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Andy Hale talks with Adam Mendler about his career.

Andy Hale, producer and filmmaker, joins Indisputable to discuss his documentary “A Murder In The Park” with Dr. Rashad Richey.

The first step that each of us can take to proactively help heal our country is for each of us to become better listeners. This first step is a simple one but also a very powerful one. It seems like today there is so much noise, so much shouting, so much frustration and anger....

Evanston aldermen last week unanimously approved paying $90,000 to settle a lawsuit brought against the city and the police chief after old police booking photos were posted on the social media app Snapchat. The settlement was approved...

Civil Rights Attorney Andy Hale speaks with Adrienne Lawrence on The Conversation about wrongful convictions in the United States.

Yolanda Woods filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this month against three law enforcement officers involved in a drug raid that ended with her daughter struck 10 times by gunfire while lying on a bed. Alteria Woods – who was not the target of the March 19, 2017 narcotics probe – was...

A River North restaurant and nightclub, responding to a lawsuit by a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted in an alley outside the business, has raised a potential defense in court papers that the woman was as much as 50% or more...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A second woman says she was the victim of a sexual assault connected to River North bar El Hefe. Liz Capra spoke about the incident with her attorneys Monday morning. She said she was drugged at El Hefe, then raped, in 2014. "Part of me of course wants it to be over. Just...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A woman who won a trip to Chicago says that weekend ended abruptly when she ended up in a local hospital after a sexual assault with her memory erased. Now she is suing the River North bar where she last remembers being before the assault. Surveillance video released by her attorneys shows...

What would Honest Abe say — is this death photo of him that went unnoticed for 150 years real or fake? The image is eerie — with all the Lincoln trademarks, the gaunt face and famous beard. The right eye is slightly bulging, indicative of some disfigurement — or wound. Some experts say it’s a long-lost...

A female professional wrestler was choked and forced to perform oral sex upon another wrestler after an event in southwest suburban Summit in 2018, a new lawsuit alleges. Samantha Tavel — who wrestled under the stage name “Candi Cartwright” — alleges that World Wrestling Entertainment’s Matt Riddle forced her to perform the sex...

CHAMPAIGN — Pending council approval next week, the city of Champaign has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a 16-year-old who claimed he was arrested with excessive force for $74,500. Tavion Jones-Premo, now 18, alleged that he was grabbed and forced to the ground when he was arrested Dec. 28, 2018. “The settlement the...