CHICAGO, April 21 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Chicago ruled Tuesday former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich cannot go to Costa Rica to film a reality television show.

CHICAGO, April 14 (UPI) -- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded innocent Tuesday in federal court in Chicago at his arraignment on criminal corruption charges.

WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) -- Chief Justice John Roberts has appointed two new judges to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, according to the Federation of American Scientists.

CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Mitchell Mars, who won some of the biggest mob cases in Chicago but shunned publicity, has died of lung cancer at the age of 55.

CHICAGO, July 9 (UPI) -- The presiding judge in Chicago's Family Secrets mob trial has had to order one of the defense attorneys to stop contributing to an Internet blog.

CHICAGO, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Reputed Chicago mob enforcer Joey "The Clown" Lombardo appeared clean-shaven in federal court Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to conspiracy. Lombardo, 77, had been on the run for nine months after he was indicted in April with 13 others in an alleged consp

CHICAGO, June 7 (UPI) -- A Florida inmate who has led police on wild goose chases before claims to have inside information on a Chicago mob-related homicide.