Crime and Public Safety

A Florida doctor was taken into custody on Monday morning after a grand jury indicted him in an Alabama man’s operating room death.  

A man was injured in a shooting near Aurora’s downtown river area early Monday, authorities said.

An elderly woman is under investigation after allegedly robbing a bank in Alabama and then quickly turning herself in, police said.

A domestic disturbance in southwest suburban Orland Park left one man in custody and two police officers injured, authorities said.

Anna Kepner's 16-year-old stepbrother has been charged with first-degree murder after the 18-year-old Florida teenager was found dead aboard Carnival's Horizon cruise ship during a family vacation in November 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday.

A Chicago man was charged after allegedly threatening to "shoot up" a U.S. Secret Service office and "hunt" a federal agent last month.

An Arkansas woman is facing a felony theft charge after authorities say she refused to return nearly $20,000 that her employer accidentally overpaid her.

Multiple people were arrested after an anti-ICE protest took a bizarre turn in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend, officials said.

A suburban Chicago man is facing felony charges after sheriff's police searched his home.

A Chicago man has been charged with robbing someone at gunpoint last month in the Brighton Park neighborhood.

A pedestrian was killed in a crash Sunday night on the Near West Side.

A 10-year-old boy was killed and a man was critically injured in a fire Monday morning in the Washington Heights neighborhood.

Three men were hospitalized after a shooting in the Back of the Yards on Sunday, according to Chicago police.

A 3-month-old baby has died after her 18-year-old mother noticed she wasn't breathing in Englewood, according to Chicago police.

A woman in New Mexico is facing charges after falsely reporting her ex-boyfriend was bringing a bomb on a plane after his long-distance visit, police said, adding that the two had just broken up the night before.

One person has died after a shooting in suburban Oak Forest on Saturday, according to police.

A suspect was arrested and charged after several Chicago Fire Department vehicles were damaged over the past few weeks.

American Brian Hooker remains in a Bahamian jail as police investigate the disappearance of his wife, Lynette.