Crime
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Woman accused of helping steal Pelosi laptop freed from jail
Jan 21, 2021 6:00 am - HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania woman facing charges that she helped steal a laptop from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the attack on the U.S. Cap...
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Florida eye doctor gets clemency from Trump in health fraud
Jan 21, 2021 6:00 am - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Dr. Salomon Melgen once held political fundraisers at his palatial Florida home, hung out with prominent Democrats including New Jersey Sen. ...
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Bloomingdale doctor charged with trying to entice Glenview teen into sexual servitudeJan 21, 2021 12:00 am - A part-time emergency room physician was held on $250,000 bail Thursday on charges that he attempted to entice a Glenview 14-year-old to engage in sexually explicit beha...
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DuPage will have 2 new traffic courts when in-person business reopens Feb. 1Jan 21, 2021 12:00 am - When DuPage County traffic courts reopen for in-person business Feb. 1, two of them will be in new locations. The county is going ahead with its plan to permanently clos...
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Authorities: Father and son beat up private investigator while he was workingJan 21, 2021 12:00 am - A man and his adult son face felony charges after they beat a private investigator while he was conducting surveillance in his car on an Antioch Township street, Lake Co...
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US releases Detroit's disgraced former mayor from prison
Jan 20, 2021 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served more than seven years of a 28-year prison sentence for corruption crimes, was released from federal ...
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Trump pardons ex-strategist Steve Bannon, dozens of others
Jan 20, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon in the final hours of his White House term as part of a flurry of clemency action ...
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Ex-Arizona official to head to prison for illegal adoptions
Jan 20, 2021 6:00 am - PHOENIX (AP) - A former Arizona politician must report to prison Thursday to begin serving the first of three sentences for running an illegal adoption scheme that paid ...
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Man detained for throwing snowballs at Berlin US consulate
Jan 20, 2021 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - A 26-year-old was detained in Berlin - twice - after throwing snowballs and other projectiles at the American consulate and scuffling with security personn...
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Boats emerge from Sahara sand to transport migrants to Spain
Jan 20, 2021 6:00 am - DAKHLA, Western Sahara (AP) - Beneath a star-packed sky in the Sahara, smugglers and handymen unearth a boat buried in the sand, a made-to-order vessel for carrying migr...