Meet Joanne Zienty, 2014 winner of the Soon to Be Famous Illinois Author Contest, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the Dundee Library. To register, call (847) 428.3661 (press 3) or visit frvpld.info. Zienty's book, "The Things We Save," was select...

For most of human history, the best hope for a person without a Ph.D. or white lab coat to contribute to scientific research was to end up with his or her skull on a shelf for real scientists to study. Sometimes college kids and retired folks with t...

Suburban ceremonies recall loss of 9/11 A number of suburban communities held Sept. 11 remembrance ceremonies Thursday on the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. “I've been asked why we do this each year,” said Schaumburg Fire Lt. John S...

A South Carolina man charged with killing his five children was kicked out of his house as a teen and lived with a Carpentersville family for about six months in 2001, two of those family members said Friday. David Christie said his nephew was good ...

The South Carolina man accused of killing his five children and dumping their bodies in Alabama went on a McHenry County crime spree 13 years ago. Timothy R. Jones, 32, was convicted on a host of offenses, including car theft, burglary and forging n...

Richard Schmelzer, who is charged in the stabbing death of his 85-year-old East Dundee grandmother, is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 17, court records show. Schmelzer, 41, was extradited from Texas Tuesday. He is being held at the Kane County j...

The racial makeup of suburban police departments does not reflect the diversity of the communities those agencies serve. That's according to figures from a 2007 study of American police forces by the U.S. Department of Justice that showed 16 of the ...