Nick Swedberg

A Cook County jury found Shante Thomas guilty of murder Thursday in the 2011 killing of a pregnant Alsip teenager and her unborn child. Jurors took about 90 minutes to...

The Cook County Sheriff's Office posted extra deputies in and outside of a Markham courtroom Wednesday morning following an angry outburst the day before from a defendant on trial for...

Joshua Miller testified Tuesday he felt he was in "way too deep" five years ago when he heard the woman his friend Deandre Minkens took to an Applebee's turned up...

Grainy, 5-year-old security footage presented Monday to a Cook County jury shows two figures driving up to a car shampooer at a car wash near a Marathon gas station on...

Deandre Minkens told investigators he was drunk and didn't remember having sex in 2010 with Rosemary Newman, the woman he was subsequently accused of killing along with their unborn child,...

In a videotaped interview of Shante Thomas in 2011, the Chicago woman, then 19, told an evolving story about what she was doing the night a pregnant Alsip teen was...

The first time Rosie Newman saw her granddaughter was when the unborn child was lying dead on a table with the body of Newman's daughter Rosemary inside a funeral home,...

Three Oak Forest businesses sold tobacco products to minors in the latest compliance check, police said. The third and final round of the 2015-2016 "Kids Can't Buy Them Here" check...

Jury selection began Tuesday for trial in the 2011 killing of an Alsip teenager and her unborn child. Deandre Minkens and Shante Thomas are accused of strangling 18-year-old Rosemary Newman...