CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois police say they are investigating the birth and death of a baby in a campus dormitory.

A woman who allegedly placed her newborn son in a plastic bag and hid him under a pile of towels still wants to keep the

Mubashra Uddin has been depressed since she was accused of dropping her newborn baby from a window of her family’s eighth-floor Uptown apartment, her lawyers said in court Thursday.

A 19-year-old Chicago woman is facing charges of dropping her newborn daughter from an eighth-floor window in Uptown, killing the baby, because she feared discovery

It’s a familiar story: unwanted babies abandoned out on the street or worse. What we don’t often hear about are the babies safely surrendered under Illinois’s “safe haven” law.

Mubashra Uddin, 19, was charged with first-degree murder. She’s accused of dropping her newborn baby out of an eighth-floor window of her family’s apartment in

Through the emergency room in a Ukrainian Village hospital was awake and bustling around 3 a.m. Tuesday, a newborn girl was left alone around the

MARION — Hoping to adopt a child, Margie R. signed up at her local Children and Family Services’ department and was later encouraged to add

The signs are posted at hospitals and fire stations: The figure of a hand cradling a baby is enclosed in the outline of a blue