Jim Newton

Jeremy Betancourt pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of escape and alleged violations of the probation and periodic imprisonment sentence he had been serving for the street-racing crash that killed...

A Waukegan man who prosecutors said "turned the bike paths of Lake County into a hunting ground" was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for ambushing and sexually attacking...

A Chicago man has been charged with multiple felony charges of sexual assault against a minor in Waukegan. Mario Murphy, 48, was indicted by a Lake County grand jury last...

Testimony began this week on a defense motion to suppress evidence in the case of Steven Habay, a former Highland Park High School substitute teacher accused of cyberstalking and possession...

A plea deal is being explored for a Waukegan man facing felony drug charges and allegations that he posed as a police officer to rob people in 2013. Danny Blalock,...

A Waukegan man accused of brutally torturing and killing several pit bulls with tools also intimidated an adult female family member by choking her, beating her in the head and...

A Nov 2. trial date has been scheduled for Jose Reyes, charged with multiple felonies in connection with the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of a Mundelein child in September...

Details about the alleged drug-related motive behind a home invasion earlier this year in an unincorporated area between Gurnee and Waukegan were revealed in court Wednesday as a third defendant...

A Lake County judge ruled Tuesday that two of five potential witnesses will be allowed to testify at trial about alleged inappropriate behavior by a Highland Park chiropractor charged with...