The 29-year-old Chinese immigrant and IT worker was driving home from his second job at a Far South Side restaurant Sunday night when an allegedly drunk, off-duty suburban cop veered across the median on the Stevenson Expressway and crashed into him head

Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children.

Two emergency medical technicians accused of refusing to help a dying pregnant woman are "inhuman," her mother said Tuesday as a lawyer for the EMTs argued his clients are being vilified in a rush to judgment.

The Associated Press reports that actress Brittany Murphy was declared dead Sunday morning at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

TYLER, Texas -- A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree.

The state's Native American tribes, universities and local governments are some beneficiaries of appropriations bills that lawmakers have hustled to approve in recent days over the objections of conservatives

Chicago police today issued an alert for a 15-year-old girl missing from Freeport, Ill., who was last seen in Chicago Wednesday

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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - Navajo silversmith Jackie Platero has been selling her family's handmade jewelry for 18 years. These past two years have been the most difficult. Platero and other jewelers and jewelry traders say the nation's economic woes

SALT LAKE CITY -- Three Navajo tribe members charged with a vicious beating and sexual assault were ordered Monday to remain in custody because they pose a danger to the community