WIFE WITHDREW ORDER BEFORE TRIPLE SLAYING
Three months ago, a frightened Serena Languido went to Lake County Court and filed an emergency order of protection against her husband, Vincent. "He said this time he was going...
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OFFICER’S SHARP EYE LEADS TO ARREST OF THEFT SUSPECT
Hawthorn Woods Police Sgt. Stewart Gordon was driving home on Old McHenry Road near Illinois Highway 22 recently when he saw a teenage boy walking along the side of the...
KENTUCKY MAN, 18, CHARGED IN SLAYING
A man awaiting trial in Lake County Jail for two armed robberies in the county has been charged with murder in his hometown in Kentucky, authorities said Monday. Michael L....
JEWELRY VENDORS REPORT THEFT TOTALING $300,000
A Skokie couple have told police that burglars stole $300,000 worth of jewelry out of their van, which was parked Sunday night outside a Buffalo Grove restaurant. The couple had...
POLICE MAKE A NEW DIVE AT 1970S MYSTERY
Divers with hooks and prods probed the muddy bottom of a Lake County pond Tuesday, hoping to solve the mysterious disappearance of an Arlington Heights couple 24 years ago. The...
DROWNING VICTIM IDENTIFIED
Authorities on Monday identified the man who drowned over the weekend at Illinois Beach State Park in Zion as Donald Martinez, 35, of Waukegan. Martinez died about 6 p.m. Sunday...
RODEO PROTESTER SAYS HE WAS HIT
An animal-rights activist has filed a police report alleging he was punched while protesting this weekend's 31st annual Wauconda Rodeo. Steve Hindi, spokesman for the Chicago Animal Rights Coalition, said...
VACANT APARTMENT BURNS
No one was seriously injured in an apartment fire early Sunday, officials said. The cause of the blaze in a 12-unit apartment building at 1101 S. Park Ave., is under...
HUSBAND IS SHOT, KILLED AWAITING ESTRANGED WIFE
A 26-year-old North Chicago man was shot to death Sunday while waiting in his vehicle to pick up his estranged wife, officials said. Carlos A. Rodriguez, of 1732 Sheridan Rd.,...
5-MONTH SENTENCE FOR GOLDEN BOY
A former Vernon Hills village trustee who was a onetime rising star in Lake County politics was sentenced to 5 months in federal prison for bank fraud Thursday. Bradley Berman...