Smiles and wagging tails were aplenty Saturday throughout Cook Park during the Dog Days of Summer in Libertyville. The three-day event features nearly 45 vendors and six pet rescue organizations, a demonstration by the Lake County Sheriff's Office p...

Canine Elwood hasn't been officially sworn in, but the newest member of the Libertyville Police Department goes to roll calls and already has won the hearts of officers and village employees alike. “Everybody in the village wants to adopt him,” said...

Last month, the Yale School of Public Health held a ceremony to celebrate Bobbi Wilson, a 9-year-old Black kid from Caldwell, New Jersey, whose efforts to eradicate spotted lanternflies were seen as an environmentally progressive gesture. The ceremo...

The death of Black people at the hands of law enforcement has become so commonplace that it's easy to feel both outraged and psychologically numb. Over the past few decades from Rodney King to George Floyd, we have become front-row spectators to gra...

They're putting the band back together in more ways than one for the inaugural Blues Brothers Con this weekend at the Old Joliet Prison. Besides an appearance Friday night by the Blues Brothers - Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi, reprising his late brot...

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) - Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting a young Indiana police officer last month during an early morning traffic stop, officials announced Wednesday. Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cum...

ELWOOD, Ind. (AP) - A central Indiana city where a police officer was killed by gunshots fired into his cruiser is investing in bullet-resistant windshields for its 19 police vehicles. The Elwood Board of Public Works and Public Safety voted unanimo...

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) - A man accused of fatally shooting an Indiana police officer during a traffic stop had made a song about killing an officer, investigators said Monday. Carl Boards II was charged with murder and other crimes, a day after Elwood ...

It's not like somebody didn't care about what to do with 85-year-old Everet Lloyd Knabb when he died in 2000. His ashes are in a metal urn, inscribed with his birth year, death year and name — including his nickname, Jack. But who arranged that rema...