Rising temperatures through Monday's unseasonably warm forecast of 49 degrees will undoubtedly be a physical relief to suburban residents who've suffered through this week's historic lows, but the accompanying thaw could trigger some problematic flo...

Police officers risk their health just by showing up for their jobs every day. They tear knee ligaments chasing suspects, get bit by people they're arresting, slip on ice at crime scenes and are hit by cars while investigating accidents. And then th...

Round Lake Park police are investigating an argument between two groups of teens that led to gunfire and three injuries late Tuesday, authorities said. Police Chief George Filenko said a group of teens confronted a second group about 10 p.m. at a h...

A look back at some of the biggest news stories of the year in DuPage County ... January Push to rename post office: A renewed effort to rename the Warrenville post office after an Army medic killed in Iraq begins to gain steam. High school classm...

In the most significant symbol of the blue wave that swept over Lake County on Election Day, Sandy Hart has been named the county board's first Democratic leader. Hart, of Lake Bluff, was elected chairwoman Monday during a special re-organizational ...

Phillip LaPointe strolled into a Elmhurst gas station four decades ago, showed off a .22-caliber revolver to his pal working behind the counter and declared that he was going to kill a cabdriver, authorities say. Then he walked two blocks away to fi...

In the parking lot of a DuPage County forest preserve, a distraught man sits in the driver's seat of his car with both hands to his face and a semi-automatic handgun at his side. Outside, four forest preserve district police officers are positioned ...

Billed as "America's Night Out Against Crime," National Night Out encourages residents to lock their doors, turn on their porch lights and spend the evening getting to know their neighbors, police officers, firefighters and other city officials. ...

IDYLLWILD, Calif. - Fire stoked by hot and windy weather raged through a forest in far northern California on Thursday. In mountain communities east of Los Angeles, calmer conditions aided firefighters on the lines of a suspected arson wildfire that...

The second day of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Kemper Lakes in Kildeer Friday featured intense heat and humidity that made it feel like it was in the low 100s, conditions that were expected to continue through the weekend. But with a blue sk...