Michael Kates

QuoVadis Harper wondered where he was going. The Evanston senior's grandmother, who had named and raised him, had just died weeks before the basketball season began, and he was still...

An FBI plane soon will take to the skies over Lake and Kenosha Counties to snap photos that will help local authorities in their investigation of the murder and dismemberment...

Lake County sheriff's police were investigating how an 8-year-old boy got hold of a powerful firework that exploded in one of his hands over the weekend. The boy, whom officials...

A Waukegan police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday in Lake County Court to charges that he clubbed a man with his gun and threatened to kill him in the lobby...

A man who stabbed a woman in a Waukegan store, struck two pedestrians during his attempted getaway and wounded a Waukegan police officer on Friday was fatally shot by police...

An 18-year-old man charged with killing a Chicago teenager more than three years ago has pleaded guilty to murder and will be sentenced in May, officials said Monday. Lake County...

The body of a North Chicago man, missing since Jan. 1, was discovered Tuesday floating in a recently thawed pond in a subdivision here. A construction worker spotted the body...

A Waukegan man was charged Tuesday in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident Monday night, police said. Police said a car driven by Hector Albarran, 41, of 2740 Wall Ave....

Authorities on Monday were investigating whether alcohol played a part in a fatal weekend car crash. Killed Saturday night was Terri Rich, 36, of Round Lake. A passenger in her...

A Lake County grand jury has indicted a Wisconsin man in connection with a fatal snowmobile accident in January. Douglas Bailey, 46, of Pleasant Prairie was charged with reckless homicide...