Jim Newton

Inmates struggling with addiction will have the opportunity to begin a drug-treatment program to help curb cravings prior to release from the Lake County Jail under a new program being...

Five years after she was convicted of inflicting fatal injuries on a boy at a suburban day care center where she worked, Melissa Calusinski was back in a Lake County...

Lake County's Drug Court received high praise Tuesday from U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, after he met with its organizers, operators and two graduates who credited the program with transforming...

An Illinois Appellate Court has ruled there is no evidence that a vote to unionize by some employees of the Lake County Circuit Court's Office involved fraud or coercion, as...

A September hearing date was set Tuesday to address a request from defense attorneys for Melodie Gliniewicz for more background from Lake County prosecutors on the information that led to...

The nationwide heroin and opiate crisis has some jails and prisons tightening security, but a no-contact policy at the Lake County Jail eliminates the threat, officials said, except when inmates...