A Munster woman is charged in connection with a man’s June 1 death inside a Hammond apartment. Marysa Rodriguez, 22, appeared in court Thursday after she was charged with one count of murder in her boyfriend 22-year-old Alijah Adams’ shooting death.
An East Chicago man faces 16 years after he admitted he caused his two-month-old son’s death in 2022.
Jurors heard opening statements Friday in the trial of a man accused of killing two teen girls in a small Indiana community, horrific deaths that went unsolved for five years before investigators arrested a pharmacy employee who lived in the same town.
By any objective measure, the killing of Laquan McDonald a decade ago was the single most impactful police shooting in Chicago in more than 40 years, maybe ever.
Authorities charged a 21-year-old man with a felony for battery to a police officer following a contentious pro-Palestine rally at the University of Chicago Friday. A Chicago police officer attempting to disperse a group of protestors who surrounded a U. of C. police squad car said he felt someone — who was later identified as Manuel Rivera — shove him, kick him in the legs and strike him with an open hand on the left side of his face, according to an arrest report. Rivera was granted pretrial release during a Saturday detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, […]
Commuters on the CTA Brown Line may experience some delays Friday morning as trains were reported standing at Adams/Wabash due to Chicago Fire Department activity. The CTA website said crews were working Friday morning to restore service. For current updates on CTA travel please monitor the agencies alerts on its website.
A 35-year-old man who was involved in an argument with another passenger Thursday night on a CTA bus was stabbed in the back once he exited and a fight ensued, Chicago police said. About 9:35 p.m., the victim was involved in an argument on a CTA bus in the first block of West 79th Street. Once the victim and the person he was arguing with exited the bus the argument turned into a fight and the victim was stabbed in the back with a knife, police said. Police arrested the man’s attacker, and the victim was taken to UChicago Medicine […]
A 56-year-old man was taken into custody overnight after a bank was vandalized on the North Side in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 3 a.m., witnesses waved down officers patrolling the area in the 2000 block of North Halsted Street and told them that three people had vandalized a bank. When officers went to the bank they saw a broken window and words had been spray painted on the bank. Three suspects were seen fleeing the scene and officers were able to catch one of them, police said. The man, 56, wasm taken to Advocate Illinois […]
Brown admitted to making three $500 cash payments in 2019 to a person who he believed would wire the money to an ISIS fighter in Syria.
U.S. District Judge Gretchen Lund sentenced a Whiting man to 10 months in federal prison Wednesday after he threatened an interracial family next door — and their landlord — until they moved out. Brian O’Neill, 46, signed a plea deal in April in the U.S. District Court of Hammond for two counts of Interference with Housing based on Race and one count of Making False Statements to Law Enforcement, U.S. Attorney Clifford Johnson said in a release.