Actor Dennis Farina, a former Chicago policeman who played a TV cop on Law & Order during his wide-ranging career, has died at the age of 69.

With no signs of trauma and nothing to raise suspicions, the sudden death of a Chicago man just as he was about to collect nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings was initially ruled a result of natural causes.

Charlie Sheen is moving out of Sober Valley Lodge and into a house on the same street as Paris Hilton.

A written bomb threat was discovered on a flight from Seattle to Chicago, prompting US aviation officials to temporarily close Midway Airport.

SENATOR Edward Kennedy’s nephew William Kennedy Smith, acquitted of rape in Florida in 1991, has been accused of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant five years ago in a lawsuit filed by the woman.

THE scandals rocking the Roman Catholic Church in the United States are not only about paedophile abuse at parish level, or about covering up at a higher level, but also abuse at the highest level.

The Chicago Police Department has apologised for issuing an alert that described a man suspected in a series of sexual asaualts as resembling hip-hop artist and actor Ice Cube.

The Chicago Police Department has apologised for issuing an alert that described a man suspected in a series of sexual assaults as resembling hip-hop artist and actor Ice Cube.

THE BODY of an Irishman shot dead as he walked along a street in Chicago was flown home yesterday morning ahead of a funeral service in his local South Dublin church tomorrow.

CHICAGO police have denied media reports that detectives investigating the murder of an Irish actor in the city last weekend had arrested a suspect.

UNITED STATES police have launched a murder investigation following the cold-blooded shooting of a Dublin man, who moved to Chicago six years ago to make his name as an actor.

A 27-year-old aspiring Irish actor was shot in the head in a seemingly random attack in Chicago, police said.

IN a threat still considered uncorroborated, intelligence sources overseas informed the FBI that hospitals in four US cities could be the targets of terrorists, Fox News has confirmed.

These are tough times for the Chicago Police Department.