An international Christian radio and television network based in West Frankfort in southern Illinois and the brother of the network’s founder were named in a federal child-sex-abuse lawsuit filed in Chicago today.

A former Carol Stream doctor lost a bid today to seal his 2005 conviction for fondling a female patient.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Chicago man accused of traveling to New England to have sex with a 15-year-old Massachusetts girl has pleaded guilty.

A former teacher at an Aurora school already serving a prison sentence for molesting a student will not be tried on two other alleged sex crimes.

FOX Chicago reports: Plainfield North High School Athletic Director Doug Stevens has resigned after an investigation began into an affair he was allegedly having with a former student.