Judge orders Lake prosecutors to turn over DNA match ID
A Lake County judge this morning ordered prosecutors to turn over the name of a man whose DNA matches blood found at the murder scene of a prominent Waukegan businessman...
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Officials: Worker kills self in Waukegan post office
A postal worker in Waukegan died after ingesting multiple cleaning agents and cutting himself at the post office late Tuesday, officials said today.A postal service spokesman said the man, a...
Brawl at Lake County Courthouse leads to arrests
A man holding a baby was apparently punched in the face outside a Lake County courtroom in Waukegan this morning, starting what witnesses said was a brawl that involved several...
Officials: Worker kills self in Waukegan post office
A postal worker in Waukegan died after ingesting multiple cleaning agents and cutting himself at the post office late Tuesday, officials said today.A postal service spokesman said the man, a...
Preacher gets 18 years for sex assault
While he continued to deny any wrongdoing, the Rev. Morris Eubanks prayed for mercy before he was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl....
New DNA test in 1994 Waukegan killing fails to match man convicted of crime, lawyer says
A new DNA test of blood evidence from the 1994 murder of a prominent Waukegan businessman has been found to match someone other than the man who has served 15...
Recipients of civil union license: ‘We wanted to make a statement’
Every Valentine's Day for the past seven or eight years, Roseann Szalkowski and Barb McMillan walked into the DuPage County Clerk's office to ask for a marriage license, and every...
Coin toss decides election in 2 suburban trustee races
Chuck Cermak would have preferred a duel. The sports hunter figures he would have the advantage in a shootout to join the Village Board in northwest suburban Island Lake. "That's...
Tenant pleads guilty to fatally stabbing landlord
A 38-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder for stabbing his 70-year-old landlord in his home near Antioch. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Jason Baker could face...
Lake County sheriff probes use of police powers by coroner’s deputies
Lake County Coroner Richard Keller's abrupt resignation last month amid his own legal woes has shed some light on an apparently little-known aspect of coroners' powers: They and their deputies...