An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for a former Brennemann Elementary School principal after she failed to show up for her sentencing in an overtime kickback scheme. Sarah Jackson Abedelal, 61, had been scheduled to be sentenced at 10:30 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis. When the case was called, however, her lawyer, Jonathan […]
Prosecutors say a UK woman on electronic monitoring in a drug case sought out federal immigration authorities in an attempt to get deported and evade trial.
Word that a 35-year-old man had been shot to death spread rapidly up and down a two-block stretch of Gage Park Monday evening. Police said the man was standing outside on the 5200 block of South Washtenaw Avenue when someone drove up, took out a gun and fired at him from inside around 7:20 p.m. […]
Oasia Barnes, 69, of Gary, was charged in August with several felonies, including Level 1 felony rape, for kidnapping and assaulting a teen visiting Michael Jackson’s childhood home.
Authorities allege Paris “P Youngin’” Lewis fired the first shots at Marcus Williams. He is charged with murder and a gun enhancement. He faces up to 85 years, if convicted.
Authorities are searching for a man who on Monday escaped from the Leighton Criminal Court Building shortly after a judge ordered him detained while awaiting trial, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. Richard Donta Cotton, 32, appeared before Judge William Gamboney about 12:30 p.m. at the courthouse on multiple gun felony charges, according to […]
The FBI is looking for three men in connection the armed robbery of an armored vehicle Friday at U.S. Bank in Blue Island.
The Indiana Court of Appeals issued three opinions Monday, including one case where they upheld a Hammond man’s home invasion conviction. Valentine Torrez initially told police he was a victim, too, on Nov. 13, 2021, when a masked man entered his relative’s unlocked door in Hammond, blindfolded, then sexually assaulted her and the woman’s 12-year-old […]
Tom Mya Lyons, 18, was pronounced dead by after a single-vehicle crash following the Homewood-Flossmoor High School prom.
As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get derailed by regulations.