Human remains were found inside a car pulled Tuesday from the Fox River that belonged to Karen Schepers, an Elgin woman who has been missing for nearly 42 years.
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, a Texas prosecutor said Tuesday.
Michael Lipford’s body was found with both arms and one leg severed and showed apparent attempts at further dismemberment, according to police.
A Will County judge sentenced Richard Proctor, 30, of Steger, to 40 years in prison for fatally stabbing Ryan Connell, 28, in 2020.
Luigi Mangione is asking for a laptop in jail, but just for legal purposes — not for communicating with anyone — as he awaits trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
A least two restaurants were burglarized within minutes of each overnight in the West Town neighborhood, Chicago police said. Officers on patrol saw damage to the front glass door of a restaurant shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday in the 1500 block of West Chicago Avenue and conducted a search of the business to discover the […]
An unusual new lawsuit filed by the Archdiocese of Chicago on Monday alleged a group of mostly West Side residents conspired for years to bring false allegations of sexual abuse against a notorious priest.
Authorities said they were questioning a person of interest about the shooting.
French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial Monday in Paris on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set, in a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France.
A Cook County judge on Monday ordered a 15-year-old boy held pending trial in the killing of a 16-year-old girl found beaten to death in East Garfield Park earlier this month.