George Houde

A 43-year-old woman pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that she stabbed and slashed her parents to death in the Arlington Heights home they shared. Deborah Martin entered the formal...

A 24-year-old Texas man convicted of killing a friend in what prosecutors described as an execution-style murder committed over a dispute involving a male massage business was sentenced to 50...

Friends of Tiffany Thrasher became worried when she didn't show up to sing in the church choir for Easter Sunday services two years ago and didn't return phone calls and...

In a rare court ruling, a Cook County judge Wednesday overturned his own first-degree murder verdict against a Chicago man who beat and shot his cousin, and instead convicted him...

The dream home became a nightmare, the happy couple became hostile and the marriage ended in homicide, Cook County prosecutors alleged Thursday as they began the murder trial of a...

In the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 28, 2000, Frank Buschauer of South Barrington called 911 and asked for help. He told the dispatcher his wife had been in the couple's...