Andrew Martin

A Chicago woman who wrote a bogus check and later flushed it down a toilet at the Bloomingdale Police Department was sentenced to 18 months' probation, authorities said Tuesday. Latonia...

A gang member convicted of first-degree murder will get a new trial because he was denied his constitutional right to effective legal counsel, according to a ruling by the Illinois...

Richard Eitel called his mother at work the morning after he allegedly beat a 5-year-old neighbor and confessed, "I've done some bad stuff." But Eitel, a 32-year-old from unincorporated Naperville,...

Prosecutors are planning to ask the state Appellate Court to reconsider a recent decision that banned three secretly recorded conversations from the upcoming trial of James Kelly, charged with murder...

Law enforcement authorities made a plea to the public Wednesday for any information that could help them identify the torso of a woman found along a Bensenville roadway. DuPage County...

A 35-year-old man who was the first person in DuPage to be convicted of stalking has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for bothering the same woman again. James...

Emil Lockett of Lombard said he had heard strange noises in the apartment upstairs for a couple of days, scuffling noises that sounded like youngsters romping on the floor. Early...

Garry Huff, the Glendale Heights man who shot his estranged wife repeatedly and burned her remains in a 55-gallon drum, was spared the death penalty Monday and sentenced to 80...

It began at 8:30 a.m. Friday as a chance encounter in the commuter parking lot of the Naperville train station. Richard Nieves, a 21-year-old machine operator from Aurora, told police...

Jim Allen said his group of friends is known as the Wolfpack because he has always liked wolves. The group members branded one another with red-hot metal paint stirrers to...