Flynn McRoberts

If a 14-year-old Schaumburg girl did consider killing her father, as prosecutors allege, she wasn't the first teenager to entertain such a thought. Like some other angry and frustrated teens,...

Police grilled Paul Modrowski for hours last week, thinking the south suburban teenager with a notorious reputation was their man. No murder weapon had been found, but tipsters had suggested...

An 18-year-old Mokena man with a penchant for aliases and all-black attire was being questioned in connection with the murder and dismemberment of a man found in Barrington, authorities said...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans marched hand-in-hand Sunday, men with men and women with women, declaring that they won't hide their homosexuality anymore and demanding that the country recognize their...

On the one day of the year reserved to honor Mother Earth, Jane Kern stood in the parking lot of an Arlington Heights gardening shop. Defiantly, she recounted the humiliation...

This wasn't what Patty Herchenbach had in mind when she purchased a local watering hole. On Tuesday, she sloshed through several inches of Fox River water that stood in her...

A Cook County correctional officer has been charged with domestic battery after he allegedly punched his girlfriend in the face late Saturday, police said. Sandy Wimberly, 48, of 2250 S....

A 50-year-old Kentucky woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a gun she was holding discharged and fatally wounded her 71-year-old boyfriend. Reba Royal of Owensboro, Ky., faces an...

Bond was set at $1 million Thursday for a Schaumburg man accused of holding his ex-girlfriend hostage and firing a .357 Magnum revolver, narrowly missing her, authorities said. A judge...

Twenty young men from McHenry County and Carpentersville have been arrested on drug charges following a two-month undercover investigation that centered on Crystal Lake South High School. The suspects, age...