Two men have died and at least eight other people were wounded in shootings since Sunday afternoon, police said.

A search plane has spotted the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger plane that went missing with 54 people on board, smoke still billowing from it in a rugged area in eastern Papua province, rescue officials said Monday.

The Army parachutist injured during a weekend jump at the Chicago Air & Water Show died Sunday afternoon, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

In a gesture of German goodwill, the administration in this medieval city leased a newly renovated apartment building here to humanely - even comfortably - house dozens of desperate asylum-seekers. The newcomers from Syria and other war-ravaged nat...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants more than a wall to keep out immigrants living in the country illegally. He also wants to end "birthright citizenship" for their children, he said Sunday. And he would rescind Obama administratio...

Very warm and muggy weather will continue across the Chicago area Monday as temperatures flirt once again with the 90-degree mark. A slow-moving frontal system approaching from the northwest should trigger some showers and thunderstorms by afternoo...

When Cubs second baseman Starlin Castro dropped an easy throw to botch a force out Sunday at U.S. Cellular Field, you almost could hear the cries from Clark and Addison.

Actor Morgan Freeman is mourning the death of his granddaughter. She was found stabbed to death Sunday on a Manhattan street.

Chicago police are asking for the public's help in finding a 17-year-old girl who went missing eight days ago from the South Side's Bronzeville neighborhood.

The email that Chicago attorney Beau Brindley allegedly sent to an associate about the upcoming testimony of a client had the innocuous subject line "Burnett cross."