Jim Newton

A Waukegan man charged with animal torture in connection with the deaths of three dogs unexpectedly took the stand Monday during pretrial defense motions and admitted to hitting the dogs...

In the midst of a recent rash of heroin overdoses, the Lake County Health Department has released a series of tips to those who persist in abusing opiates, including precautions...

A 21-year-old man accused of shooting three people in a Waukegan restaurant last year rejected a plea deal offer Friday and also dismissed his defense attorney. Johnathan Williams, who prosecutors...

After deliberating just over an hour, a jury convicted a Waukegan man Wednesday afternoon of robbing a Gurnee man at gunpoint on Grand Avenue in Waukegan last year. Zakeed Foster,...

Plea deal negotiations appear to have broken off for a Waukegan man facing felony drug charges and allegations that he posed as a police officer to rob people in 2013....

A Grayslake man is scheduled for sentencing July 27 after pleading guilty to the 2012 sexual assault of a girl under the age of 13. Under a negotiated plea deal,...

Two men charged with stealing more than 50 guns from a Zion gun store, an incident authorities had been investigating as part of a potential retaliation plan for the fatal...

A Wauconda man was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday afternoon for his part in a May 2014 home invasion in which a man was shot in the chest....