Nearly every night, Martin Hornung's nightmare unfolds to the same haunting strains. Of Auschwitz. Of screaming voices. Of scenes he would rather not relive in the light of day. ...more

August 24, 2008

Susan Warren knew something was wrong the second she picked up her son April 1, 2005. ...more

August 7, 2008

Answers to one of the nation's highest profile unsolved crimes are in documents that could be released as early as this week - and help explain how the government chased the wrong suspect for years, officials said. ...more

August 3, 2008

The e-mail all week and the comments on the blog have continued to focus on the recent column on the young woman lying in a hospital bed, the victim of a horrific beating and rape outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. The event itself was awful enough, but I think it is that sense of abandonment - true or untrue - that has stirred so many of you. Here are just a few of your thoughts. ...more

June 16, 2008

Maybe I used to be better at it than I am now. I was standing there, a few feet from the hospital bed, and my emotions were churning while I was trying to sound confident and ask semi-intelligent questions at the same time. ...more

June 9, 2008

How is it that we can treat an innocent victim like this? Someone needs to tell me the answer to this one. ...more

June 8, 2008

Carmen Nunez was escorted to a dance at the Brandon Community Center recently by the same gentleman who was by her side at her 1947 high school prom - her husband of 60 years, Philip Nunez. ...more

May 23, 2008

When the National Institute of Mental Health opened the doors to its midlife clinic here in 1989, it placed a newspaper ad asking for women to volunteer as research subjects. ...more

May 21, 2008

The girlfriend of the man who killed five people and himself at Northern Illinois University said Sunday that he called her early on Valentine's Day, the day of the shooting, to say goodbye. ...more

February 18, 2008

According to the old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. For Gulfside Regional Hospice patients and their families, however, that would be an underestimation of the therapeutic benefits Marilyn Peck has brought about with her innovative use of photographs. The peers of the Gulfside social worker agree. For the second time in as many years, Peck has been honored for her photography and its use as a palliative tool in end-of-life care. ...more

February 1, 2008