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A former Calumet Township man charged in the death of his 94-year-old mother was ordered released from Lake County Jail on his previously posted bond after the judge found that the prosecutor had failed to prove he posed a danger to the community, the Post-Tribune is reporting.
A LaPorte man has been arrested in a connection to a 20-year-old homicide, according to the Indiana State Police.
Kevin Curtis, 26, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Blum, 19.
It might be two weeks before a DeKalb County judge rules whether the man who pleaded guilty to the murder of Northern Illinois University student Toni Keller can change that plea.
A jury deliberated for about six hours before finding Jesus Zambrano, 23, guilty of one count of first-degree murder for killing Robert Gooch on May 22, 2009.
On July 23, 18-year-old Tyrone Hart was standing on the corner in the 8000 block of South Chappel Avenue when a passenger inside a passing black Nissan Maxima opened fire, hitting Hart in the chest.
A well-being check on a 28-year-old north suburban woman led to the discovery of her murder by police on Sunday night.
An Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighborhood was shot and killed by three "bored" teenagers who decided to kill someone for fun, police said.
A man charged with murdering one man and critically wounding another in a shooting over beer at a Hermosa neighborhood party was ordered held without bond.
A man is being held in southern Illinois on $2 million bond in the shooting death of an Indiana woman whose body was found in a cornfield.
The North Carolina man who allegedly murdered a Steger woman in 2011 shot her with his dad's handgun and called her cellphone after the shooting to make it look like he was searching for her, a prosecutor said.
Police are conducting a homicide investigation after a 75-year-old man was found dead inside a South Side apartment Friday night.
A man who was shot to death while driving was found slumped over in the driver's seat of a car after striking a planter box in the Washington Heights neighborhood late Thursday.
A downstate Illinois man was denied bond Friday for allegedly fatally shooting a teenage boy in the South Shore neighborhood in 2007.
Miguel Vazquez, 20, faces one count of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated battery
A man has been charged with shooting two people in the Bronzeville neighborhood over the weekend – killing one of them – after turning himself in to police overnight.
Tyrone Hart, 18, was standing on the corner in the 8000 block of South Chappel Avenue when a passenger inside a passing black Nissan Maxima opened fire about 7:45 p.m. July 23.
Larry Cox, 28, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting deaths of 31-year-old Chavonne Brown and her 5-year-old son, Sterling Sims.
Roman Forman, 25, faces one count of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of 25-year-old Freddie Walton.
Cheryl Jackson got the call that her brother Cary Owsley had killed himself on April 7th. She said his death was immediately ruled a suicide but Jackson says there was no autopsy and no forensics.
A case of road rage ends in murder. And a 61-year-old man is now being questioned by police.
A Will County judge is considering putting a news reporter on the witness stand to find out how he got his hands on police reports describing allegations in a brutal double homicide in southwest suburban Joliet earlier this year.
The deaths of two brothers found in the basement of their Evanston tobacco shop last week are now being investigated as a double homicide.
An 18-year-old man has been charged with two counts of murder, accused of killing a woman and her 5-year-old son in their Back of the Yards home in June.
Investigators spent the night at Evanston Pipe & Tobacco, after 38-year-old Mohammed Abdul Azim Hakeem and 34-year-old Mohammed Abdul Mubeen Hakeem were found in the basement.
