Crime
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Chicago men charged in Naperville retail theftsDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - Two Chicago men are facing felony charges stemming from three retail thefts this week in Naperville, police said. Donald Swope, 50, and Johnnie C. West, 54, were arreste...
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Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons
Dec 29, 2020 6:00 am - IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A federal judge in Iowa who has warned against political corruption is ridiculing President Donald Trump's pardons, including those issued to conv...
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Russian investigators open new fraud probe involving Navalny
Dec 29, 2020 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Russian authorities on Tuesday ramped up the pressure on top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny by leveling new fraud accusations against him. The Investigative...
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Lawyer: Soldier charged in Rockford shooting may have PTSD
Dec 29, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - An attorney for a U.S. Army special forces sergeant arrested in what authorities called an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that le...
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Nashville bomber left hints of trouble, but motive elusive
Dec 29, 2020 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - In the days before he detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, Anthony Quinn Warner changed his life in ways that suggest he never in...
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Feds decline charges against officers in Tamir Rice case
Dec 29, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of ...
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Chicago man charged with Bartlett package theftsDec 29, 2020 12:00 am - Bartlett police arrested a Chicago man Tuesday in connection with several reports of packages being stolen from front porches in the village last week. Carlos B. Smith, ...
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More charges for couple accused of enslaving two girls in AuroraDec 29, 2020 12:00 am - More charges have been filed against a couple accused of using two girls from Guatemala as slaves in Aurora. Santos Teodoro Ac-Salazar, 24, and Olga Choc Laj, 31, are ch...
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Lori Loughlin released after prison term in college scam
Dec 28, 2020 6:00 am - 'œFull House'ť actor Lori Loughlin was released from prison Monday after spending two months behind bars for paying half a million dollars in bribes to get her two daugh...
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Mormon church sued for alleged role in Boy Scouts sex abuse
Dec 28, 2020 6:00 am - PHOENIX (AP) - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was hit with several lawsuits Monday for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout tro...