Janan Hanna

Police investigators considered staging a phony attack on Edward Lyng's girlfriend in an effort to scare her into telling authorities that Lyng killed his wife, a defense lawyer contended in...

A Cook County judge Wednesday refused to allow the attorney representing a man accused of killing his infant son in August access to his client's adoption records. Assistant Public Defender...

Two men charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of a 16-year-old girl and a 23-year-old man pleaded innocent Tuesday at a hearing in the Rolling Meadows branch of...

It didn't matter to Jim Marcero that the temperature was just barely above freezing, the ground remained covered with snow and ice skating still was considered the sport of choice....

Chicago-area residents hunkered down for what is expected to be one of the coldest days in history Tuesday-maybe even the coldest-but they found that preparing was as difficult as coping...

Careless smoking was the apparent cause of an extra alarm fire that forced the evacuation of a Prospect Heights hotel early Sunday, fire officials said. Several guests at the Forest...

A key prosecution witness in the upcoming murder trial of Palatine millionaire Edward Lyng will be allowed to testify that Lyng allegedly confessed to killing his wife, Stephanie, in 1977,...

The Village Board will hold a special meeting at 6:45 p.m. Monday to discuss placing an advisory gambling proposition on the March ballot. The meeting is in response to a...

Sheriff's police were questioning two suspects Sunday in connection with the fatal shooting late last week of a 16-year-old girl and a 23-year-old man in the man's house outside of...

Police were investigating Sunday the shooting death of a 30-year-old Elgin man whose body was found outside an apartment complex Saturday afternoon. Patrick Ferguson was found with a gunshot wound...