Carolyn Rusin

Police were searching Saturday for suspects in the apparent double homicide of a Buffalo Grove man and woman found in a disheveled and smoky condominium by authorities responding to a...

Gunshots tore the pre-dawn stillness of a prosperous Park Ridge neighborhood Monday morning, cutting down a businessman in a slaying that baffled authorities. As Gerald Dhamer headed to work just...

A 20-year member of the Wheeling Police Department has been appointed deputy police chief. Cmdr. William Benson was sworn in as deputy chief at Monday's board meeting. He replaces John...

A Barrington school district employee was being held in Lake County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail Friday after being charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old male relative, police...

Quiet and shy, Melvin Balderas, 4, was looking forward to starting preschool Monday. The Wheeling boy's dream was cut short Sunday when a Texas woman lost control of her car...

Police officers in Niles are wearing black bands of mourning on their badges this month for a member of their department known simply as Noah. Noah prowled the streets helping...

Krystal Heskin deserved a break--a job, a friendship or a bit of happiness--in a life that at times was difficult, friends and family said Thursday. But Heskin, 31, who was...

Acting on a tip, police raided an Elgin home Friday and removed 42 cats. Sharon Reese, 67, of the 100 block of 2nd Street, had as many as 70 cats,...

Trophies are great, but raising money for a good cause is what motivates northwest suburban firefighters taking part in a 12th annual softball tournament Saturday at Olympic Park in Schaumburg....

A 12-year-old girl plunged a knife into a classmate's back Friday morning at Aptakisic Junior High School in Buffalo Grove, sending him to the hospital with a collapsed lung and...