For Crime Witnesses, Family Safety Can Outweigh A Community's Security
"I was approached with the opportunity to not go to prison, provided I gave information on everybody in the neighborhood. I decided against it."
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"I was approached with the opportunity to not go to prison, provided I gave information on everybody in the neighborhood. I decided against it."
A major railroad is fighting back against accusations it's trying to lure people into stealing goods from freight cars.
Friends of the surviving victim said he works as a painter on the South Side, and might have been on a job when something went horribly wrong.
Residents think the cameras can help Chicago police and hopefully serve as a deterrent to more crime.
Police in Kentucky say a woman who got tired of waiting for her relatives to pick her up from the hospital stole an ambulance.
Three people have died and two others are injured, following a string of shootings early Wednesday, just hours after Chicago police announced plans to deploy hundreds of extra officers to neighborhoods most plagued by gun violence.
Surveillance video from an alley in Bucktown gives a clear look at what becomes a crime in progress.
A group of cows decided to chase down and herd the woman into custody after she invaded their field.
Luckily the boy was not hurt and now a local hardware store has stepped up to help the young man's landscaping business.
After an especially violent people saw 66 people shot in Chicago, police officials plan to deploy extra officers to neighborhoods that recently have suffered a surge in gun violence.
Kyle Brown is crediting his pit bull Petey with saving his, and his family's lives after a gunman barricaded himself inside his Romulus home on Friday.
A group of religious and community leaders in Chicago called for a new way to end gun violence, saying what City Hall is doing isn't working.
The annual event is designed to raise awareness about drug prevention programs, neighborhood watch groups, and other crime-fighting efforts.
Two carjackers in Tennessee were foiled when they ran into something completely unexpected in their victim's car: a manual transmission.
In a series of four tweets overnight, Rudy Giuliani twice mistakenly referred to McCarthy as "Jerry," twice misspelled Mayor Rahm Emanuel's last name, and falsely claimed 63 people had been murdered over the weekend.
What started as a search for a 3-year-old Georgia boy led to a horrid discovery 1,400 miles away.
Johnson said, while investigators have "really good leads" on several of the shootings, police have not made any arrests.
A string of mass shootings Sunday morning helped contribute to the bloodiest weekend of the year in Chicago, leaving at least 11 people killed and 58 others wounded in shootings since Friday evening.
A CPD map show 74 incidents in two weeks when expanded only a quarter mile from the Art Institute.
Police said the shooting happened around 8:45 a.m. near Flournoy Street and Francisco Avenue.
Police are trying to determine if the same people are behind six violent robberies in Lakeview and Lincoln Park.
An Ohio judge had enough of being repeatedly interrupted by a chatty defendant and had the man's mouth taped shut during a sentencing hearing.
A man had part of his ear bitten off Thursday morning in a bizarre attack across the street from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Four men broke into an elderly couple's home in south suburban Monee earlier this week, stealing cash and phones, before fleeing in the couple's SUV.
A Minnesota teen has been arrested after police say he tore out his elderly relative's eyes with his bare hands.
