Crime
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'It's in its very infancy right now': Kane County sets up its own forensic crime lab
Jul 28, 2023 1:00 am - Kane County's first forensic crime lab is now open, and the new facility has already taken on several cases. "We do everything from blood testing to rapid DNA ... to exp...
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Arizona mom never stopped looking for her daughter. Alicia Navarro appeared 4 years later in Montana
Jul 28, 2023 1:00 am - HAVRE, Mont. - When Alicia Navarro disappeared in 2019 from her home in a Phoenix suburb days before her 15th birthday, she left a signed note for her family promising s...
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Metea Valley choir teacher pleads guilty to sexually assaulting studentJul 28, 2023 1:00 am - A former Metea Valley High School choir teacher pleaded guilty Friday to sexually assaulting a student. Nathan Bramstedt, 43, of the 600 block of Pimlico Street in Osweg...
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Portugal is starting the atoning process for clergy sex abuse. Here's what other countries have done
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - VATICAN CITY - While the Catholic Church in the U.S., Australia and some other countries began coming to terms with their clergy sexual abuse legacies years ago and set ...
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Judge allows Prince Harry's snooping lawsuit against publisher of The Sun tabloid to go to trial
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - LONDON - Prince Harry 's lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully snooping on him can go to trial, but not on allegations of phone hacking or incl...
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Sentencing is set for Arizona mother guilty of murder and child abuse in starvation of her son
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - An Arizona mother who pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in the death of her 6-year-old son who was kept i...
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Trump says his lawyers have met with prosecutors ahead of possible 2020 election indictment
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Donald Trump met Thursday with members of special counsel Jack Smith's team ahead of a potential indictment over the former president's efforts ...
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Naperville resident guilty of sexually abusing girl he met on appJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - A DuPage County jury on Thursday convicted a Naperville resident of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl he met on social media After a three-day trial, James Nead, 30, w...
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Judge sees dark writings of Michigan school shooter who could get life in prison
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - PONTIAC, Mich. - A teenager who killed four fellow students at a Michigan high school in 2021 wrote about his plans in a journal, detailing how he would target his victi...
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Huntley man sentenced for Carpentersville home invasionJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - A Huntley man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison after pleading guilty to a Carpentersville home invasion. The Kane County state's attorney's office on Thursday an...