An online ad promoting next week's Dunkin' Donuts' "Cop on a Rooftop" fundraiser for Special Olympics features a couple of familiar faces in DuPage County law enforcement circles. The video pairs Westmont Deputy Chief Brian Gruen and Special Ol...

For the 15th year in a row, law enforcement officers from throughout the state will stake out Dunkin' Donuts rooftops to support Special Olympics Illinois on Friday, May 19, beginning at 5 a.m. Officers hope to top last year's donation total of $67...

It doesn't happen too often that the emcee of a fundraising event for a local organization or agency airs his dirty laundry to humanize the reason for everyone attending. Scott Mackay, the host of Mackay in the Morning at Aurora-based 95.9 The River...

Another stunner in Boston as Bulls take 2-0 series lead Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade scored 22 points each, while Rajon Rondo barely missed a triple-double as the Bulls stunned Boston again 111-97 on Tuesday to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round p...

Just more than 36 hours after an 87-year-old Westmont woman was raped and robbed in her apartment, authorities already were closing in on her attacker. That's when police found a gun with her DNA and that of 23-year-old Tevin Rainey in a car Rainey ...

The National Weather Service has issued a freezing rain advisory warning of slick roads in the suburbs until 9 a.m. today. The advisory for an area including Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties warns of the possibility of freezing rain "ar...

Tevin Rainey told police investigating the rape and robbery of an 87-year-old Westmont woman that he was in Chicago on the night of Dec. 31, 2014, "getting drunk and getting high" with his cousin and a friend. During his interrogation on Jan. 3, 201...

An 89-year-old woman on Tuesday testified about how she was raped and robbed two years ago by an intruder inside her Westmont apartment. Her testimony came during the trial of Tevin Rainey in DuPage County Court. Rainey, who has no known permanent ...

A look back at some of the crime and justice stories that grabbed headlines in 2016 ... January Murder-suicide: A 55-year-old man, Daniel Kudrna, shoots his estranged wife, Catherine Lee Kudrna, 54, and then himself inside their Bloomingdale home....