Killing Stepmom With Hammer Gets Man 38 Years In Prison
A Fox River Grove man who beat his stepmother to death with a hammer after family members urged him to seek mental health treatment has been sentenced to 38 years in prison.
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A Fox River Grove man who beat his stepmother to death with a hammer after family members urged him to seek mental health treatment has been sentenced to 38 years in prison.
New questions are being raised in the case of a father from Oswego who stands charged with killing his wife and three children in 2007.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger is asking area churches this Sunday to honor the memory of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida boy who was shot and killed by a man who is claiming self-defense.
The mother of a 6-year-old girl who was gunned down in front of her Little Village home over the weekend said the two purported gang members charged with murder are "not people, they're animals."
Two people have been charged in the shooting death of a 6-year-old girl in the Little Village neighborhood.
The capital murder trial of a Gary man charged with killing his wife and stepchildren ended Wednesday in mistrial after running out of jurors.
A high-profile murder in Merrillville, Ind., has some officials thinking more police are needed in their town.
The man charged with stabbing a 14-year-old girl to death in southwest suburban Indian Head Park last year has reportedly been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Authorities have charged a 20-year-old Merrillville, Ind., man with the convenience store robbery and shooting last week that left a clerk dead.
Kane County prosecutors say asking a judge to vacate a man's 2002 murder conviction was "the right thing to do."
Two men accused of murdering a man in February in the Little Village neighborhood were ordered held on $2 million bond Saturday.
A 17-year-old classmate has been charged with first degree murder in the stabbing death of a fellow student at a South Side school.
A fugitive wanted for a 1996 homicide in Chicago has been arrested in California, the FBI announced on Tuesday
The stepfather of a 22-year-old Valparaiso woman found dead in her home Feb. 21 from apparent strangulation has been arrested in connection with her murder.
A 25-year-old woman was sentenced to 31 years in prison on Thursday for the murder of a 16-month-old boy, who she allegedly tossed to the ground three years ago.
A South Side man was sentenced to 75 years in prison Tuesday for the murder of a 10-year-old girl caught in gang crossfire.
Police in northwest Indiana want nothing to do with a reward that is being offered in a murder case.
A Chicago man has been charged with murder for allegedly strangling a Park Ridge man in a dispute over drug money.
An 80-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease was beaten to death at an Oak Park nursing home and police said Tuesday it appears another resident is to blame.
A Cook County judge has denied a motion seeking to quash the arrest of the man charged with killing three of Chicago singer and actress Jennifer Hudson's relatives in 2008.
Police have released a surveillance photo showing the gunman who shot and killed an employee at a West Town Subway restaurant.
Two men who had never met are now forever connected; one man is dead, killed in a stabbing at a bar in Naperville; the other is being held on $3 million bond, charged with murder.
Two men accused of killing Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis during a holdup at a West Side convenience store late last year were formally charged with murder on Friday.
An Oswego man charged with killing his wife and three children in 2007 is set to go on trial starting in August.
A McHenry County jury was unable to reach a verdict in the murder trial of a man accused in the 2002 murder of a Johnsburg teenager whose body was never found.
