John Gorman

Five employees at the North Chicago Veterans Affairs Medical Center have been charged with stealing items as mundane as towels and as bizarre as a human skeleton. "They stole just...

A former Island Lake police officer surrendered to sheriff's police Thursday to face charges that she allegedly shot her boyfriend in their trailer last summer and then allegedly lied to...

A bold bandit invaded a bank just a block from police headquarters Tuesday, slipped a teller a note demanding cash and fled with an unknown amount of money. The robber...

The Illinois Appellate Court has turned down the appeal by a man convicted of raping a 10-year-old girl two years ago. Richard Johnson, 35, had contended that his 12-year sentence,...

Hawthorn District 73 School Supt. Edward Noyes is scheduled to appear in court this month on charges that he was drunk when he fled the scene of an auto accident...

The lesson from a weekend burglary of a small arsenal of handguns from the Ace Hardware store in Gurnee appears to fit the timeless truism: Never put off until tomorrow...

A longtime member of the Christian Fellowship Church in Waukegan was arrested Thursday on charges that he molested two young sisters this summer in the church's playroom. Thursday's arrest comes...

A man shot by Waukegan police last year has filed suit in federal court charging that he had done nothing to warrant such violence. Filed in U.S. District Court in...

A Lake County judge sentenced a drug dealer to eight years in prison Monday after rejecting arguments that the man had been unfairly convicted because the jury selection process discriminates...

The geography lesson Tuesday by the senior senator from Illinois turned abruptly into a lesson in salesmanship from a 14-year-old eager to visit the lawmaker's home away from home. "I'm...