Angela Rozas

Throughout the trial, the Northlake man accused of bludgeoning his mother to death with a hammer maintained that he had nothing to do with the crime, that he'd only discovered...

A Kane County Board candidate arrested last week on sexual assault charges died Tuesday when his vehicle slammed head-on into a concrete bridge support, Aurora police said. Brent K. Schepp,...

Erick Mendez woke about 12:30 Wednesday morning to the sound of frantic pounding on his door and horrific screams from a neighbor's son. "He said, `My little brother is burning!...

Police are interviewing two people who had a "prior relationship" with a Bartlett father of three found shot to death in his car Thursday afternoon but have not filed any...

Two men wielding BB guns were charged with armed robbery after they allegedly stole a wallet from a man early Wednesday. The two men approached the victim as he was...

An 8-year-old girl slams the front door of her family's trailer every time it rains to keep imagined floodwaters out. A 12-year-old girl prefers the heat outside to life inside...

The pavement scarcely will have cooled before Tuesday's sun is expected to drum it again, creating a day dangerous to some and uncomfortable for everyone else. For Chicago, it will...

Four teens were arrested this week for allegedly damaging a Bartlett golf course and two carts in a round of "demolition derby," police said. The teens arrested Tuesday rented the...

Near-100-degree heat that baked the Chicago area was cited as a factor in the deaths of three Cook County women and blamed for violent weather that downed hundreds of trees...

The seven men charged with plotting to blow up the Sears Tower were not members of the Moorish Science Temple of America Inc., leaders of two of the movement's temples...