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The occupants of a stolen vehicle fled on foot after crashing into multiple vehicles and a residence in Crystal Lake early Monday morning, police said. Crystal Lake Deputy Police Chief Richard Neumann said officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a black Chrysler 200 sedan around 12:10 a.m. Monday. Read more...

Authorities say a man armed with a baseball bat injured a woman during a home invasion and had to be tased by police, who arrested the non-compliant suspect in Antioch. The Antioch Police Department responded around 9:53 p.m. on February 23 to a residence in the Oakwood Knolls subdivision in Antioch for an open line [...]

A father is being held on a $2 million bond after police say he sexually assaulted and beat his own daughter, who is under the age of 13, on multiple occasions in Lake Villa. The Lake Villa Police Department was notified Wednesday by an area school after a child disclosed abuse to school officials. Read [...]

Border Patrol agents encountered 16 people registered on the FBI’s terrorist watch list illegally crossing the southern border in February — and appear set to encounter more this fiscal year than they did in the last. Customs and Border Protection data says a total of 69 people on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database have been [...]

Your National Rifle Association is the true gun-safety advocate in the United States, and has been for more than a century. While anti-gun groups can attempt to claim that distinction, it is simply not the case. The NRA is recognized worldwide as the gold standard for safe firearm training, with our programs having developed many [...]

A 17-year-old girl is in custody after driving with a man on her car’s hood and then running him over, critically injuring him in Beach Park, while leading police on a vehicle pursuit that ended in Cook County. A Lake County sheriff’s deputy was on patrol around 1:30 a.m. Monday in the 37800 block of [...]

A man faces up to life in prison after a jury convicted him on federal charges for robbing three banks, including one in Gurnee, with an AK-47 rifle, prosecutors said. James D. Williams, 46, of Bartlett, was found guilty of three counts of bank robbery, three counts of using a firearm during a crime of [...]

A woman has been charged in the homicide of her boyfriend, who was a father and a U.S. Navy veteran. Prosecutors allege she “gunned” her car before fatally running him over in Winthrop Harbor. Candace M. Wrobel, 36, of Winthrop Harbor, has been charged with one count of reckless homicide by motor vehicle, a Class [...]

DES PLAINES, Ill. — A man was arrested Saturday after allegedly beating and attempting to kill a woman inside a motel room. Just before 3:15 a.m., Des Plaines police responded to a Best Western, located in the 1200 block of Lee Street, on the report of a domestic battery. Read more...

Students in Maryland reportedly fought a man who tried to kidnap a middle-schooler at a bus stop in Gaithersburg on Monday morning, police said. Montgomery County police said the victim was standing at the bus stop in the 17600 block of Towne Crest Drive around 7:20 a.m. when the suspect allegedly grabbed the child and [...]