Friends of slain 6-year-old girl in court to see justice done
Sitting next to her mother Tuesday in a crowded Cook County courtroom, 8-year-old Yaya Vaca began to cry when prosecutors displayed for jurors a photo of a smiling Aliyah Shell,...
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Man given 28 years in prison for Chicago police chase that turned fatal
A Simeon Career Academy graduate who had a college football scholarship, a supportive family and a girlfriend who wanted to start a family with him threw it all away when...
Cook County jury convicts man in cold-case homicide from 1991
Tiffany Williams wasn't prepared for what she saw on pushing open the door of her friend's South Side studio apartment in 1991. As she called out her friend's name, Tiffany...
1 bullet hit slain Chicago police officer at close range, pathologist says
One of two shots to the head that killed a Chicago police officer investigating a garage burglary in 2010 was fired from close range, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday. Dr....
Widow, daughter of slain Chicago officer weep as photos shown at trial
The family of a slain Chicago police officer cried and held each other Wednesday as crime scene photos were shown in court for the first time. It was the third...
Cousin tearfully testifies that man confessed to her that he killed cop
Hours after police swarmed their South Chicago neighborhood when a uniformed Chicago police officer and a neighbor were gunned down, Timothy Herring told his cousin that he had killed both...
Lure of $20,000 reward led to charges in cop killing, defense says
Timothy Herring was a "coldblooded" executioner who killed a Chicago police officer and another man to avoid returning to prison, prosecutors told jurors Monday, but Herring's lawyer said her client...
Trial begins Monday in killing of Chicago police officer
Chicago police Officer Michael Flisk seemingly wasn't working a particularly dangerous job when he pulled into a South Chicago neighborhood alley early in the afternoon a day after Thanksgiving in...
Mom turns in son, 15, after seeing photos of attacker in Blue Line sex assault
A woman who boarded a CTA train in Oak Park on Monday afternoon was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted by a 15-year-old boy, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday. The entire...
Prosecutors: With son in his arms, man leans and whispers to woman he shot
After shooting Mechelle Lewis, prosecutors say her ex-boyfriend held their 5-year-old son in his arms, leaned down and whispered in Lewis' ear before hitting her in the head with his...