Forensics expert disputes Vaughn’s account of shootings
A prosecution forensics expert on Monday disputed Christopher Vaughn's account of the day he says his wife shot him, killed their three children and then killed herself inside the family...
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Peterson lawyers seek dismissal of lawsuit
Just days after a jury found Drew Peterson guilty of murdering his third wife, defense lawyers filed a motion Monday to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against the former Bolingbrook...
After conviction, Peterson lawyers ask judge to toss lawsuit
Just days after a jury found him guilty of murdering his third wife, lawyers for Drew Peterson filed a motion this morning to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against the...
After conviction, Peterson lawyers ask judge to toss lawsuit
Just days after a jury found him guilty of murdering his third wife, lawyers for Drew Peterson filed a motion this morning to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against the...
Peterson’s police pension may be challenged
Drew Peterson could lose his $79,000 annual pension from the Bolingbrook Police Department as a result of the guilty verdict in his murder trial. Under state law governing public employee...
Peterson neighbors react to verdict
Less than an hour after jurors announced a guilty verdict in Drew Peterson's murder trial, news trucks lined the cul-de-sac outside his home in the Pheasant Chase subdivision in Bolingbrook....
Jobless rate rebounding in south suburbs
On a recent weekday, Bud Sheedy had to put in a call for more than a dozen extra Teamsters to drive loads of concrete from the Prairie Material's Manteno plant...
Prosecutors: Tinley Park man charged with hate crime in attack on black worker
A Tinley Park man was charged with a felony hate crime for allegedly attacking a man who had been hired by a bank to maintain a neighbor's foreclosed home Sunday....
No bond for teen held in laundromat killing
A Cook County judge has ordered a 17-year-old who allegedly shot another teen as the victim's mother and younger brother watched to be held without bond. Wearing shorts and a...
Man stabs grandmother’s boyfriend to death, prosecutors say
Prosecutors say Julian Williams, 21, stabbed his grandmother's boyfriend to death as the boyfriend talked on the phone with Williams' grandmother Thursday in Marquette Park. Williams was at his grandmother's...