Bartlett police recently arrested six juveniles, aged 11 to 15, after receiving a report of juveniles trespassing in an old home on Bartlett Elementary School property. Authorities said police entered the house at 3 p.m. Nov. 19 and discovered one j...

Installation of camera-enforcement equipment began last week at Randall Road and Acorn Lane in Lake in the Hills, and police expect the system will be working by Saturday. Once operational, the red-light camera will take pictures of vehicles that fa...

A 16-year-old Chicago boy was charged Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a University of Chicago graduate student from Senegal and a string of armed robberies around the campus, police said. Eric Walker gave a videotaped statement, with a parent pre...

Batavia • Pedro L. Jara, 22, of 1002 Lorlyn Circle, Apt. 2A, was charged with retail theft after an incident at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday at Kohl's, 251 N. Randall Road, according to a police report. Kane County • A privately owned LanClair Columbine 350 a...

A part-time security guard at Niles North High School is free on $50,000 bond after being accused of having sex for several months with a 15-year-old girl in Harwood Heights. Authorities say 27-year-old Mark Mendez of Chicago was charged with aggrav...

Illinois gun-control advocates handed out their 2007 awards Monday in Chicago, aware that the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court may make the biggest impact on gun control when they hand down a decision next year on the constitutionality of Was...

Batavia • Clifton Clemons, 21, of 1270 Nantucket Road, Aurora, was charged with criminal damage to property after an incident on the 1300 block of East Wilson Street at 2:03 a.m. Saturday, according to a police report. • Kimberly Hoang, 17, of 450 K...

Fox Lake • Burglars stole a desktop radio/CD player overnight Nov. 2-3 out of an unlocked 2002 Ford Focus parked at a home on the 0-100 block of Mark Lane, police said. Value was estimated at $40. Grayslake • Michael D. Laws, 17, 4715 Middle Road, G...

A Chicago police officer charged with drunken driving in a car crash that killed two men and injured another has been relieved of police powers and assigned to desk duty pending an internal investigation of the allegations. John Ardelean, 33, was of...