The Lake County sheriff's office's newest police dog helped his human partner capture two suspects within a 24-hour span last week. Ryker, a 2-year-old German shepherd, aided in the capture of a man hiding from deputies in a home, then later found a...

Authorities say a 30-year-old Lindenhurst woman caused a head-on crash while driving under the influence of alcohol with a 1-year-old boy in her truck Friday night in Beach Park. Shawn Weinberg, of the 2800 block of Falling Waters Drive, is charged ...

The Lake County sheriff's office is investigating an early Saturday shooting at a Wadsworth gas station. At about 4:10 a.m., sheriff's deputies responded to a report of shots fired at a gas station in the 41800 block of North Route 41, where they fo...

The Press & Journal, a weekly paper covering Middletown, a small town near Pennsylvania's capital, folded in July 2020 because its ad revenue collapsed in the pandemic. Its publishers, Joe and Louise Sukle, decided there was no future for the paper...

It's not unusual for children of police officers to consider following their parents' footsteps into the family business. But it's not every day that the career path starts at the top. That's where 16-year-old Madison Hecker will find herself this ...

Some journalists covering protests over the police fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, in suburban Minneapolis say officers have harassed and assaulted them despite a federal order to leave them alone. U.S. District Judge Wilhe...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa jury on Wednesday acquitted a journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest, in a case that critics have derided as an attack on press freedoms and an abuse of prosecutorial discreti...

TOPEKA, Kan. - Gov. Laura Kelly says she's 'œvery comfortable'ť with how Kansas is distributing COVID-19 vaccines despite U.S. government data showing its inoculation rate is the lowest of any state. The Democratic governor argued Monday that Kansas...

Lake County sheriff's police believe the man and woman found shot dead inside a Beach Park garage late Tuesday were murdered and are investigating the case as a double homicide. Sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Covelli said detectives investigated other p...