Crime
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Domestic-violence cases up during pandemic, Kane prosecutor saysOct 06, 2020 1:00 am - More cases of domestic violence were filed during the first five months of the COVID-19 pandemic than during the same period last year, Kane County State's Attorney Joe ...
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Democratic chairman delays further hearings in Madigan probe until after electionOct 06, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The chairman of the Special Investigating Committee probing whether Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan played a role in a ComEd bribery scheme said Tue...
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Gurnee police searching for suspects in shooting of teenager MondayOct 06, 2020 1:00 am - Gurnee police are searching for suspects in the shooting Monday of a teenage boy near the intersection of Stearns School and Dilleys roads. Det. Shawn Gaylor said the sh...
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Elgin man charged with sexual assaultOct 06, 2020 1:00 am - A 65-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Elgin. Bail was set Tuesday at $500,000 for McKinley L. Davis, who is charged with one count of cr...
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Trump seizes on small election issues to spread concern
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Nine ballots discarded in Pennsylvania. A mail carrier who altered a handful of affidavit ballot applications. People being sent double ballots. In th...
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Thomas Jefferson Byrd, known for Spike Lee films, killed
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, known for his roles in Spike Lee films, has been shot and killed in Atlanta, police said Sunday. Police responded to a call a...
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Trial opens for failed Islamic State attack on French church
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - LYON, France (AP) - A 29-year-old Algerian man went on trial Monday in Paris accused of killing a woman and trying to blow up a church near Paris, a failed 2015 attack t...
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Justices reject South Dakota's only death row inmate's case
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court refused on Monday to take up an appeal from South Dakota's only death row inmate, who pleaded guilty to taking part in a torture kill...
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Rochester mayor pleads not guilty in campaign finance case
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, who has faced calls to resign over her city's handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude at the hands of pol...
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Police chief, city official plead guilty in hiring scam
Oct 05, 2020 7:00 am - HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Two former officials of Connecticut's largest city pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges stemming from what prosecutors called a corrupt proces...