A college professor and leading researcher in the field of false confessions testified Wednesday he saw indications the woman charged with killing a toddler at a Lincolnshire day care center may have admitted doing something she did not. Richard Leo...

Printed agenda packets for the Carpentersville village board are now a thing of the past. Trustees approved the purchase of iPads at the board meeting Tuesday to give board members the chance to view agenda materials electronically. Staff members e...

Carpentersville Police Officer Eric Holzer was loading groceries into his car on a Sunday, off duty, when he saw one man being chased by another through the parking lot. The chaser yelled he needed help because the first man had just thrown a fire b...

Most of us have a clear memory of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 — where we were; how we reacted; and how the tears flowed as the day’s events unfolded. Would we ever be safe again? During the last 10 years, many safeguards have been put in place and sever...

Some of the biggest auto racing legends of the 1950s and 1960s once roared their hot rods around Meadowdale International Raceways in Dundee Township, near Carpentersville. The track’s history and some of the racers’ antics are captured in “The Midw...