John Gorman

The state will not seek the death penalty against two brothers charged with the murder of a 17-year-old Chicago youth in 1991, a prosecutor said Monday. Assistant State's Atty. Michael...

The Illinois Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of Rev. Lloyd R. Davis, who was convicted in 1992 and sentenced to 31 years in prison for sexually...

Jury selection began Tuesday in Lake County Court in the trial of James Woods, accused in the double murders last April at Maude's Pizza in Waukegan. Woods, 25, is accused...

A gunman abducted two Ingleside women Wednesday, forcing them to drive him to a remote area of central McHenry County and tying them to a tree before driving off in...

A 24-year-old North Chicago man has been convicted in the slaying last February of a Wisconsin man during a drug deal. Christopher Garner, of 1116 Park Ave., North Chicago, was...

According to investigators, Alexander Nikolic and Graznya Fiszer stole everything from fax machines and furs to word processors and jewelry. But police said their bridal shop heists had a special...

A Lake County judge on Tuesday sentenced the former executive director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in North Chicago to one year of work-release for using...

A Lake County judge Thursday refused to allow a North Chicago man to withdraw his guilty plea in the rape of a 9-year-old girl in Beach Park in 1988. Judge...

He experimented with Ping-Pong balls, plastic garbage bags and even considered using rusty nails. Finally, though, he settled on electrocution. It was so simple, so clean, and so hard to...

Suave and persistent, Richard J. Bailey wooed Helen Vorhees Brach over dinner, on dance floors and across the country. When at first she refused his overtures, he followed her to...