Andrew Martin

A birthday gag turned disastrous over the weekend when trick birthday cake candles that had been discarded started a fire that gutted a split-level home, fire officials said. No one...

Two people were injured and three families left homeless Sunday in North Chicago after an early-morning fire swept through an apartment building. The fire started in the second-floor apartment of...

A Lake County sheriff's deputy said Monday that he might have suffered more serious injuries during a weekend fight but for several tavern patrons who came to his aid. Lt....

A 17-year-old Buffalo Grove woman was transferred to the neurological wing of a Milwaukee hospital Tuesday, where she remains in critical condition from injuries sustained in a weekend traffic accident....

A former employee of a Mundelein tavern was in custody Sunday after a janitor told police he had found the man rifling through the bar's office when he arrived for...

The state's attorney has decided not to pursue an investigation of former Lindenhurst Police Chief Richard Jablonski, who was accused of threatening colleagues and misappropriating funds. Lake County State's Atty....

Two men were being held in Lake County Jail on Tuesday, a day after being charged with robbing a Waukegan gas station. Michael Williams, 24, of Waukegan, and Craig Rice,...

Investigators of the massacre at the Brown's Chicken & Pasta in Palatine are examining whether a recent series of armed robberies at suburban stores and restaurants might reveal a clue...

It snowed Sunday in Palatine. All the rest is speculation. What really happened at the Brown's Chicken & Pasta in town remained a grim mystery early Monday, some 48 hours...

After a weeklong investigation, fire officials have determined that a metal chimney apparently was the cause of a fire that gutted a Mettawa horse stable on Christmas Eve. The metal...