Crime
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Rapper G Herbo charged in fraud plot to buy trips, puppies
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - The rapper G Herbo, his promoter and others have been charged in a scheme to use stolen credit card information to pay for trips on private jets, exotic ca...
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In video, Trump recycles unsubstantiated voter fraud claims
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Increasingly detached from reality, President Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the election r...
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Barr's special counsel move could tie up his successor
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Outgoing Attorney General William Barr's decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate the handling of the Russia probe ensures his successor wo...
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Trump expected to flex pardon powers on way out door
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Advocates and lawyers anticipate a flurry of clemency action from President Donald Trump in the coming weeks that could test the limits of presidential...
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29 inmates charged in deadly 2018 South Carolina prison riot
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Twenty-nine inmates have been charged in connection with a South Carolina prison riot that left seven inmates dead and 22 injured in 2018, the stat...
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Trump aide banned from Justice after trying to get case info
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The official serving as President Donald Trump's eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure sta...
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Czernek steps down as Bloomingdale Twp. roads chief after months of scandalDec 03, 2020 12:00 am - After 11 months in the shadow of an FBI corruption probe, Bloomingdale Township Highway Commissioner Robert Czernek has resigned, officials said Thursday. Czernek's deci...
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Chicago man charged in Addison gas station robberyDec 03, 2020 12:00 am - A Chicago man was charged Thursday with robbing an Addison gas station at gunpoint in January. Bail for Queshane Jefferson, 22, whose last known address is on the 200 bl...
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Batavia bar fight leads to COVID-19 cease and desist notice
Dec 03, 2020 12:00 am - Police were called to a fight at a bar and ended up issuing a cease and desist notice because the business was open when it should not have been, due to Gov. J.B. Pritzk...
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Court: Enough evidence to send Rittenhouse to trial in Kenosha protest shootings
Dec 03, 2020 12:00 am - There is enough evidence to warrant a trial for an Antioch teen accused of killing two men and wounding a third during a night of unrest in Wisconsin, a court commission...