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Only 132 of Chicago’s 507 murders were solved last year. Why is the Chicago Police Department struggling to bring so many killers to justice?

A St. Louis entrepreneur’s brilliant idea won instant FDA approval. Eight years later, babies started dying. Was there a connection?

She rose from nothing to become the decorated head coach for women’s track and field at the University of Texas, winning six NCAA championships, sending countless athletes to the Olympics, and turning the school’s program into the country’s standard for excellence. Then Bev Kearney was abruptly forced to resign because of an illicit affair. But she didn’t get where she is by giving up without a fight.

Aboard Air Force One—during one of America’s most searing, perilous moments—a government was formed and a presidency begun.

[sub req’d] Julia Law was a pretty paralegal dating the city’s most famous defense attorney. But the story of how she ended up dead in his house in May is one of secrets and lies.