Matthew Walberg

Andre Crawford sat stone-faced as prosecutors played his videotaped confession to the brutal beating, rape and murder of Patricia Dunn, the first of 11 women he is charged with sexually...

Hammond police and court records detailed Monday how two teenagers allegedly robbed a popular couple from Hammond, stole their 1997 Cadillac Eldorado and returned to "finish them." Yet no murder...

A second juror who voted to spare James Degorski's life for the Brown's Chicken massacre says he opposes capital punishment even though during jury selection he indicated he would likely...

Another psychologist testified Friday at the death penalty hearing for James Degorski as it appeared that testimony could wrap up and the jury deliberate his fate early next week. Circuit...

The death penalty hearing for the convicted killer in the Brown's Chicken massacre was abruptly postponed until next week after the judge and lawyers conferred Thursday behind locked courtroom doors....

The packed courtroom was silent Tuesday as the judge's clerk took 30 seconds to read a verdict that many in the room waited 16 years to hear. Victims' relatives struggled...

Jurors are scheduled Monday to hear opening statements in the trial of James Degorski, accused of the infamous Brown's Chicken massacre, seven years after he was charged and more than...

Friends of a cross-dressing man who was charged Thursday in a robbery and beating expressed surprise at the charges, saying he feared being physically attacked by men because of his...

A few hours before sunup, the eight young friends from the west suburbs were just trying to get home in a black Lincoln Navigator SUV when they got turned around...

A convicted sex offender serving a 30-year prison sentence in Mississippi for manslaughter was mistakenly freed from Cook County Jail after prosecutors here dropped sex-related charges against him. Authorities said...