Gary Mays

A 25-year-old Lake Villa-area man was killed over the weekend when his car veered off Grass Lake Road in Antioch and slammed into a tree. Killed was Christopher Baade, of...

A 19-year-old mother was killed and a 50-year-old woman critically wounded over the weekend, both apparently unintended victims of separate gang-related shootings. In another gang-related incident, a 16-year-old boy was...

Though some north suburban towns aren't quite ready for Metra's new North Central Line, the commuter rail agency is sticking firm to its plan to start running trains Monday. Metra...

The pilot of a glider that crashed shortly after takeoff last week from the Waukegan Regional Airport did not die of a heart attack, officials said Tuesday. "We can rule...

Police on Monday issued an arrest warrant for a suspect in a weekend shooting that wounded three men. A group was in a nightclub parking lot at 1816 Washington St....

The Cook family of La Paz, Ind., never had any reason to suspect that their father's life was in danger when the ringing of a phone pierced the early-morning quiet...

Cecil Adams never feared his unusual airplane. Ever since he bought it in 1985, the "powered glider" provided him with countless hours of enjoyment, soaring effortlessly through the clouds, far...

The warning signs are all there. Beer bottles lined up on Kamikaze Bridge. Boaters motoring away from waterfront taverns after hours of drinking. At times, the marine police who patrol...

A weeklong dispute between two construction workers ended in violence last Tuesday when one of the men sliced the other with a utility knife, sending him to Lake Forest Hospital...

The medical license of a Waukegan doctor convicted of illegally prescribing drugs to undercover agents in 1995 has been suspended for three years, state officials said Tuesday afternoon. John B....