VILLA PARK MAN CHARGED IN CYCLIST’S HIT-RUN DEATH
A 21-year-old Villa Park man was being held by Lombard police Monday on charges arising from the hit-and-run death of a 70-year-old Maywood cyclist last month. Guillermo E. Arroyo-Gonzalez of...
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AGENT POSED AS DEALER’S GIRLFRIEND IN AUSTIN
Federal investigators probing police corruption in the Austin District used at least two undercover agents who posed as drug dealers, including a woman who was yanked from her vehicle and...
Ticket out of prison a scam; Northbrook man guilty of conning inmate’s wife
For several months last year, Michael Paulson, once described as one of the Chicago area's busiest safecrackers, thought he was about to steal his way out of prison. That was...
JACKSON DEFENSE SEEKS TAPES
An attorney for former Oak Park High School basketball star Larry Jackson on Tuesday asked school officials to turn over game videotapes in the defense of a battery charge leveled...
SPRING’S FIRST DAY IS A COLD BLAST FROM THE WINTRY PAST
Giant garbage cans clanked across sidewalks, litter clung to fences like so much ivy, roof shingles went airborne, and pedestrians held onto trees or slammed into one another on the...
STREET GANG MEMBERS CONVICTED OF KILLING 2
Two Northwest Side gang members have been convicted of a 1994 drive-by shooting that left two teenagers dead, including an 18-year-old Oak Park girl who had gone back to Chicago's...
MAN, WIFE SENTENCED FOR THEFT
James Schierhorn, former treasurer of the Leyden Township Trustees of Schools, pleaded guilty Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court to theft and official misconduct. Schierhorn was then sentenced to 4...
September 1995: Reynolds gets 5 years
"You blew it." With those words, Criminal Judge Fred Suria Jr. sentenced a still defiant U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds to 5 years in prison Thursday for having sex with a...
WITNESS ADDS TWIST TO SLAYINGS OF 1955
A third version of the killing of youngsters Robert Peterson and Anton and John Schuessler in 1955 emerged in Criminal Court Friday, implicating not only former stable hand Kenneth Hansen...
O’MALLEY TOOK RISK, CAME OUT ON TOP
As the details of the sex investigation of U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds began to leak out last year, the public might well have wondered whether Cook County State's Atty. Jack...