Amanda Vogt

Police were searching Tuesday for clues to the recent disappearance of a 25-foot-tall, 150-pound snowman balloon from the intersection of Illinois Highway 60 and Milwaukee Avenue. Sometime early Sunday, someone...

Waukegan police were searching Thursday for two men who robbed a currency exchange clerk at knife-point in the 3000 block of Lewis Avenue, authorities said. Two suspects wearing ski masks...

Officers from the Vernon Hills Police Department will be on hand Thursday morning at Hawthorne Junior High School to allay the fears of pupils and parents after a pupil allegedly...

A 30-year-old Highland Park man has been charged with molesting a friend's 8-year-old daughter, authorities said Monday. Carlos Pineda, of the 1400 block of Lincoln Place, was arrested late Sunday...

The Hawthorn Woods Village Board has selected a 30-year veteran of the Illinois State Police to serve as its new police chief. Michael J. Sliozis, 52, of Libertyville, who has...

A visit scheduled for Tuesday to the North Chicago VA Medical Center by a delegation of congressional staffers has fueled speculation that the imperiled facility may yet be saved, according...

A Lake County judge on Tuesday sentenced an Antioch teenager convicted of molesting a 12-year-old girl to 15 months of work release in the Lake County jail and 30 months...

A 36-year-old Round Lake woman has died of injuries she suffered after an approaching vehicle struck a deer and catapulted it through the windshield of her car. Suzanna D. Hollingshead,...

A Lake County jury this week awarded a 32-year-old Chicago woman nearly $3 million in damages for injuries she suffered in a 1997 auto accident, one of the largest personal...

A duck hunter got a surprise Wednesday morning when he discovered an unexploded pipe bomb near a duck blind outside his home in unincorporated Antioch. The hunter, who police declined...