Andrew Martin

A 26-year-old man and his 4-year-old stepson were killed over the weekend, apparently after the car they were riding in had a blowout in Gurnee. Charles Nichols, who was homeless,...

''What`s up, man?'' was all the kid in the hooded jacket said as he put a pistol to the temple of De Mon Topps. The chubby 13-year-old never had a...

A 19-year-old Waukegan man was clinging to life late Monday after he was beaten with a tire iron and stabbed in the chest during a brawl with about 15 other...

A month after a Lake County judge ruled their church may be dissolved, members of the Mt. Sinai Institutional Baptist Church in North Chicago notified the Illinois Appellate Court in...

A Waukegan man is suing the Police Department and three officers, claiming he was ''falsely and maliciously'' arrested. David Simonsen, 38, filed the suit last week in Lake County Circuit...

A 23-year-old Island Lake man apparently has decided not to prosecute his younger sister, who told police she stole a valuable baseball card from her brother and sold it for...

Kristene Hooper thought her apartment was on fire a month or so ago. It turned out to be nothing, but fire inspectors suggested the apartment would be safer if there...

U.S. Senate candidates Carol Moseley Braun and Richard Williamson took divergent approaches in their appeals to voters Sunday. During a speech to some 100 people at a north suburban synagogue,...

A country club has upped its reward to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who killed an 11-year-old baby-sitter last month. Midlane Country Club, where the...

Katherine Jeziorski is 69 years old, has no teeth and speaks with a Polish accent. She is also a paranoid schizophrenic and has diabetes, requiring daily insulin injections. For the...