Crime
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Attorneys in ex-cop's trial probe jurors' views about police
Mar 10, 2021 6:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Attorneys in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death questioned potential jurors Wednesday about their attitu...
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US narrows in on organized extremists in Capitol siege probe
Mar 10, 2021 6:00 am - As members of the Oath Keepers paramilitary group shouldered their way through the mob and up the steps to the U.S. Capitol, their plans for Jan. 6 were clear, authoriti...
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Outspoken father of missing activist killed in Iraq's south
Mar 10, 2021 6:00 am - BAGHDAD (AP) - The father of a missing Iraqi anti-government activist who waged a public campaign trying to bring to account a militia suspected of abducting him was sho...
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Myanmar police raid housing for striking railway workers
Mar 10, 2021 6:00 am - MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar security forces on Wednesday raided a neighborhood in the country's largest city that houses state railway workers who have gone on stri...
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Kyle Rittenhouse trial delayed at least 7 months
Mar 10, 2021 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. - The trial for an 18-year-old from Antioch accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin was p...
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Lake Co. State's Attorney to focus on violent crime, victim's rightsMar 10, 2021 12:00 am - Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart said his office is changing the way violent crime cases are prosecuted. Rinehart, who is marking his 100th day on the job Wedn...
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Ex-Bartlett High teacher found guilty of endangering student in liquid-nitrogen demonstrationMar 10, 2021 12:00 am - A former Bartlett High School teacher was found guilty Wednesday of misdemeanor reckless conduct for pouring liquid nitrogen on a student's chest and groin during a scie...
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Sentencing Friday for Lombard man charged with reckless homicideMar 10, 2021 12:00 am - A Lombard man will be sentenced Friday on a charge of reckless homicide stemming from a crash that killed a Westmont woman in November 2019. Testimony was presented at ...
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Arkansas governor signs near-total abortion ban into law
Mar 09, 2021 6:00 am - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday signed into law legislation banning nearly all abortions in the state, a sweeping measure that supporter...
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US prosecutors allege Honduras president helped move drugs
Mar 09, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - An accountant witnessed meetings between Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández and a drug trafficker in which they planned the trafficking of cocain...