1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (365+ words) A New Jersey man is in custody after police said he attacked two semis with an axe Friday on Interstate 80 in Hammond. Around 4:30 p.m., troopers were dispatched to the 1.9 mile-marker on I-80 eastbound in Hammond, near the Calumet Avenue overpass, for a…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (853+ words) Exactly one year after Silverio Villegas González was shot and killed by an immigration enforcement agent during a traffic stop, his neighbors returned to the stretch of Grand Avenue in the western suburbs where he died. But those who gathered…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (602+ words) Against a backdrop of growing public distrust of Flock Safety cameras, Elgin’s police chief said this week that the city doesn’t do business with the controversial company. Meanwhile, an internal audit of the city’s license plate readers found no instances…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (688+ words) A federal jury acquitted Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk in a murder-for-hire trial that has drawn celebrities, fans and content creators to a downtown Los Angeles courthouse. The Chicago rapper, whose given name is Durk Banks, was found not guilty found…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (438+ words) BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy shouldn’t be tried a second time for killing her three young children because prosecutors don’t have enough evidence, her lawyer told a judge Thursday, saying the court should decide she’s not guilty by reason of insanity. Eleven…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (264+ words) The Township High School District 113 Board of Education approved the resignation of a teacher charged with domestic battery during a special meeting Wednesday evening. Bridget Fahrner, formerly a world languages teacher with 23 years in the district, according to meeting documents,…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (332+ words) The alleged leader of a Northwest Indiana gambling ring must wait one week before action is taken on his request for early release. Another alleged member had his home detention status updated during a Thursday hearing. Both James “Jimmy the…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (396+ words) An Elgin man who stabbed his estranged wife — and her unborn child —- to death in 2024 has been sentenced to 65 years in prison. Pierre J. French, 38, of the 700 block of Bluff City Boulevard, pleaded guilty in May to the first-degree murder…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (309+ words) DETROIT — More than a dozen former hockey players are suing the University of Michigan, alleging their coach and other staff were aware of sexual hazing that included the forced shaving of their genitals and other abuse by teammates decades ago....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (303+ words) Authorities have accused a 15-year-old boy of killing Hyde Park Academy sophomore Eric Billops and wounding another student, a 16-year-old girl, in a shooting that rocked the South Side high school this spring. The Tribune is not naming the teen…...