James W. Lewis, long the leading suspect in the 1982 Tylenol killings that brought widespread panic to the suburbs and nationwide reforms in medication product packaging, has died. The 76-year-old's death - confirmed after authorities found him unre...

Authorities seized cocaine, cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms from a 31-year-old Oak Forest man during a traffic stop in Gurnee earlier this month, officials said. The driver, Zachary L. Patient, was indicted by a Lake County grand jury last week on...

Legislation that will allow law enforcement agencies to use drones to surveil large public gatherings, such as the Highland Park Fourth of July parade where a rooftop shooter killed seven people and injured more than 50 others last year, recently pa...

Additional charges have been filed against the driver who officials say caused a three-vehicle crash in Mettawa that impaled a passenger in her car with a wooden fence post in March. Jariah Terrell, 24, of Chicago is charged with three counts relate...

One person was impaled by a wooden fence post and critically injured Monday afternoon in a three-vehicle crash in Mettawa that investigators said was caused by a driver speeding away after a retail theft in Vernon Hills. Three others were hospitali...

Authorities in three Lake County jurisdictions are investigating events involving two stolen cars, a high-speed escape and a crash involving a third vehicle that began early Wednesday in Mundelein. It started about 4:30 a.m., when Mundelein police i...

Since last February, a program that partners police officers with social workers to form mental health crisis response units has offered help to more than 1,200 Lake County residents. The program is an expansion of the Lake County sheriff's Crisis O...

The Lake County Forest Preserve District has a new director of public safety for the first time in more than 15 years. Ron Davis, a 34-year law enforcement veteran, began his duties Monday. He succeeds John Tannahill, who retired as of Tuesday. Tann...

The family of cyclist Nancy Nozicka said Thursday they now have some closure after a Libertyville driver was cited following a fatal crash this summer in Lake County. Nozicka's bicycle was hit by a 2005 Toyota 4Runner July 10 as she traveled south o...

MISSION, Kan. - Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing abo...