Crime
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Epstein files include child porn complaint a decade before federal investigation
Dec 20, 2025 4:56 pm - Justice Department files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, released Friday, included a 1996 complaint to the FBI about the disgraced financier allegedly possessing and distributing “child pornography” about a decade before a federal investigation was launched into his predatory behavior with minors and young women.
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Marengo man known for history programs is charged with possessing lewd images of children
Dec 20, 2025 2:05 pm - A Marengo man who has given historical presentations around the state, including at public libraries throughout the Chicago area, is being held in McHenry County jail on charges of possessing images depicting child sexual abuse.
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Man accused of YouTube threats to Barrington Hills police, Allstate employees found fit for trial
Dec 20, 2025 1:54 pm - A man who is accused of threatening on YouTube videos to shoot Barrington Hills police officers — and who had been deemed unfit to stand trial — has been restored to fitness, a judge ruled Thursday.
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Elgin man gets 22 years for gunrunningDec 19, 2025 5:45 pm - An Elgin man pleaded guilty Friday to gunrunning and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
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Justice Department begins releasing long-awaited files tied to Epstein sex trafficking investigation
Dec 19, 2025 3:11 pm - The Justice Department on Friday began releasing its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the files sealed.
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Schaumburg man indicted on murder charges in the death of his fatherDec 19, 2025 11:25 am - Cook County prosecutors on Friday announced the indictment against a 28-year-old Schaumburg man charged with fatally striking his father with a sledgehammer.
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Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say
Dec 19, 2025 8:06 am - A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
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Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing found dead, officials say
Dec 18, 2025 5:38 pm - Authorities said Thursday that they're looking into a connection between last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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‘Real and present threat’: Judge orders man charged in Schaumburg slaying detainedDec 18, 2025 1:35 pm - A Cook County judge detained the Niles man charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend on Dec. 16 in a Schaumburg parking lot.
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Police: Former boyfriend charged in deadly Schaumburg stabbingDec 17, 2025 10:09 pm - A Niles man is set to appear in court Thursday on allegations he stabbed a former girlfriend to death Tuesday in Schaumburg.