LIE`
A New Hampshire housewife who said her conscience made her recant a rape charge that has kept a man imprisoned for six years gave a series of interviews Thursday to...
BLOCK MOURNS FIRE VICTIM WHO BEFRIENDED KIDS, STRAYS
As buses and car-pool station wagons brought the children of North Avers Avenue home from school Tuesday, the kids began gathering, with a certain solemnity, on the steps of 5111...
A SECOND CHANCE FOR RICKY
Several years ago a boyhood friend of Ricky Hosea`s was paralyzed in a car accident and taken to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago for therapy. Hosea visited him, and remembers...