Former Gary Mayor Jerome Prince was sentenced at the U.S. District Court in Hammond for using campaign funds to buy a home in the city’s Miller neighborhood.
A 41-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man were both found fatally wounded in a possible domestic-related shooting Thursday morning on the West Side, Chicago police said.
Lawyers for former House Speaker Michael Madigan formally rested their case before the jury on Thursday after calling 12 witnesses, most notably Madigan himself.
A person of interest was being questioned after a 35-year-old woman was critically wounded early Thursday morning in a shooting on the Northwest Side, Chicago police said.
A 41-year-old woman was fatally injured overnight when she lost control of a vehicle traveling on the southwest side and struck a pole, Chicago police said.
News from Lake County and federal courts
A Niles North High School security guard was stabbed following a rivalry basketball game that went into overtime.
Several members of the Chicago Fire Department falsified reports and misled investigators after a high-ranking department member was found slumped over the steering wheel over a vehicle in 2022, according to a new report from the city’s Office of Inspector General. In late May 2022, a civilian called 911 to report a motorist was asleep in a vehicle at a stoplight. The five responding CFD members found the unconscious driver to be an off-duty CFD assistant deputy paramedic chief, the report said. Responding Chicago Police officers were waved off, and one of the CFD members, an EMT captain, drove the […]
A Gary man recently confessed to police that he murdered his mother in 2018. Jamel Curtiz Scott, 53, is charged with murder and neglect of a dependent resulting in death, a Level 1 felony.
Arthur H. Schmidt III spoke about his mental health struggles during his sentencing hearing on the charge of causing the crash that killed a Chesterton Middle School teacher.