Carpentersville residents Melissa Bodzioch and Erika Kyle won the ultimate summer prize recently. The pair won enough ice cream to feed 200 of their neighbors thanks to Edy's Slow-Churned Ice Cream Neighborhood Salute. Edy's supplied 24 1.75-quart t...

Volunteers To submit a listing, e-mail tricity@dailyherald.com. Literacy Volunteers Fox ValleyÅ’will hold training sessions in July for people who want to help adults read, write and speak English more effectively. The six-session training will be...

The lone juror whose vote spared Juan Luna's life in the Brown's Chicken trial last week is praying for the families of seven people slain in a Palatine restaurant 14 years ago. "She prays for God to help those families. Her heart really goes out to...

For five weeks, they've sat in the same chairs and listened to tearful testimony and gruesome details of the bloody case. They couldn't sleep. They couldn't see their families for days at a time. They couldn't live their normal lives. All the while,...

Just like the victims' families and just like the jurors who ultimately decided the fate of Juan Luna, people living in Palatine are divided when it comes to whether the man convicted of the Brown's Chicken murders should have received the death pen...

Juan Luna wept openly in court Tuesday as the youngest daughter of the Brown's Chicken owners confronted him about the brutal slaying of her parents and five of their employees. "How could you have such little respect for life?" Joy Ehlenfeldt asked...

Juan Luna wept openly in court Tuesday as the youngest daughter of the Brown's Chicken owners confronted him about the brutal slaying of her parents and five of their employees. "How could you have such little respect for life?" Joy Ehlenfeldt asked...

In a rare display of mid-trial unity Tuesday, Juan Luna's relatives joined the family of one his victims outside the Cook County courthouse Tuesday morning to protest the convicted killer's possible execution. Mary Jane Crow, whose brother Michael ...

Juan Luna was found eligible for the death penalty Tuesday morning by a Cook County jury. Luna was convicted last Thursday of the murders of seven people at a Brown's Chicken restaurant in Palatine on Jan. 8, 1993. The jury could not reach unanimous...

Juan Luna's relatives joined one of his victim's families outside the Cook County courthouse Tuesday morning to protest the death penalty. Mary Jane Crow, whose brother Michael Castro suffered the most bullet wounds in the 1993 Brown's Chicken murd...