Jerry Shnay

Four local men, including two whom prosecutors called "high-ranking members" of a Joliet street gang, were arraigned Tuesday on murder charges in connection with the firebombing death of a 91-year-old...

A Will County judge Wednesday ruled that the lawyer for a defendant charged with attempted murder could not get a record of any conversations between a codefendant and another attorney....

A proposal to keep riverboat casinos from giving money to political campaigns in Joliet was scuttled by the City Council's Legislative Committee. Three city councilmen, Carl Winterrose, Joseph Shetina and...

The City Council has been told that it would violate the constitutional separation of church and state to give money to any parochial school or church when it meets Friday...

A Lemont man convicted of drunken driving but acquitted on two counts of reckless homicide was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail by a Will County judge who said...

The city is offering a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for last week's firebombing of a house on Meeker Street that caused the death of...

It took a Will County jury less than 30 minutes Thursday to convict a Joliet man for the bizarre execution-style killing of a bar patron who gave him a "dirty...

A city man accused of killing another man in a bar fight in September is scheduled to testify on his own behalf Wednesday in a Will County courtroom. Ralph Lopez,...

A Will County judge Tuesday denied bail in lieu of bond for a Naperville man accused of murdering the man involved with his former girlfriend. Judge Rodney B. Lechwar ruled...

A human skull found during a drug raid at a house in Joliet Township nearly three weeks ago has been identified as the remains of a 60-year-old white male who...