Cornelia Grumman

Police on Tuesday were investigating why a 43-year-old local man, John C. O'Donnell Jr., died in a car fire. O'Donnell was found just after 3 p.m. Monday sitting in the...

Authorities on Wednesday identified two Milwaukee women who were killed over the holiday weekend when their car veered off U.S. Highway 41 just south of Pulaski Drive. Two children were...

Police continued their investigation Thursday into the shooting death and robbery of a 58-year-old shop owner, with few new leads. One person who was seen around the arcade and lottery...

A 68-year-old local woman who did not know how to swim drowned Wednesday after falling off her raft near a Waukegan beach, authorities said. Anna Jovanovic of 1809 Walnut St.,...

A local man received nine months of work release and three years probation after admitting to sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy. Mark West, 30, of 895 Westmoreland Drive, received the...

Police have arrested a man they believe to be the cash register bandit of Long Grove, the culprit who broke into and stole cash registers in three village stores over...

Lake County sheriff's police have arrested the host of the 4th of July barbecue where 25-year-old Dyan Humo of Waukegan was killed by a single bullet. George Nelson, 28, of...

Medical officials in the Chicago area reported on Saturday dozens of heat-related deaths, even as temperatures finally dipped below record levels. In Cook County alone, heat caused or contributed to...

Cook County morgue workers have handled airline crashes and large apartment fires, but nothing, they say, compared to the weekend's unprecedented heat-related death toll. That grim tally reached 54 Saturday...

By midday Thursday, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had received 10 calls from people claiming to have information about the tangled and sinister horsing industry scandal. Throughout...