In his new book, Jeff Amestoy outlines the case against John Winters and how and why Clarence Darrow came to argue on his ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other state and local officials gathered Tuesday for the official grand opening of Plattsburgh’s new bus factory and what they hope will be a new era for manufacturing ...

The Baxters had only lived there a short time when the man they called "Big Doc" tapped on the side door. "Herbert is still ...

In this 1992 column from the Free Press archive, Neal Rubin talks to the owners of the historical home of Dr. Ossian Sweet ...

Sweet, his friends and family protected themselves against a White mob at their Detroit home in 1925. Someone inside the home ...

Nathan Leopold had planned to visit Paris in the summer of 1924. Instead, he and Richard Loeb found themselves behind bars and on trial for the murder of Bobby Franks, their neighbor in Kenwood, an ...

Famed trial attorney Clarence Darrow and lawyer-orator William Jennings Bryan faced off in court in what’s known as the “Scopes Monkey Trial.” ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

In his place is Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), the first superstar lawyer in the United States, perhaps most famous for the "Scopes monkey trial" of 1925, in which he defended a public school instructor ...