MANCHESTER, Ill. — The nephew of a small-town Illinois mayor shot and killed five people, including two boys, before leading police on a chase t...
UPDATE: 12:54 p.m. -- The victims have been identified as "a grandmother, a young couple and their two small children, 1 and 5," according to the Chic...
CHICAGO — His wife described him as a good man _ when he was clean and sober _ and his attorney said he was a model client who showed up at a re...
In the aftermath of the shooting last week on another college campus, I am reminded of a common response to such horrors: to pray and seek solace from...
MADISON, Wis. — The online gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter said it was an unnerving coincidence that he also sold hand...
DEKALB, Ill. — Steven Kazmierczak had the look of a boyish graduate student _ except for the disturbing tattoos that covered his arms. Professo...
Gun control is still not an issue. Will the fact that a kid on medication could purchase guns, walk into a lecture hall and use them change that? That will depend -- on whether the candidates make it an issue, and on whether the media asks them about it.
After another campus shooting, this time in his home state of Illinois, Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama offered thoughts and prayers for the vi...
TINLEY PARK, Ill. — A gunman fatally shot five women in a robbery at a store in a suburban Chicago strip mall before fleeing Saturday, leading p...
