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Global economy strains loyalty in company town
As Cummins Inc., the biggest employer in Columbus, Ind., idles thousands of employees and shifts work to Mexico, China and India, townspeople are discovering that embracing progress can be a messy business.
Spain blast kills 3 terror suspects
Three suspects in the commuter train bombings in Madrid blew themselves up inside an apartment as the police prepared to assault the building Saturday night, officials said. The blast also killed one officer and wounded at least 15 others.
EPA's plan may kill off Illinois coal
The Bush administration is promising the nation's first limits on mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, but Illinois officials fear the proposals could end up boosting emissions of the toxic metal within the state.
Lawyers clash on death penalty reforms
The 1993 slayings of seven workers inside a Brown's Chicken restaurant in Palatine has always been a landmark case for its brutality and the time and resources it took to solve it. Now, it's also an indicator of how recent changes to the Illinois death penalty system are being hashed out in the courtroom.
Nugget of hope slipping away
Ever since the Mesabi Nugget pilot plant first rumbled into production here last summer, people in this isolated Lake Superior town have been keeping their fingers crossed.
