Palatine Crime
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Rudd's medical expert says wife died from 'internal decapitation'Jun 28, 2018 1:00 am - There was another twist Thursday in the already strange saga of Donnie Rudd, a former attorney accused of killing Noreen Kumeta, his 19-year-old bride of just one month,...
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Pathologist testifies head injury, not broken neck, killed 19-year-old brideJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - Happy and beautiful. That was how Karen Mezera described her older sister Noreen Kumeta on Aug. 18, 1973, the day Noreen married Donnie Rudd, a patent attorney whom she ...
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Palatine man charged with attempted murder in stabbingJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - A 45-year-old Palatine man accused of stabbing a woman in the abdomen Saturday morning at a Palatine condominium complex is now facing an attempted murder charge, Palati...
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Prosecutors in murder trial: 19-year-old bride 'a means to an end'Jun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Prosecutors in former suburban lawyer Donnie Rudd's murder trial painted him as a man who married his 19-year-old second wife Noreen Kumeta after a whirlwind courtship, ...
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Man charged with gun crime after brief chase in PalatineJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - A 26-year-old Dolton man who led Palatine police on a brief foot chase Saturday night was charged with a litany of crimes after police found a loaded .40 caliber Glock p...
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Palatine shooting leads to high-speed chase through suburbs, ChicagoJun 25, 2018 1:00 am - A shooting during a car break-in in Palatine early Monday led to a high-speed police chase through the suburbs and Chicago that ended with a crash on the city's Near Wes...
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Woman stabbed Saturday in Palatine domestic incidentJun 23, 2018 1:00 am - A 39-year-old woman was stabbed in the abdomen Saturday morning in what authorities describe as a domestic incident in the courtyard of a Palatine condominium complex. P...
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Palatine woman arrested on drug chargeJun 20, 2018 1:00 am - A Palatine woman was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute after officers executed a search warrant Tuesday at a Palatine home wher...
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Trump backer to sign thieves: Just pay up to avoid prosecutionJun 15, 2018 5:30 am - Last week, with a high-stakes summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on the horizon and plenty of news coverage in the Daily Herald and elsewhere about an "Impeac...
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Leader in Elgin kidnapping, cigarette tattoo torture gets 16½ years in prisonJun 06, 2018 1:00 am - A 20-year-old who authorities said led a scheme in which a teen was kidnapped in Elgin and held overnight while cigarettes were used to burn her shoulder tattoo pleaded ...