Man Charged With Calling In Bomb Threat To Northbrook High School
Michael R. Schmidt, 59, faces a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, according to Northbrook police.
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Michael R. Schmidt, 59, faces a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, according to Northbrook police.
Anshoo Sethi, 32, pleaded guilty to wire fraud more than a year ago, admitting he provided forged documents — including a bogus letter from Hyatt Hotels — to scam the investors who thought it would go toward Sethi's hotel.
Convicted killer Drew Peterson, serving a total of 78 years in prison, was no longer in state custody on Tuesday, but Illinois Department of Corrections officials would not provide his whereabouts.
The 14-year-old boy allegedly body slammed 12-year-old Henry Sembdner on Feb. 3, after Henry bumped into him between classes at Kenyon Woods Middle School.
Police were warning drivers after a credit card skimming device was found on a gas pump in Lake Station, Indiana.
The family of a teenage mother who was shot and killed more than a year ago in Dolton was offering a $6,000 reward for information, in hopes of generating new leads in the case.
The latest homicide happened Monday night in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side, where officers responding to a call of shots fired at 8:14 p.m. in the 900 block of East 132nd Street found a man in his 20s in a field with gunshot wounds across his chest and torso.
Five masked people broke into a car dealership, but no vehicles were stolen early Tuesday in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said.
SWAT team members were called about 10:45 p.m. Monday to the 1100 block of North Waller, where the male was threatening suicide, according to Chicago Police.
Officers initially responded at 5:10 p.m. to a call of shots fired in the 9800 block of South Bensley, and a police SWAT team responded when a male refused to give himself up, according to Chicago Police.
A 68-year-old man was found dead, and a 37-year-old man was taken into custody, after a standoff that lasted more than four hours in the Little Village neighborhood on Monday.
The latest killing happened Saturday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
The Cook County State's Attorney sat down with CBS 2's Brad Edwards to discuss Chicago street violence, policing and what her future holds.
Two people were killed and at least eight more, including a 13-year-old boy, were wounded in South and West side shootings to start the President's Day holiday weekend, according to Chicago Police.
A Cook County judge declined to rule Friday on whether the grandmother of Heather Mack's child could get custody of the girl, who is soon turning 2, but Kia Washington said she will continue to fight to bring the child back to the U.S.
The Cook County State's Attorney's office said the officer who shot Robertson, 31-year-old LaRoyce Tankson, turned himself in late Thursday.
Six months after an 85-year old woman and her 65-year old son were found beaten to death in their Sycamore area home, police appeared no closer to solving the murders.
A 67-year-old woman was carjacked late Thursday night in the River North neighborhood, and one of the suspects later crashed another stolen car.
Two men have been charged with smashing the door of a health food store to try and take cash from the register early Thursday in north suburban Evanston.
A man tried to carjack a woman Wednesday afternoon in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood on the Near West Side, but he ran away when she fought back, police said.
In each robbery, someone entered the business with a silver handgun and took money, police said.
Omar Montoya Medina, of the 100 block of East Pomeroy Street, was found guilty of two felony counts of aggravated driving under the influence causing death and two felony counts of reckless homicide, according to the DuPage County state's attorney's office.
A man walking to a bus stop with his girlfriend Thursday morning was gunned down in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Three of the deaths came by way of a mass shooting inside a Brighton Park neighborhood home on the Southwest Side.
A Michigan man had his 7-month-old son with him when he stole two squad cars Wednesday afternoon and led police on a chase that ended when a helicopter spotted him running through the woods in northwest Indiana, police said.
