Crime and Public Safety

A 17-year-old is being held for murder after a mass shooting at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge left a high school senior dead and several other bystanders injured in the crossfire.

Federal officers found 22 firearms and over 40 kilograms of drugs inside a Chicago man's storage unit, according to the U.S. State's Attorney.

A Chicago man has been charged after sexually assaulting a woman while he was posing as her Uber driver, according to the DuPage County State's Attorney.

The Justice Department will allow firing squads and certain single-drug lethal injections for executions in an effort to “strengthen” the federal death penalty, the agency announced. 

Jake Reiner is speaking out for the first time about the tragic 2025 double murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, and the charges against his brother Nick.

A man convicted of killing a 42-year-old father in a 2022 Waukegan shooting was sentenced to 67 years in prison.

A College of Lake County staff member who worked at Wauconda High School has been charged with several felonies after allegedly grooming and soliciting students.

A man accused in a February 2022 shooting of a Dollar General employee in Waukegan has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.

Paige Shiver spoke out during a recent interview which detailed how she became pregnant with Sherrone Moore's child but had to terminate it due to a rare genetic disorder.

A 22-year-old woman was shot early Friday in the Washington Park neighborhood.

Chicago police are investigating a series of carjackings and armed robberies across four neighborhoods this past week.

A man was stabbed in the neck and seriously wounded Thursday night near Grant Park.

A group of thieves has repeatedly targeted a Near West Side neighborhood overnight for a week, stealing packages and belongings while being caught on surveillance, leaving residents concerned and on alert.

Multiple people were shot inside the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge Thursday.

A U.S. soldier was charged with using classified information about a mission to capture Nicolás Maduro to place bets.

A man arrested in connection with the accidental shooting death of Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera has pleaded guilty.

A North Carolina woman and a Houston-area teen were arrested and accused of conspiring to “kill as many Jews as possible" at Congregation Beth Israel in Houston.

An illegal immigrant living in a Chicago suburb with a criminal record, has been indicted after trying to unlawfully re-enter the country after he was deported, according to prosecutors.