Crime
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Glenview man convicted of selling 'ghost gun'Feb 07, 2022 12:00 am - A federal jury last week convicted a Glenview man of selling a "ghost gun" to a felon in Deerfield, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago said Monday in a news release. ...
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Pritzker, Raoul address surge in expressway shootings, organized retail thefts
Feb 07, 2022 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Two of the state's top officials each held news conferences Monday morning to outline responses to a surge in expressway shootings and organized retail the...
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Trump tirade on 'racist' DAs echoes other racist tropes
Feb 06, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Looking out at a sea of faces at a Texas fairground, most of them white, former President Donald Trump seethed about his legal troubles and blamed them o...
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AP investigation: Women's prison fostered culture of abuse
Feb 06, 2022 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Inside one of the only federal women's prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional offic...
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State AG races become litmus test for GOP election claims
Feb 06, 2022 6:00 am - Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, a Republican, has won re-election multiple times in a state where the GOP dominates politically and, in his telling, has 'œa 20-y...
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Jackson, in high court mix, traces law interest to preschool
Feb 06, 2022 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - When Ketanji Brown Jackson's younger daughter was 11, she drafted a letter to the president suggesting her federal judge-mom for a vacancy on the Supre...
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Chicago man charged in burglary of Naperville bike shopFeb 06, 2022 12:00 am - A Chicago man is in custody after a burglary in Naperville Sunday morning, according to a Naperville Police Department news release. Around 5:45 a.m., Naperville police ...
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Naperville police investigating report of shots fired early SundayFeb 06, 2022 12:00 am - Naperville police are investigating a report of shots fired early Sunday morning in the 1800 block of West Diehl Road. Police said the shooting initially was reported sh...
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Top German bishop doubts 'fresh start' after abuse crisis
Feb 05, 2022 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - The head of the German Bishops' Conference expressed doubts Saturday that the planned return of Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki as archbishop of Cologne follo...
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Demonstrators protest killing of Congolese refugee in Brazil
Feb 05, 2022 6:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Demonstrators gathered on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other Brazilian cities to protest the killing of a 24-year-old Congolese refuge...