Andrew Martin

Four Waukegan youths have been arrested as part of a teen car-theft ring that stole at least seven cars in the surrounding area, police said Wednesday. The youths, age 14...

A Kenosha man was killed early Wednesday when he tried to pass three other cars on a frost-slicked road in unincorporated Lake County and skidded into a tree. Rickey Wright,...

A Waukegan police officer thwarted a 44-year-old man`s attempt to hang himself in the city jail, authorities said Wednesday. James Derossitte, of Waukegan, was in the lockup early Monday after...

The city`s flamboyant and sometimes controversial mayor, Haig Paravonian, officially announced Sunday that he would seek re-election, marking the start of what promises to be a hotly contested race. Paravonian...

Although it`s been two years since Dwayne was released from prison, life hasn`t gotten much better for him. He rummages through trash cans in downtown Chicago, hoping to find something...

A 17-year-old Milwaukee youth died over the weekend from a gunshot he suffered while playing a game of Russian roulette with a handgun at the Lake Forest oasis on the...

One man has been arrested and two others are being sought in a weekend shooting on Chicago`s West Side that left one Lake County man dead and another seriously injured....

Holly Staker`s killer allegedly came upon his victim by chance as she played outside with a pair of toddlers on a warm August night. Police said he approached and briefly...

It had all the makings of a gruesome Halloween mystery: strange mounds of odds and ends, including a few animal carcasses, piled neatly at various locations across town. The piles...

A homeless man was killed by a hit-and-run motorist Tuesday morning after he apparently wandered into the middle of traffic on U.S. Highway 41 in Lake Bluff. Paul Danovich, 51,...