Crime
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Former CEO of Schaumburg firm sentenced to 30 days for Capitol breach
Nov 12, 2021 12:00 am - A federal judge sentenced a former Schaumburg CEO to 30 days in jail Friday for his role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach, according the U.S. attorney's office in Washi...
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Bannon indicted on contempt charges for defying 1/6 subpoena
Nov 12, 2021 12:00 am - MARKS, Miss. - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, was indicted Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied a congressional ...
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Catholic order found California abuse complaint credible, then moved priest to Chicago area
Nov 12, 2021 12:00 am - The Rev. Timothy Keppel was overseeing two parishes near San Bernardino, Calif., when a man told the diocese there that, while in his teens, he'd been repeatedly sexuall...
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Plainfield man charged in Islamic school burglary in WheatonNov 12, 2021 12:00 am - Wheaton police announced Friday that a Plainfield man had been arrested after a burglary at an Islamic school. Dylan Sparks, 30, of the 4800 block Clover Lane, is charge...
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Jury to get to weigh some lesser charges in Rittenhouse case
Nov 12, 2021 12:00 am - KENOSHA, Wis. - The jurors who will decide Kyle Rittenhouse's fate will be allowed to consider lesser charges if they opt to acquit him on some of the original counts pr...
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EXPLAINER: What's behind the crisis at Belarus-Poland border
Nov 11, 2021 6:00 am - Thousands of migrants and refugees have flocked to Belarus' border with Poland, hoping to get to Western Europe, Many of them are now stranded at the frontier, setting u...
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Cambodia dismisses US sanctions as 'politically motivated'
Nov 11, 2021 6:00 am - PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Cambodia on Thursday dismissed as 'œpolitically motivated'ť sanctions imposed by the United States on two senior defense officials over alleg...
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Veterans Day legislation targets GI Bill racial inequities
Nov 11, 2021 6:00 am - For Veterans Day, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reviving an effort to pay the families of Black service members who fought on behalf of the nation during World War ...
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Program to kill Grand Canyon bison nets 4 animals, criticism
Nov 11, 2021 6:00 am - FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Day three and the shooters were waiting under the cover of pine trees for the rain to let up. Thirty minutes later, a single branch snapped, reve...
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France: Life sentence for killing of Holocaust survivor
Nov 11, 2021 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - A French man has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor to death in an antisemitic attack, a case that triggered wi...