Jim Newton

One of Lake County's most notorious convicted killers could see his local murder case revisited if a defense motion is granted. A defense attorney for Hector Reuben Sanchez, now 71...

A Lake County Circuit judge will rule on a sentence Tuesday for Nicholette Lawrence, a Waukegan woman who pleaded guilty to murder in the beating death of her 11-year-old daughter....

Nicholette Lawrence alternately cried and buried her face in her hands as her sentencing hearing for the murder of her 11-year-old daughter unfolded Thursday in an audio- and video-assisted depiction...

A man described by authorities as the main target of a large-scale operation against cartel-fueled drug dealing by a street gang in the Waukegan area was sentenced to 32 years...

A man wanted in the November killing of a Waukegan High School student was arrested in Tennessee this week and brought back to Lake County, where his bail was set...

An extra layer of security was added Thursday morning to bond conditions of a Round Lake Beach man released on bond last month after being charged with murder in what...

A man charged in an alleged stalking-related killing in Libertyville bonded out of Lake County Jail late last week after a relative met his bail with a $300,000 cashier's check....