John Gorman

The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed the attempted murder conviction of Dr. Seymour Schlager, who was found guilty of trying to smother his wife with a pillow. Schlager, 43, had...

Faster and cheaper than a speeding limo, more powerful than a mere taxi, a super taxi with blades-not bald tires-may be arriving in Lake County. But first the Vernon Hills...

A power outage shut down Highland Park High School on Monday, prompting officials to give the school's 1,500 students a three-day weekend. A main electrical line feeding the school failed...

A Mundelein police officer has been suspended for 25 days without pay for violating departmental policy when his squad car collided with another car last May, killing a motorist. Village...

A local man was indicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago on charges of bombing a Zion roller rink last year known as a gathering place for minority teenagers....

The Police and Fire Commission is expected to decide by the end of next week whether to discipline a village police officer whose speeding car collided with another car last...

Flood waters began inching up Thursday into yards in North Libertyville Estates as new rains fed the swollen Des Plaines River, authorities said. According to Lake County sheriff's police, the...

A 59-year-old local con man was sentenced to a year in prison in federal court Thursday for violating probation in a bank fraud scheme. In 1991, U.S. District Court Judge...

Two Chicago brothers who police said tossed clothes out of their car during a chase with a police car on the Tri-State Tollway last week have been charged with retail...

It was quiet in Lake Forest on Thursday-just the way Police Chief Bob Boone likes it-with little chatter over the radio for the dispatcher to handle. At the same time,...