Jerry Shnay

For the second time in four months, accused shotgun slayer Christopher Peterson has been acquitted by a Lake County, Ind., jury of murder charges stemming from a series of random...

Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh demanded Monday that the committee choosing a site for a third regional airport make a final decision by Jan. 17 because any further delay could kill...

Oak Lawn residents may soon be able to tune in a local crime show produced by their own village. It won`t be an Oak Lawn version of ''America`s Most Wanted,''...

A newly-developed computer network designed to monitor gang activity throughout Cook County was hailed by law enforcement officials Tuesday as a major weapon in an escalating war against gang infiltration...

Taxpayers in some west and south suburbs can expect steep increases in their bills when they begin arriving in the mail next week, and that could bring renewed calls for...

Times change. Gasoline was once 25 cents a gallon. The World Series was once played in daylight. Elvis was once an obscure name. And the Soviet Union was once an...

At a time when most area residents were sleeping in, Chicagoan Ted Kamberos rose at dawn Thursday to begin his 4th of July ritual. By 8:30 a.m., when Kamberos, his...

A Chicago Heights man charged with fradulently requesting eight absentee ballots during a heated primary election campaign was one of two south suburban residents whose indictments on vote-fraud charges were...

A hammer-wielding Bolingbrook man who was being evicted from his home Tuesday afternoon was fatally shot by a Will County deputy sheriff in what law enforcement officials called a justifiable...

Plainfield residents, some of whom are angry because of what they view as foot-dragging on plans to replace their tornado-ravaged high school, may wind up paying a greater share of...