Andrew Martin

Even more than a white Christmas, every retailer loves a green Thanksgiving weekend. So consider the palpable panic that hit Chicago-area merchants like a blast of winter when they threw...

Two local men were arrested over the weekend for allegedly running an illegal gambling operation out of their truck, authorities said Monday. Jack Foreman, 59, and Robert Powers, 23, each...

Two jurors were chosen and 16 other people were rejected Monday in the first day of jury selection in the trial of accused killer Juan Rivera. The reasons the 16...

A 24-year-old machinist mate was arrested and is expected to be charged with murdering a Waukegan woman in a residential area at the military base, Navy authorities said Tuesday. Anthony...

A 2-year-old boy was killed Tuesday evening when he was accidentally struck by a tow truck. Zachari Mumma of 26101 Forest Ave., near Antioch, was pronounced dead shortly after he...

A chief petty officer from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center was indicted for murder Wednesday in the beating death of his former wife, whose body was found in a...

Police were investigating Monday the cause of an accident in which a 23-year-old woman was killed after her car drove off U.S. Highway 45 into a soybean field. Cheryl Monroe...

A Hawthorn Woods man was killed this week when he rear-ended another car, then crashed into the side of a gas station in an unincorporated area near Kildeer, police said....

A local man who was wanted for questioning in a Palatine rape killed himself Tuesday after his house was surrounded by police. Stephen R. Seger, 26, shot himself twice in...

The trial of murder defendant Juan Rivera has been delayed again, this time until Nov. 1. At a hearing Thursday, Lake County Judge Christopher Starck said he delayed the trial...