Kevin Lynch

Years ago, with her conscience weighing on her, Ella Mae Dicks tried confessing to a church group, telling them about the grisly slaying in rural Indiana 27 years ago. But...

Two Elgin sisters accused of leaving their six children in a hot truck with the windows rolled up for at least 30 minutes face a Sept. 5 court date on...

A 22-year-old Aurora man died Thursday of injuries he suffered in a head-on car crash on Kirk Road just south of Wilson Street in Batavia. Carlos R. Guzman was driving...

The DuPage County sheriff's office has received a $7,644 grant to continue a program that uses undercover teens to catch retailers who sell cigarettes to minors. The "Kids Can't Buy...

A Darien doctor whose wife disappeared about three years ago was arraigned Tuesday on two counts of aggravated domestic battery after being accused of stabbing his live-in caretaker in the...

A pedestrian was struck and killed by an inbound Milwaukee District West line train Wednesday morning. The man, who was on the Illinois Highway 83 overpass south of Irving Park...

A house fire that killed a 61-year-old disabled Aurora man started after electrical circuits overloaded and threw sparks onto a couch in the man's living room, Aurora Fire Marshal Kent...

Tossing up another potential roadblock to the expansion of O'Hare International Airport, the DuPage Forest Preserve Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to block the City of Chicago from acquiring district-owned parcels...

A Darien man became the first person snagged in a fledgling Internet child-sex sting operation run by the Darien Police Department. Christopher A. Bergman, 30, of the 7200 block of...

Two Aurora Township residents were arrested over the weekend after being accused of allegedly injuring a Kane County sheriff's deputy while he was investigating a noise complaint at their home....