Friends and relatives of Charles Baird gathered outside a Will County courtroom Wednesday, tears of relief streaming down their faces as they embraced one another after a judge convicted a Harvey man in the 19-year-old’s shooting death at a New Lenox gas station. Baird’s family waited almost five years for closure after their middle child […]
News from Lake County courts and the U.S. District Court in Hammond
Opening statements took less than 15 minutes Tuesday morning in the trial of Marcus Wright, the 35-year-old Michigan City man accused of causing the death of his girlfriend and catastrophic injury to their toddler son in an auto accident in Pine Township three years ago. Prosecutors say Wright’s blood alcohol level was over twice the legal limit and he tested positive for THC.
An unidentified woman was fatally wounded Monday night during an argument on a CTA Red Line platform, Chicago police said.
The family of Charles Baird, 19, killed at a New Lenox gas station in 2020, hopes for closure as a judge deliberates the case.
Zulma Daniela Calderon Pacheco, 21, of Chicago, was killed March 8 at the Mansion Live nightclub in Stone Park after being shot in the face, officials said.
More than a year into his tenure as head of the Chicago Police Department, Superintendent Larry Snelling on Monday announced the promotion of Yolanda Talley to the department’s second-in-command. Talley, a 30-year department veteran and most recently CPD’s Chief of the Bureau of Internal Affairs, will be the first Black woman to serve as CPD’s […]
A suspected burglar was arrested overnight after being found by police inside a retail business in the Chatham neighborhood. Shortly before 3 a.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a call of a burglary at a business in the 8600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue where someone entered through a rear door, police said. During a search […]
A 38-year-old pedestrian was pronounced dead Monday night after being struck during a three-car collision in the Clearing neighborhood on the Southwest Side, Chicago police said. Shortly before 11:15 p.m., officers responded to an auto accident in the 5200 block of West 63rd Street where three vehicles were involved in a collision, police said. A […]
A federal judge dismissed the charges Monday against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the 1939 musical “The Wizard of Oz” after prosecutors informed the court that he died on Sunday.