Jim Newton

More than 13 years after the bodies of two young girls were found in a Zion park, one of the most heinous crimes in Lake County history was resolved through...

As the parents of the victim looked on, an Island Lake man was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to drug-induced homicide in the 2015 death...

A Chicago woman has pleaded guilty to aggravated battery resulting from a June incident in which authorities said she struck a toddler being held by his grandmother with a vehicle...

A Wisconsin man who fled from a Lake County courtroom outside to a waiting vehicle Wednesday morning was taken into custody around 3:30 p.m. by a warrants team at his...

A Park City man charged with sexually assaulting several children who attended his wife’s former home-based day care operation will undergo a court-ordered mental health fitness evaluation. At the request...

A man convicted of murder in the 2013 Waukegan stabbing death of a 19-year-old Lake Villa resident has died while serving his sentence in Menard Correctional Center, according to authorities....

“Lake County Amnesty Week” will begin Sept. 24 and gives residents the opportunity to pay overdue court costs, fees and fines without having to fork over any accrued interest. Held...

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed in Zion Wednesday, according to authorities. No arrests had been made in the case as of Thursday, Zion Police Deputy Chief Kirk Henderson...

A North Chicago man has pleaded guilty to Lake County’s first murder of the year, a beating death in North Chicago prompted, officials said, by the defendant’s discovery of the...