The organizers of the protest—including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale—were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most ...

This article has been republished from our archives as part of a series on the “Chicago 7” trial, in which seven people were accused of inciting a riot during the tumultuous 1968 Democratic ...

The new film is well structured, witty, and eminently watchable, but it also further reveals a filmmaker confused about the limits of performing one's civic duty. Fastcompany.com adheres to ...

Richard Allen is charged with murdering Libby German and Abby Williams while they were out on a walk in February 2017 along the Monon High Trail.

In 2020, attorneys representing a man accused of killing two Chicago police officers in 1982 made, in their view, a stunning discovery in the form of a nearly 30-year-old baptismal certificate ...

Days after the Oct. 26 shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson was publicly rebuked for issuing ...

An Ohio jury reached a verdict in the murder trial of former Columbus police officer Adam Coy in the 2020 fatal shooting of Andre Hill.

The alleged assassins behind several recent murder-for-hire cases in Los Angeles were sloppy, authorities say, leaving behind ...

Chicago police on Saturday announced they have arrested and charged a fired employee with the shooting deaths of two former ...