Federal prosecutors Wednesday played a tape of an Oak Brook man laughing gleefully as he recounts to an informant how police got his getaway vehicle wrong in a 2003 bombing. "It wasn't us," laughed Sammy Volpendesto in the recording. "No, we didn't ...

Grayslake • Phillip J. Ash, 17, 531 Scott Ave., Grayslake, and Erik D. Cohen, 17, 1105 Chadwick Drive, Grayslake, were arrested July 26 on the 400 block of South Route 83, police said. Ash was charged with possession of marijuana and his Waukegan co...

Chicago police say two people, including a teenager, have been fatally shot in the South Austin neighborhood of the city's West Side. Officers say the shootings took place Saturday afternoon on North Lotus Avenue just north of Washington Boulevard. ...

Fox Lake • Vandals bent the main door and damaged the wood trim between 5 and 10:30 p.m. July 17 on a garage at a home on the 0-100 block of Lakeside Lane, police said. A damage estimate was not available. Grayslake • Reynold J. Sanfilip, 22, 32200 ...

Route 120 bridge done: The Route 120 bridge over the Tri-State Tollway has reopened on schedule, with two through lanes of traffic in each direction. Lane reductions had been in place since August 2007, when work began to rebuild and lengthen the br...

Elgin • A witness to a traffic accident at 10 p.m. Tuesday at Shales Parkway and Bode Road told police the driver of one of the vehicles stopped, picked up his front bumper off the street, placed it in his Jeep Cherokee and drove off. Anthony DiLore...

A 17-year-old boy died in an aparent drowning Wednesday at an apartment complex swimming pool in Waukegan. Lake County Coroner Richard Keller identified the victim as Darius Smith of North Chicago. Keller said the teen had been swimming at an apart...

Arlington Heights • A 2003 Mazda Tribute SUV in the Metra lot at 2121 W. Northwest Hwy. was broken into and four CDs, an umbrella, MP3 adapter, loose change and a black belt stolen between 7 p.m. July 26 and 10 a.m. July 27. Damage and the theft wer...

The future North Aurora police station remains on schedule as the village board this week unanimously approved a construction manager for the facility to be located at the northwest corner of Route 31 and Airport Road. Chicago-based Berglund Constr...

A reverse prostitution sting conducted earlier this month by the Cook County sheriff's department in Leyden Township netted seven arrests, the department announced late Monday. Authorities said the men were arrested after offering money in exchange...