CHICAGO (WLS) -- A federal judge delayed former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's sentencing. His attorneys painted a very bleak picture of his health in court Thursday. They said he nearly died ...

Hastert confronted by sister of wrestling team manager: "I know your secret." — -- In Steve Reinboldt’s 1970 high school yearbook, wrestling coach Dennis Hastert wrote that Steve was his “great, ...

CHICAGO, IL -- Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, awaiting sentencing in a hush-money case, had a stroke during the first week of November and has been hospitalized since then, his attorney ...

Dennis Hastert does not plan to appeal the 15-month prison sentence handed down in a dramatic court hearing late last month, his lead attorney told the Chicago Sun-Times. May 12, 2016 National ...

A Montana woman says the FBI interviewed her last month about her allegations that her brother was sexually abused while in high school by Dennis Hastert, the wrestling coach who would become speaker ...

The crime with which federal prosecutors have charged former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., is an obscure, dubious federal banking law that could just as easily be used to go after innocent ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The man who was paid $3.5 million in hush money by former Illinois Congressman Dennis Hastert was a student at the school where Hastert worked at the time the alleged sexual ...

Speaking to hundreds of supporters outside the Kendall County Courthouse in his northern Illinois district, Hastert thanked staff, supporters and voters who helped keep him in office for 20 years.

Kevin McCarthy was just the latest in a series of Republican speakers and speaker wannabes who faced revolts. Speaker Mike Johnson should take note. By Carl Hulse The current chaos is not the first ...