Crime
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Russia expels EU diplomats over Navalny as tensions rise
Feb 05, 2021 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Russia said Friday it was expelling diplomats from Sweden, Poland and Germany, accusing them of attending a rally in support of opposition leader Alexei Na...
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Two teens convicted of suburban murders, two different rulings on appealFeb 05, 2021 4:20 am - Two defendants convicted of murder as teens in notorious suburban killings. Two pleas for leniency based on similar arguments before the same state appeals court. Two co...
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Authorities: Lake Villa man stabbed or cut 9-year-old daughter, himself to deathFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - A Lake Villa father stabbed or cut his 9-year-old daughter and then himself to death, according to police who discovered the bodies Thursday afternoon at the father's ho...
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Woman accused of attempted murder of newbornFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - A Morton Grove woman accused of delivering her baby and leaving it in a garbage bag at her Glenview workplace has now been charged with attempted murder, officials said....
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Former Northbrook engineer charged with stalking held on $40,000 bailFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - A former Northbrook civil engineer who prosecutors say took hundreds of photos of women and girls without their knowledge was ordered held on $40,000 bail Friday. Marti...
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Transgender inmates' class-action suit can proceedFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A federal district court in southern Illinois denied a request Thursday from the Illinois Department of Corrections to dismiss a class-action lawsuit again...
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Kyle Rittenhouse fires attorney who helped raise his bail
Feb 05, 2021 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. - An 18-year-old Antioch teen who's accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last summer fired a C...
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Myanmar blocks Facebook as resistance grows to coup
Feb 04, 2021 6:00 am - YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's new military government blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Monday's coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest th...
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Judge orders US officials to weigh coal mine's climate costs
Feb 04, 2021 6:00 am - BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A judge says U.S officials downplayed climate change impacts and other environmental costs from the expansion of a massive coal mine near the Mont...
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Court: Black man's arrest for refusing to show ID improper
Feb 04, 2021 6:00 am - RICHMOND. Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that sheriff's deputies in Virginia violated the constitutional rights of a Black man when they arrested him ...