Jim Newton

A pathologist testified in the murder trial of Michael Axtell on Wednesday that 40-year-old Tammy Stone died from a brain hemorrhage due to blunt trauma. Prosecutors Eric Kalata and Jeff...

A Vernon Hills woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges related to several garbage can fires she allegedly set last fall. Stephanie Wollar, 28, faces seven counts each of...

A pathologist testified in the murder trial of Michael Axtell on Wednesday that 40-year-old Tammy Stone died from a brain hemorrhage due to blunt trauma. Prosecutors Eric Kalata and Jeff...

A jury was seated Tuesday morning in the trial of Waukegan 22-year-old Anthony Brito, accused of pulling the trigger in the fatal December 2012 shooting of Randy Hardy. According to...

Last year, the Enroll Lake County program headed up an all-out informational blitz to help uninsured Lake County residents become insured through the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace. While almost 13,000...

A 9-year-old girl witnessed her mother getting shot in the face inside a Waukegan bar early Friday morning, prosecutors said. The fatal shooting was also captured on the bar's security...

Two men, whose convictions on first-degree murder charges in a fatal 2007 North Chicago home invasion were later reversed, are expected to be retried Jan. 12 in a rare double-jury...