Steve Schmadeke

Attorneys for the three out-of-state men charged with plotting terrorist attacks around the 2012 NATO summit continued to grill an undercover Chicago police officer about police surveillance tactics and whether...

Lawyers for the so-called NATO 3 got their first crack at cross-examining the first of two undercover Chicago police officers Thursday after Cook County prosecutors finished playing more than 50...

Were they terrorists "ready for war" or mouthy "goofs" looking to protest and party? The first-ever terrorism prosecution by Cook County authorities began Tuesday with jurors hearing dramatically different views...

A Chicago police officer was in jail Friday night, accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl who is a member of his extended family, authorities said. Daniel Aguilera, 57, who...

When a Cook County jury took a little less than two hours Friday to convict Mya Lyons' father of the brutal 2008 murder of his daughter, it brought her mother...

Jurors have begun deliberating the fate of Richard Lyons in the murder of his daughter Mya after hearing 80 minutes of closing arguments today from attorneys on both sides. Assistant...