Carolyn Rusin

A Schaumburg High School student stashed a stolen gun in her car because she felt like killing two other students, prosecutors said Wednesday. But Ashley M. Ross, 17, decided to...

The investigation of a Morton Grove man charged with 22 counts of felony identity theft started when his son reported that his father had threatened to shoot him, authorities said...

A reward for information in last year's fatal shootings of a McHenry County man and his wife has increased to $100,000, sheriff's police said Friday. Nick Romano, 71, and his...

More than a year after Terri White's son was gunned down near her Wheeling home, she says she is haunted by the faces of strangers, wondering whether one of them...

A car driven by a 17-year-old student from Algonquin slammed into a dump truck Friday then hit a utility pole, killing two passengers, including her brother, and injuring another youth,...

South Elgin police are investigating a possible hate crime after a racial slur was painted on a work counter and a noose was found hanging from an exit at a...

Bail was set at $250,000 Wednesday for a woman accused of helping a convicted murderer escape from an Elgin mental health center, police said. Lisa Mack, 38, of the 8000...

A Wrigleyville man has been charged with murder in the strangulation and stabbing death of an Arlington Heights woman Sunday morning. Patrick Ford, 25, was charged with first-degree murder in...

John R. Venezia, an accountant knee-deep in tax returns, usually just grabbed a sandwich from the Subway shop near his West Dundee office and hustled back to his desk, friends...

A teenager was killed and two others injured early Friday when a car slammed into a historic East Dundee building, a crash that involved alcohol, authorities said. Roman Pokorny, 16,...