Couple’s finances probed in slaying
The girlfriend of a Villa Park woman found slain in the trunk of a car at her home may have had financial reasons for the killing, prosecutors said Thursday. Judge...
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20 years for pupil abuse
A former Berwyn band teacher, who admitted Thursday that he acted out his sexual fantasies by tying up and inappropriately touching young girls in his classrooms, was sentenced to 20...
Mental tests for girl’s dad
DuPage County prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed Monday to examine the mental health of a Clarendon Hills man charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 8-year-old daughter last...
Accuser’s parents lash out
Days after a Cook County jury acquitted a second man on sex charges, the parents of the young woman whose alleged rape was captured on videotape blasted a criminal justice...
Judge backs down in rape trial
A Cook County judge backed off Wednesday after triggering a furor with a warning that he might lock up a woman for refusing to watch a videotape showing her alleged...
Toll-fine notice led man to dump glue, jury told
A Downers Grove man who DuPage prosecutors contend dumped a bottle of glue into a tollway coin collection machine had recently received a notice that he was being fined for...
Sheriff recruits 2nd dog to sniff out explosives
When the time came to draft a new staffer to protect the DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton, Sheriff John Zaruba sniffed up the right tree. Zaruba has recruited Utah, a...
Sheriff recruits 2nd dog for force
When the time came to draft a new canine staffer to protect the DuPage County Courthouse, Sheriff John Zaruba sniffed up the right tree. Zaruba has recruited Utah, a 2-year-old...
`Dead Man Walking’ nun visits school
Sister Helen Prejean, a national advocate for ending the death penalty, recently addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Elmhurst College's Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel. Prejean, the nun made famous by the movie...
$1 million bail set in newborn’s death in Itasca
The 34-year-old Chicago woman accused of discarding her newborn daughter in a trash receptacle at an Itasca packaging plant Sunday was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail Tuesday...