Jim Newton

Remaining composed throughout about an hour of emotional testimony, Jeffrey Blum on Thursday described in detail the night his 19-year-old son, Jacob Blum, was fatally stabbed in the Waukegan motel...

A Round Lake Beach man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a Libertyville man found dead in his car. Kenneth Seplak, 37, was...

A former Lake Villa man's dying words may hold a message for a Lake County jury, a prosecutor said Tuesday afternoon. "Listen to what he is saying," Assistant State's Attorney...

A North Chicago man initially charged with murder pleaded guilty to aggravated battery with a firearm in exchange for a 15-year prison term under a plea deal approved Monday in...

The trial of a man charged with murder in the 2013 stabbing death of a 19-year-old Waukegan resident began early afternoon Monday when jury selection got underway. Kevin Curtis, 29,...

Another outburst on Friday punctuated an ongoing mental fitness hearing for a California man convicted of making terrorism threats in Lake County. Daniel Pederson, of Calabasas, Cal., was convicted in...

A California man convicted of making terrorism threats in Lake County was found mentally unfit to be sentenced Thursday by a Lake County Circuit Court judge. At the conclusion of...

A former Lake County Circuit Court probation public service coordinator was sentenced to 18 months of work release and 30 months of probation Wednesday for trading unearned community service credits...

A Mundelein woman was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison Tuesday for the death of a 22-year-old man in an early morning drunken driving crash in Libertyville....

Two teens and an adult were shot but are expected to survive following an altercation at a Waukegan motel early Saturday morning that drew a response from numerous police departments,...