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Durango's Fort Lewis College was once a boarding school that used severe methods to "civilize" Indigenous children.

While the charges against Gene Cassano and Gioacchino Galione dont mention the mob, records show the underlying investigation specifically targeted the Chicago Outfit.

The first objection in the recent extortion trial of Addison businessman Gene “Gino” Cassano came about five seconds into opening statements, when a prosecutor mentioned the term “juice loan.” Three days later, the proceedings abruptly ended in a mistrial after an FBI agent testified he was assigned to investigate “organized crime,” a term the judge had explicitly barred to avoid prejudicing ...

A 2023 report by History Colorado found Native boarding schools cut children's hair, renamed them and punished them for speaking Indigenous languages.

A former high-ranking city official was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday for helping to conceal a multiyear embezzlement scheme that led to the failure of Washington Federal Bank for Savings, a family-run institution that had been a mainstay in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood for more than a century. William Mahon, 57, pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to falsify bank records ...

William Mahon, who served under Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel and Lori Lightfoot, served on the board of the crooked Chicago bank.

Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters clearly recalls his doctor’s sobering assessment of his bladder cancer diagnosis in August 2022.

Cancer is one of the most expensive categories of disease to treat in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Most private and federal health insurance programs require patients to secure preapprovals for certain treatments, tests, or prescription medications. But critics say prior authorization has become a tool that insurers use to restrict or delay expensive care.

'For them to take weeks -- up to months -- to provide an authorization is ridiculous'