A Streator man was found guilty of murder in connection with a 2021 shooting that left one man dead in Montgomery.

Members of the Elgin Police Department and the nonprofit Chaos Divers use sonar to search for Karen Schepers and her 1980 Toyota Celica in the Fox River on March 24, 2025, in Elgin. (Stacey ...

Karen Schepers, a 23-year-old woman who went missing in 1983, was positively identified from human skeletal remains found in ...

ELGIN, Illinois -- Skeletal human remains have been found inside ... The WLS-TV news helicopter was over the scene as crews ...

Schepers, 23, was last seen around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983, after leaving PM Bentley’s, a bar located in the Meadowdale Shopping Center in Carpentersville. She was there with co-workers and according ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Illinois has become the first state in the nation to ensure that public schools, hospitals and other state-run institutions like prisons offer halal and kosher meals to those who ...

A 62-year-old grandmother was killed while having an overnight "conjugal visit" with her convicted murderer husband at a California prison, according to reports. David Brinson, 54, was found ...

Georgia lawmakers have approved a $250 million budget to improve prison conditions, including hiring 700 new guards and increasing staff salaries. Monique Monge, whose son died in custody ...

A former East Troy music teacher convicted of sexually assaulting students was sentenced to prison. In court on Thursday ... Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or ...

three men were convicted in 2023 at the first trial surrounding U.S. claims about “Operation Fox Hunt.” Two of those defendants have been sentenced to prison; the third is awaiting sentencing.

An employee at the Fox River Mall location said their store would close at the end of this month. They didn’t know the specific date. Forever 21 said it will hold liquidation sales at its United ...

With inmate suicide rates at an all-time high, U.S. District Senior Judge Kimberly Mueller said her aim is to force changes in California’s prison mental health system, which a federal judge in ...