Christopher Vaughn Sentencing Postponed Until Tuesday
A father convicted of murdering his wife and family is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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A father convicted of murdering his wife and family is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Lake County Superior Court Judge Thomas Stefaniak Jr. sentenced a Gary man to 90 years in prison for murder and being an habitual offender.
A family is grieving this Thanksgiving after a brother, uncle, and respected neighbor was stabbed to death while he was trying to break up a fight between a husband and wife.
A Naperville woman accused of killing her son and a little girl she was baby-sitting last month entered a not guilty plea on Wednesday--in the first-ever televised court proceeding in the Chicago area.
Crest Hill police say a house fire last weekend was set to cover up a murder.
Bond was denied Friday for a South Side man accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old girl this week in the Roseland neighborhood.
Four men who were cleared last year of the 1994 rape and murder of a woman in the Englewood neighborhood have filed a lawsuit claiming they were framed by police.
A wake is planned Monday for a 7-year-old Naperville boy who prosecutors said begged his mother for his life before she slashed and stabbed him to death in a townhouse Tuesday.
Bond was denied Saturday for a 19-year-old man charged with the fatal shooting of a Chicago Ridge girl in August in the Southwest Side McKinley Park neighborhood.
The woman accused of killing her 7-year-old son and the 5-year-old girl she was babysitting allegedly went to confession at a Naperville church before the murders.
An Antioch area man accused of murdering his long-time partner has been indicted by a Lake County grand jury on first-degree murder charges.
Bond was set at $2 million for a South Side man accused of killing his girlfriend during a dispute at their South Side home.
Police in Naperville have charged the suspect in the stabbing deaths of two small children at a suburban town home overnight.
A second teenage boy was charged Tuesday with murder in the shooting death of a man earlier this month in the South Deering neighborhood.
A 61-year-old interior designer in Northwest Indiana is facing extradition back to Arizona - where she is accused of killing her husband a decade ago.
A 14-year-old boy is being held by juvenile authorities after being charged with the fatal shooting of a man in the South Side South Deering neighborhood earlier this month.
Chicago surpassed last year's total of 435 homicides Monday when a man died after being shot, authorities said.
An 18-year-old man is being held on $7 million bail for a Tuesday gang shooting that left two teens dead and another wounded.
Police are calling it a robbery, but the family of an 18-year-old murder victim says his death wasn't about money or valuables.
Phoenix police say they've arrested a Chicago man in the baseball bat killing of his ex-wife's new boyfriend.
Nick Viverito watched his best friend die this weekend, when his friend's throat was slashed during a weekend trip to watch the Chicago Bears play in Florida.
A 41-year-old man is in jail on a $3 million bond after he was charged with the murder of the mother of his 19-year-old daughter in Lake County.
An expensive sports car--- tied to the murder of a newly married woman last spring--has been found.
Discovery of human remains two years ago has led police to charge a former Michigan City man with murder.
The City Council's Finance Committee has endorsed a multi-million dollar financial settlement for a man who served 8 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
