While wildfires continue raging across California, destroying thousands of acres of land and homes, sources in snow-covered Lake County point out it has its own history of fires.
A preliminary hearing in a lawsuit between the brother of Trent McCain, former deputy mayor of Gary, and the city has been scheduled for later this month in Hammond’s U.S. District Court. Both parties are expected in court at noon on Jan. 27, according to court documents. In September, local attorney Russell Brown filed a complaint on behalf of Todd McCain, who is the Gary Sanitary District and Mayor Eddie Melton, alleging political retaliation when he was fired from his job with the city’s sanitary district. Melton responded to McCain’s claims on Nov. 20, and GSD responded on Dec. 9. […]
Area school districts might have been impacted by the cyberattack of a nationwide education software cloud-based platform called PowerSchool, used to store sensitive student data.
Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.
About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with promises of hardline immigration policies.
A Gary man is facing charges for fatally shooting a married couple in a “rampage-like” slaying, who were trying to help her sister and her three kids escape a violent situation in April, court records show.
A Chicago Heights teen, 17, is facing four years probation in a Griffith rape case.
The Palatine man who fatally struck a Wauconda High School teacher head-on in 2023, pleaded guilty to aggravated DUI in exchange for a six-year sentence.
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here’s what is happening today.
President Joe Biden’s administration announced Friday that it’s expanding sanctions against Russia’s critically important energy sector, unveiling a new effort to inflict pain on Moscow for its grinding war in Ukraine.