advertisement

Log Out

Crime

#MeToo advocates vow the reckoning will continue after Weinstein's conviction is overturned

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Apr 26, 2024 1:35 pm - NEW YORK — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, i...
Man sent to prison for assaulting West Dundee police officer

By Susan Sarkauskas
Apr 26, 2024 7:36 pm - A man has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges he assaulted and beat a West Dundee police officer. Tylor Z. Hyde, 28, of the 100 block of South Main Street ...
Another SUV stolen at Des Plaines gas station after keys left in ignition

By Russell Lissau
Apr 26, 2024 7:21 pm - In the latest theft of its kind in Des Plaines, a silver Audi Q7 was stolen this week at a gas station after the owner left the keys in the ignition while she was out of ...
Trump's lawyers seek to discredit testimony of prosecution's lead witness in hush money trial

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Apr 26, 2024 2:11 pm - NEW YORK — Donald Trump's defense team attacked the credibility Friday of the prosecution's first witness in his hush money case, seeking to discredit testimony detailing...
Aurora man declared to be a sexually violent person

By Susan Sarkauskas
Apr 26, 2024 11:46 am - A Kane County judge Thursday ruled a man convicted of possession of child pornography is a sexually violent person. Judge Clint Hull ordered that Erik Paxton, 35, be comm...
How’s cashless bail going? Here’s what the data says

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Apr 25, 2024 4:36 pm - About seven months after Illinois ended cash bail as a key provision of the much-debated SAFE-T Act, fears that it would lead to a surge in freed criminal suspects commit...
Takeaways from the Supreme Court argument on Trump’s criminal immunity

Perry Stein, Devlin Barrett, Spencer S. Hsu, Rachel Weiner
Apr 25, 2024 1:11 pm - The Supreme Court spent hours Thursday morning debating former President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for allegedly conspiring to undo the results of...
AJ Freund, 5 years later: The short life and lingering effects of slain Crystal Lake boy

By Amanda Marrazzo
Apr 26, 2024 9:50 pm - Five years ago, a weeklong search for a missing 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy came to an end. On April 24, 2019, Andrew Freund Sr. — after being confronted with videos on h...
Elgin man pleads guilty to murdering wife

By Susan Sarkauskas
Apr 25, 2024 8:56 pm - An Elgin man pleaded guilty last week to murdering his wife in 2021. Victor Ayllon, 38, of the 300 block of Heine Avenue, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murd...
Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court

By MICHAEL SISAK
Apr 25, 2024 12:03 pm - NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie...

Showing 1-10 of 42,409 next