Emily S. Achenbaum

A raucous confrontation broke out Sunday outside Cook County Criminal Court after a Chicago police detective charged with causing a deadly auto crash while driving drunk was ordered released on...

Marni Yang had a history of harassing romantic rivals years before she was charged this week with killing Shaun Gayle's pregnant girlfriend, authorities said Thursday. Over the years Yang sent...

Eight months after his release from prison in 2000 for killing his wife, Richard Wiley married a popular secretary at the Wilmette church he had attended since childhood—despite misgivings from...

A Wilmette man who police say shot his wife and her teenage son to death Monday before taking his own life had spent 15 years behind bars for the murder...

A Wilmette man who police say shot his wife and her teenage son to death Monday before taking his own life had spent 15 years behind bars for the murder...

The case against a man accused of killing a 14-year-old girl hit by stray gunfire as she looked out a window ended in a mistrial Sunday. Cook County Assistant State's...

Prosecutors in Lake County were battling challenges to two high-profile murder cases Thursday in which the defendants are making strikingly similar claims of innocence -- that DNA testing exonerates them...

Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that God's divine plan for the world explains why President-elect Barack Obama won the election and that God will make sure Obama...

An Evanston police officer on the street three days was shot during a confrontation Wednesday with a convicted felon, who also was shot, sending both men to hospitals with injuries,...

A helicopter crashed through the roof of a Kenosha home in a residential neighborhood early Sunday morning, rolling down the second-story staircase and narrowly missing a sleeping family of five...