Crime and Public Safety

Five people, including a teen, were shot overnight on Chicago's South Side. Here’s what we know.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, his family revealed.

Police say the child rang a doorbell and ran away from the home, then was shot.

Chicago Police are warning of a string of business burglaries in Englewood, Grand Crossing, Wentworth, and Harrison.

Weston Halsne, the 10-year-old boy who spoke to reporters in a now-viral video after the Annunciation mass shooting, will need surgery to have a bullet fragment removed from his neck.

Three men were shot, one fatally, on the city’s Lower West Side early Sunday morning.

An arrest was made in the shooting that left a 15-year-old dead and a 12-year-old hurt on Chicago's South Side last Thursday.

Multiple mass shootings overnight left 11 people injured overnight in Chicago.

The 12-year-old nonverbal boy whose body was found weeks after he went missing in New Orleans was reportedly subjected to horrific abuse by his mother.

A North Carolina elections official resigned this week after he was arrested for reportedly spiking his grandchildren’s ice cream with illegal drugs.

A Chicago man was arrested and charged in connection with the stabbing and injuring of a 43-year-old man on the city’s South Side on Thursday.

Two women were shot, one fatally, inside an apartment on the city’s South Side overnight.

A man has been arrested in connection with a November 2024 hotel shooting that left a 26-year-old man critically injured, police said.

Under federal law, the president can only send in the National Guard if the governor requests it, except in extreme circumstances. But he is free to send more ICE agents.

The husband of a woman found dead in a South Loop condo stairwell has pleaded no contest in a Michigan court to domestic abuse and violating a no-contact order.

A suburban couple was arrested after investigators found their three children living in a urine- and feces-covered basement and uncovered child pornography on the father’s devices, authorities said.

The officers who have been granted a new trial in the federal case were acquitted of state murder charges in May.

A suspect is in custody after residents in a Joliet neighborhood were told to shelter in place Friday afternoon during what officials described as an “active incident.”

Video of the confrontation included a verbal dispute between two men before it escalated into a physical altercation.