Crime
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Des Plaines police: Man had loaded gun, alcohol in carOct 26, 2021 1:00 am - A South suburban man is facing charges after Des Plaines police found a loaded handgun and a cup of alcohol in his car during a search, authorities said Tuesday. Joshua ...
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Northbrook tech executive admits illegally exporting computer equipment to PakistanOct 26, 2021 1:00 am - A Northbrook man accused of illegally exporting computer equipment to a Pakistani government nuclear research agency pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday. Obaidullah ...
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Sudan's military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister
Oct 25, 2021 7:00 am - CAIRO (AP) - Sudan's military seized power Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the prime minister, and thousands flooded the stree...
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Ex-Saudi official claims damaging intel against crown prince
Oct 25, 2021 7:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A former senior Saudi security official who helped oversee joint counter-terrorism efforts with the United States claimed in an interv...
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Hostage families to Biden: 'Bring our fellow Americans home'
Oct 25, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Relatives of more than two dozen American hostages and wrongful detainees held overseas told President Joe Biden in a letter on Monday that they questi...
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Assistant director of Baldwin film fired after 2019 mishap
Oct 25, 2021 7:00 am - SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer last week had been fired from a previous job after a gun went ...
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Tennessee senator indicted on campaign cash scheme charges
Oct 25, 2021 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee state senator and a Nashville social club owner were indicted on charges that they violated campaign finance laws by illegally concea...
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GOP election chief who rejects fraud claims up for fed job
Oct 25, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A Republican secretary of state who challenged former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud in 2020 is the front-runner for a job hea...
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Leyden Twp. woman accused of suffocating newbornOct 25, 2021 1:00 am - A Leyden Township woman has been charged with first degree murder after she suffocated her newborn child and buried him in her backyard, according to the Cook County she...
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Chicago man charged in Downers Grove carjacking attemptOct 25, 2021 1:00 am - Bail has been set at $500,000 for a Chicago man accused of trying to carjack a woman last month at a Downers Grove gasoline station. Demario L. Butler, 30, of the 4300 b...