Identical twin drops bombshell: I committed murder, not my brother
It was the first time in years that the 38-year-old identical twin brothers had seen each other. Their mother wept as she looked on. But this was no typical family...
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Archdiocese waited week before reporting child porn allegation against priest
A Catholic priest responsible for recruiting young men to the priesthood appeared in court Wednesday on child pornography charges after police arrested him at a Maryland treatment center where the...
Joan Murphy, Cook County commissioner, longtime politician dies at 79
Inspired by the public service of her childhood hero John F. Kennedy, Cook County Commissioner Joan Murphy traded life as a United Airlines stewardess for a career in local politics...
‘Don’t you think I suffered enough?’ mother of DUI crash victim asks driver
Sixteen years after her son and three others were killed in a West Side drunken-driving crash, Brenda Posley walked slowly to the front of a Cook County courtroom Friday. She...
Prosecutors: Fire that killed 4 was started by man angry over failed sex deal
A makeshift memorial of dozens of teddy bears, Disney stuffed animals and deflated Mylar balloons still stands out front of the half-burned-out apartment building where three young sisters and a...
Drunken driver gets 26 years in ’12 crash that killed two children
Eric Ochoa remembers turning to make sure his young son had his seat belt on as the family drove to a hair salon. As the two kids' mother drove, Ochoa...
Grand jury to look into possible cover-up by Chicago police in Laquan McDonald shooting
A special grand jury will be impaneled to investigate a possible cover-up by Chicago police in the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald at the request of a special prosecutor appointed...
One Chicago cop charged, another cleared in alleged brutality cases caught on video
Chicago police were breaking up a loud West Side block party in July 2014 when cellphone video captured Officer Brett Kahn walking up to a partygoer and slamming him in...
Chicago cop charged with striking man in face with baton at 2014 block party
Cook County prosecutors have brought felony charges against a Chicago police officer more than two years after he was captured on video striking a man with his service baton at...
Man convicted in 1993 massacre at Brown’s Chicken claims new evidence, seeks hearing
A man convicted of one of the Chicago area's most infamous crimes — the 1993 massacre at a Brown's Chicken restaurant in Palatine — is seeking a court hearing into...