Robbery defendant charged with threatening witness
A Southwest Side man due in court this week on robbery charges will also face charges for threatening a witness in his case. Ahnmad Artis, 32, of the 3800 block...
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Man charged in 2 Red Line robberies
A 35-year-old Evanston man tried to negotiate with a group of four men who stole his iPod while on a Red Line train, and was robbed of another $30 for...
Packs of ‘fence-jumpers’ rush Lollapalooza
The record-setting attendance for this year's Lollapalooza music festival got an un-official -- and unwanted --- boost from hundreds of brazen gate-crashers. This was not the first time groups of...
What was it about this guy?
Believe it or not, sitting through a racketeering trial can get a little dull. In a racketeering case, there is a lot of listening to more or less inane wiretaps,...
Feds: Couple hid taxes, gave out weight-loss drugs illegally
A Tinley Park couple who operated weight-loss clinics faces federal drug and tax evasion charges for allegedly providing prescription weight-loss drugs to patients without performing physicals and not paying some...
Mob thief gets 15 years but asks: ‘Where is the injured party?’
Anthony Volpendesto, a mob-connected thief who fled armed robberies on bicycles, was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison on racketeering charges.Volpendesto didn't deny his role in dozens of...
Lightning strikes several area homes
Pat Carr, the director of Tinley Park's Emergency Management Agency, was out monitoring Tuesday night's storm when his home became one of at least six in the Chicago area to...
Off-duty cop shot on South Side in good condition
An off-duty Chicago police officer was in good condition after suffering a graze wound from a shooting on the South Side, officials said. The 43-year-old male police officer was taken...
Going to Bears Ground Zero to write about the end of the NFL lockout
The news was momentous: Suddenly, the NFL season was back on. For the Chicago Bears and the team's fans, that put Ground Zero for the story on Bourbonnais, the small...
Prosecutors: Taxi robber left ID in cab
Leaving your ID in the back of a cab can be an inconvenient mistake, especially if it was a cab you just robbed. Prosecutors allege Antonio Crawford, 29, offered up...