Steve Schmadeke

Christopher Vaughn was sentenced to four life terms this morning for fatally shooting his wife and three children after pulling off an expressway in 2007. Vaughn looked over his shoulder...

Christopher Vaughn wanted to live in perfect freedom in the Canadian wilderness, prosecutors said, but instead he will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Will County...

Two of Will County's biggest criminal cases converged in court Monday when attorneys for convicted quadruple murderer Christopher Vaughn argued that he was entitled to a new trial because of...

Two Markham police officers – one of them the son of the town's mayor – have been charged in state court with stealing thousands of dollars from a south suburban...

Dozens of tombstones in a south suburb's cemetery were toppled or broken over the weekend, an act of vandalism that left many in the small town feeling "violated," its mayor...

Dozens of tombstones in a south suburb's cemetery were toppled or broken over the weekend, an act of vandalism that left the small town feeling "violated" its mayor said. St....

Drew Peterson began the uphill battle to overturn his murder conviction Friday, filing a motion for a new trial that could force his former lead attorney to testify about how...