Jim Newton

Testimony began Tuesday on a Waukegan man's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea to first-degree murder for a fatal stabbing outside of a Gurnee car lot in 2011. Zervont Thomas,...

The man charged with shooting Waukegan 23-year-old Mutassem Ahmad Abdelaziz outside of an Aldi store in Zion in 2013 allegedly left his cellphone in the car where the murder took...

Jury selection began Monday morning in the trial of Jamal Johnson, charged with first-degree murder in the 2013 shooting death of Waukegan 23-year-old Mutassem Ahmad Abdelaziz outside of an Aldi...

Their cases lagged for a variety of reasons this year, but separate murder trials for all three defendants in the 2013 murder of Highland Park 20-year-old Colin Nutter are now...

A homeless man accused of firing a handgun at Waukegan police officers during a Nov. 22 armed-robbery investigation was arrested last week and held on $1 million bond after being...

Ronald Maas was in the midst of a high-speed police chase that left him seriously injured when he vowed to a younger passenger that he would not go to jail,...

Several of the 21 defendants arrested across Lake County last month in "Operation Shut Down the Hustle" were arraigned in Lake County Circuit Court on Friday, pleading not guilty to...

A Chicago man charged with murdering of his 2-month-old son in Waukegan last November is set to go to trial next month in Lake County Circuit Court. A Dec. 8...