Judge to rule next month in trial over death of Samaritan
A lawyer for a man on trial on charges he drove over a good Samaritan who had tried to stop him from driving drunk attacked the testimony of bartenders and...
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Man on trial after good Samaritan killed while trying to stop drunken driving
Others watched as the highly intoxicated man left a bar in Chicago's West Town neighborhood, got into his girlfriend's SUV and smashed into parked cars as he attempted to drive...
Woman federally charged after escaping state charges in Endia Martin case
Two weeks after invoking her Fifth Amendment rights at her cousin's murder trial, a relative of a teen girl charged with fatally shooting Endia Martin has been indicted on federal...
Sentencing delayed for woman facing prison for kicking deputy on shin
A West Side woman facing six years in prison for kicking a Cook County sheriff's deputy on the shin had her sentencing delayed Wednesday after her attorney argued the prison...
Girl charged in 14-year-old Endia Martin’s killing given jury trial
The teenage girl charged with killing 14-year-old Endia Martin after a social media feud over a boy could be released from custody by the age of 19 even if she...
Woman faces mandatory 6 years in prison for kicking deputy on shin
Tina Hunt had gone to the Cook County criminal courthouse at 26th Street and California Avenue to attend her son's court appearance in November 2013 when she found herself in...
Wrong-way Lake Shore Drive driver apologizes for crash that changed families’ lives
The mother of a promising University of Chicago Law School student sobbed Thursday as she talked in a Cook County courtroom about how a crash caused by a man driving...
Prosecutors: Man killed by Chicago police broke into home to find who robbed him
The man shot to death by police in the boyhood home of Bulls star Derrick Rose had broken into the house with his girlfriend to find a man who robbed...
Cop’s attorney says mayor overstepped in remarks on Laquan McDonald shooting
An attorney for the Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald decried Friday what he called prejudicial comments by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and said...
In Chicago police shooting, judge ripped cop and tossed hospital bed testimony
Hours after he was shot multiple times by a Chicago police officer, Princeton Williamson was heavily sedated after emergency surgery when detectives came to question him at his hospital bedside....