Dan Hinkel

Murder and concealment of a homicide charges were brought late last night against a man who had a relationship with the mother of a 16-year-old girl whose body was found...

Police quickly arrested a robbery suspect in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood based on the victim's description of the man, who appeared in court Sunday dressed as a woman. Jamell Armstrong, 19,...

A Chicago man is charged with bursting into a motel room on Chicago's Southwest Side and robbing a prostitute of $90 after threatening to rape and kill her. Terry Edwards,...

Authorities are looking for leads in the shooting death of a longtime Lake County Fair volunteer. Harry Dahms, 68, was found dead in the driveway of his home along the...

A Chicago man charged with stabbing four Guardian Angels on a North Side "L" platform two weeks ago managed to evade arrest until Saturday night, when he was nabbed while...

Adding a new chapter to an elaborate tale of murder, arson and alleged romantic jealousy, appeals court judges have granted an inmate's request for DNA testing that he hopes will...

For the fourth time in less than two years, DNA evidence has forced Lake County prosecutors to reverse course in a violent criminal case and exonerate a man who spent...

After spending 16 years in prison for a murder that authorities now say he did not commit, James Edwards today was cleared of the 1994 killing of a Waukegan appliance...

Eleven days after announcing murder charges against a man whose DNA matched blood found at the scene of a 1994 slaying at a Waukegan appliance store, a Lake County prosecutor...