Crime
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Trial date set for Cullerton
Apr 27, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - State Sen. Tom Cullerton, who was indicted in 2019 on charges of embezzlement, is set to go to trial in February next year, a federal judge said on Tuesday...
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Bolingbrook man gets 6 months for fatal street racing crash in BartlettApr 27, 2021 1:00 am - A Bolingbrook man whose street racing caused a crash that killed two people was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail. DuPage County prosecutors had asked for a 12-yea...
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Des Plaines chief raises questions about musician's shooting
Apr 27, 2021 1:00 am - A year and a half after a Des Plaines police officer accidentally shot a promising young guitarist at a Northwest Side music school, the department's chief is finally sp...
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Tributes to French police official stabbed by extremist
Apr 26, 2021 7:00 am - RAMBOUILLET, France (AP) - Masked and in silence, hundreds of police officers, family members and others paid homage Monday to a French police official killed inside her...
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Analysis: A reckoning on racism? Not for many leaders of GOP
Apr 26, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - If the nation is in the midst of a historic reckoning on racism, most leaders of the Republican Party are not participating. On the day last week that a ...
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Justice Dept. opens police probe after Breonna Taylor death
Apr 26, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot to ...
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DC police department hit by apparent extortion attack
Apr 26, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Washington, D.C., police department said Monday that its computer network was breached, and a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate claimed to have...
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Homeland Security launches review of extremism within agency
Apr 26, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced an internal review to assess the threat of violent extremism from within the agency, part of a ...
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Russian authorities suspend operations of Navalny's offices
Apr 26, 2021 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Russian authorities on Monday ordered the offices of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny to halt their activities pending what would be a landmark ...
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Cartel gun battle with armored trucks kills 8 in Mexico
Apr 26, 2021 7:00 am - CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) - A raging gun battle between rival Mexican drug gangs near the U.S. border left eight people dead and a string of burned-out armored trucks...