A Lake County man found guilty of sexually assaulting a person in Deerfield, who had a previous sex conviction in Cook County, has been sentenced to mandatory natural life in prison.

Chicago Documenters is partnering with Illinois Network for PreTrial Justice (INPJ) to document Cook County’s adherence to the 2023 SAFE-T Act’s Pretrial Fairness Act. This act replaced the county’s ...

You’ve heard the phrase: “Drive it like you stole it.” Great figure of speech. Not great life advice. A Chicago man might not be in jail right now if he’d been able to keep his stolen BMW between the ...

CHICAGO ( WGN) — A 23-year-old man faces home invasion charges after allegedly using a machete to break into his neighbor’s apartment after his request to hang out was rejected.

Patrón-Ladino has been charged with felony home invasion, along with multiple misdemeanor counts of assault, FOX 32 Chicago ...

The Cook County sheriff says the man asked his neighbor to hangout but was turned down. He then allegedly returned to the ...

North Texas entered the work week in freezing temperatures as cold air blanketed the region for a third day and Dallas-Fort ...

Marivel Azpeitia was driving from their home in Colorado Springs to Dallas with her fiancé to pick up her stepchildren for Christmas when the pair was pulled over by Texas law enforcement. It would be ...

Vikki Radford credits access to health care through CountyCare, a Medicaid plan, for keeping her alive by allowing her doctors to detect two types of cancers in the early stages. Radford, 64, of ...

Twenty people died in 2025 in the Harris County Jail, the state’s largest pre-trial detention system, which has faced years of understaffing, overcrowding and wrongful death lawsuits. The death toll ...