Jim Newton

Baxter International is helping to address dwindling state funding for social services in Lake County with a $100,000, five-year contribution to the local Nicasa behavioral health services agency. The money...

The Lake County State's Attorney's Office will appeal a local circuit court judge's decision to dismiss felony government theft charges against former North Chicago Police Chief Michael Newsome. On Wednesday,...

Melissa Calusinski will be transferred from prison back to the Lake County Jail next month for a hearing on a potential new murder trial in the 2009 death of a...

An attempt to set the date for an evidentiary hearing on whether Melissa Calusinski should receive a new trial after being convicted of the murder of a young child fell...