Wheaton Crime
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DuPage County program credited with saving 100th heroin overdose victimJan 29, 2016 12:00 am - For the 100th time since 2014, a DuPage County police officer has used the opiate overdose reversal drug Narcan to save someone's life. Early Thursday morning, a DuPage ...
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Split verdict for third man in Downers Grove Radio Shack robberyJan 29, 2016 12:00 am - A DuPage County jury deliberated for nearly 10 hours Friday before delivering a split verdict for Brandon Jones, the Woodridge man charged with being the gunman in a Dec...
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Sentencing delayed after Dennis Hastert nearly diedJan 28, 2016 12:00 am - A federal judge agreed Thursday to delay Dennis Hastert's sentencing in a hush-money case after his attorney said the former U.S. House Speaker nearly died in November f...
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Jury to get Radio Shack robbery case Friday morningJan 28, 2016 12:00 am - A DuPage County jury Friday morning will begin deciding the fate of a Woodridge man charged with being the gunman in a December 2013 armed robbery of a Downers Grove Rad...
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Defense argues posts against North Central College were free speechJan 27, 2016 12:00 am - "I bring a gun to school every day. Someday someone is going to ... end up in a bag." Attorneys for Aden Khan, a 22-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin, accused of posting ...
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Lisle man charged with endangering childJan 26, 2016 12:00 am - A 28-year-old Lisle man is being held on $7,500 bail in DuPage County jail charged with endangering the health or life of a child by smashing a liquor bottle through a c...
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Trial begins for third man charged in Radio Shack armed robberyJan 26, 2016 12:00 am - Michael Goetschel was on his knees, fearing for his life in the washroom of a Radio Shack, as a hooded man held a .38 revolver to his head demanding access to a locked c...
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Boy pleads guilty to bringing knife to Naperville schoolJan 25, 2016 12:00 am - An 11-year-old boy, who brought a knife to Naperville's Hill Middle School last spring, pleaded guilty Monday in juvenile court to a misdemeanor count of aggravated assa...
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DuPage coroner: Heroin deaths rise, but it could have been worseJan 21, 2016 12:00 am - The number of heroin-related deaths rose again last year in DuPage County, Coroner Richard Jorgensen said Thursday. And the picture could have been significantly worse,...
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West Chicago rescuers save overdose victimJan 20, 2016 12:00 am - A 21-year-old West Chicago man is the latest to have his life saved by a heroin overdose intervention drug as DuPage County inches closer to its 100th save. West Chicago...