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Twin brothers were arrested after a man was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of a pizza restaurant in Wonder Lake Wednesday evening. The incident happened at Napoli’s Pizza, located at 7613 Howe Road in Wonder Lake, around 6:35 p.m. Wednesday. Read more...

School officials say they have identified a student or students involved after a threat of a shooting was made toward Edith Smith Middle School in Waukegan on Wednesday. Edith Smith Middle School Principal Yvonne Brown said in a message to parents on Wednesday that a potential threat was relayed to staff and law enforcement. Read [...]

This is always a hot debate, guns in the state of Illinois...So let's see where we are with this thing. There are 170 guns now banned in the state of Illinois, so what gives? MyStateline There are now 170 guns that are now banned in the state of Illinois. That's an awful lot, isn't it? [...]

The FBI responded to an incident of gunfire at another North Carolina substation early Tuesday, nearly two months after what authorities deemed criminal vandalism to the electric grid in Moore County, N.C., caused widespread outages for more than 45,000 customers during cold temperatures this winter.   The gunfire early Tuesday at a substation in Randolph [...]

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has introduced a bill to dissolve the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), declaring the agency’s recent move against stabilizing braces to be the “final straw.” The bill to “abolish” the ATF was introduced on Tuesday and has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, according to Congress.gov. Read [...]

Alec Baldwin will face involuntary manslaughter charges in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his movie “Rust.” Baldwin and “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said in a Thursday statement. Read more...

Several prison staff and inmates at a rural Illinois corrections center were hospitalized on Wednesday after exposure to an "unknown substance," which possibly caused a mass overdose, KTVI reported. According to officials, 18 employees from John A. Graham Correctional Center in Hillsboro were transported to local hospitals after becoming ill while responding to a "medical [...]

A 28-year-old man has been charged with murder after he allegedly fatally shot his ex-girlfriend in the head as officers were entering a residence in Zion Wednesday, authorities said. The Zion Police Department responded around 12:12 a.m. Wednesday to the 2700 block of Hebron Avenue for a report of a man attacking a woman with [...]

The McHenry County Human Trafficking Task Force arrested a Woodstock man who allegedly tried soliciting a child online for sex acts during a sting operation, prosecutors said. Woodstock Police Department Chief John Lieb and McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally said Wednesday that Jesus Cortez, 32, of Woodstock, was arrested during a human trafficking sting. [...]

The coroner has released the identity of a 20-year-old woman who was shot in the head allegedly by her ex-boyfriend as police were arriving to a 911 call at a residence in Zion. An autopsy performed Wednesday on Jaylen Crump, 20, of Zion, showed she died as a result of a gunshot wound to the [...]