A 17-year-old boy was shot and wounded Tuesday near Chicago Vocational Career Academy on the city’s South Side, according to Chicago police. The teen was shot from a van as he walked along the 2000 block East of 87th Street — a block from the high school — around 4:15 p.m., police said. The teen, […]
Prosecutors filed to dismiss the case against Madyson Moyer after a jury acquitted her on a battery charge and deadlocked on neglect.
Democratic state Sen. Emil Jones told FBI agents who knocked on his door in September 2019 that he never felt “comfortable” talking to his longtime colleague, then-state Sen. Martin Sandoval, particularly about a red light camera company executive who wanted to be his “friend.”
Since the city’s consent decree was entered more than six years ago, the independent monitoring team has often stressed that the Chicago Police Department must bolster its data collection and analysis efforts. How often officers point their weapons and use force, how they are trained, when and where they are deployed are just a few […]
A 25-year-old man was fatally wounded Tuesday morning in a drive-by shooting in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 6:45 a.m., the victim was outside in the 700 block of North Spaulding Avenue when a vehicle pulled up and at least one person inside the vehicle opened fire, striking the victim multiple […]
Nurmuhammed Inus of the 2700 block of West Balmoral Avenue was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Mairunnisa B. Osman, police said.
Investigators worked Tuesday to uncover the motive behind an arson fire over the weekend at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion, the latest act of political violence in the U.S.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled the Sunday stabbing death of Yonangel X. Martinez, 33, a homicide in a Monday autopsy.
A federal prosecutor in New York said Monday that lawyers for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs are looking for reasons to delay a sex trafficking trial slated to start in three weeks.
When Lake Station police officers responded to a call on April 3, they found Bradley Brooks outside, armed with a black machete. He just threatened to kill his sister. After a tense situation, an officer shot him three times with a less lethal shotgun before he was arrested.