Romance hits the Tribune, but not the hearts and flowers kid: Lou gets an unexpected offer from Susan, and Billie meets teenagers who have babies to escape from home.

A series of Skid Row stranglings turn out to have special meaning for Lou, who discovers his former doctor is now a bum, and for Rossi, who has his own reason for hating drunks.

Could an individual build an atomic bomb? Lou gets a terrifying answer when a terrorist threatens to detonate a nuclear device and provides the Tribune with detailed plans as proof.

Lou must undergo surgery for cancer.

In a news-packed day, Lou feels the pressure as he sets up coverage of a tunnel cave-in and a human fly climbing a skyscraper, knowing that a resentful Donovan has been offered a better paying job.

Rossi's investigation of radiation leaks at a chemical plant leads to a friend's death and personal peril.

The city room hears that a radical group plans to kidnap a VIP at a publishers' convention attended by Lou and other Tribune executives.

The CIA asks Lou to abandon a local espionage story; he refuses. Guest starring Laurette Spang.

A helpless old lady in a wheelchair is dumped in a county office because of a bureaucratic wrangle, and this sets the staff onto a searing Tribune expose of shoddy nursing home practices.

Rossi thinks a woman reporter is trading personal favors for political information.

A mother, obsessed with tracking the hit-and-run driver who killed her son, arouses Rossi's fighting instincts and leads to a human interest story with an unexpected payoff.

Lou investigates when Charlie fears he has lost his son to the Hare Krishna movement.

The city is thrown into panic when the Tribune's star columnist writes a column that Lou fears could incite a serial killer to strike again.

Lou tries to prevent the destruction of his friend's artwork.

After Lou sees an Immigration Department sweep of his favorite Mexican restaurant, the Tribune uncovers a grim and unsettling picture of what's happening to illegal aliens.

Lou seeks a man who foiled an assassination, then feels responsible for the resultant tragedy.

Looking for a place to invest a $5,000 windfall, Lou gets a shocking look at white collar crime when he uncovers a clever financial scheme run by a sharp con man.

The Tribune's sports department refuses to cover the UCLA football team's recruitment scandals. Lou meets unexpected resistance from a when he steps in.

Animal's erratic behavior touches off a Tribune inquiry into the plight of the all-but-forgotten Vietnam veteran who is treated much differently from servicemen in other wars.

Charlie's daughter is a passenger on a jumbo jet in trouble above Los Angeles.

Lou is stunned to learn of a high level cover-up of an arson ring and, while he's checking the report, Animal's apartment building is the next target of the firebugs.

Two stories -- one on a homeless family, and one on a politician -- take unexpected turns.

Lou's little grandson is hard of hearing, but the boy's mother can't accept it.

Lou and Charlie suspect that Mrs. Pynchon's beau, a publisher, covets the Tribune.

Rossi uncovers conflicts of interest on the staff, including Lou, and writes a story that sets off fireworks in the city room.

Billie writes a series on wife abuse and then finds it in the city room.

Billie uncovers a baby black market scandal but has to pretend Rossi is her husband to get facts for her story, and Lou winds up as referee.

Lou suspects he forced Rossi to take unnecessary risks in an in-depth story on a mental hospital.

A newspaper expert is hired to give the Tribune a new look. The result: the Tribune's best reporters are sent on a story about sex, singles and computer dating.

Lou's observation of a manslaughter trial leads him to question an elderly judge's (Barnard Hughes) mental competence.

The vacationing Lou finds himself at odds with his old boss, the crusty owner of a rural newspaper, about breaking a story that could tear the town apart.

Billie's accuracy causes her to miss a deadline; Rossi's speedy reporting yields errors.

A young woman counselor tries to make Lou understand the new and frightening trend in schools where violence has become a way of life.

Billie gets involved in a story about a gang-related barrio shooting.

Unable to face the fact that his mother is critically ill, Art Donovan puts a strain on the city room that leads Lou to give Billie an unusual assignment – death.

Lou has trouble ending his relationship with a Tribune reporter's widow.

A woman is killed and nobody cares except reporter Billie Newman, who finds that even Lou is reluctant to pursue the story of a "routine murder."

Billie probes anti-Semitic activities of an American fascist group.

Lou and Rossi stumble onto a big story but have trouble getting it together after they see an old-time mobster at a posh resort.

Lou orders "Today'' section reporter Billie off a murder story.

When reporter Billie Newman investigates the murder of a young hooker, she finds that she must change many of her ideas about the works of prostitutes.

Lou's con-artist pal (Eugene Roche) offers him an exclusive interview with a missing tycoon.

Lou has to find out why his friend and boss, Charlie Hume, behaves irrationally when the Tribune runs an expose of political torture.

A dead thief's brother orders hostage Rossi to rewrite a story about a shooting.

Lou's attempt to expose a pill-pushing doctor lands reporter Joe Rossi in jail.

Lou, fired from his TV job, leaves Minneapolis and becomes city editor on the faltering Los Angeles Tribune.