Rogers Worthington

The father and uncle of a 9-year-old Arlington Heights boy who was hospitalized after ingesting cocaine were charged Friday after police said they found undisclosed quantities of cocaine, marijuana and...

Employees at U.S. Robotics received virtually no advance news of the company's sale to 3Com Corp., and expressed fear about what the merger might mean for their job security. "I'm...

Early this year, Joanne Vanish Creighton left behind a career as a teacher, literary scholar and administrator in the world of co-educational universities to take the helm of Mt. Holyoke...

The Illinois Institute of Technology on Thursday announced a record-setting $120 million donation that one outside observer described as "a stunning gift." The $120 million--from corporate giants Robert and Jay...

Jay Severson's job at Purdue University was resident adviser, a storied position at colleges that in the past called to mind the alternately avuncular and gruff grad student who lived...

His speeches still have that distinctive rapid-fire delivery, and his trademark east Texas accent still resonates like a bee in the ear. But four years after his last political outing,...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that had struck down a race-based admissions plan at the University of Texas' law...

Through his center's Klanwatch Project and, more recently, its Militia Task Force, Morris Dees has been tracking racist and far-Right paramilitary groups since 1980. He argues that groups like the...

Mayor Richard Daley is expected to sit down early this week with Chicago City Colleges Chairman Ronald Gidwitz to talk about the decision to cancel preregistration for the fall, a...

The staff of the Northwestern Chronicle will have to hold their staff meetings in the student lounge and head for a private shop to do their photocopying if student government...