Justice News

Springfield Monday to run for Cook County Judge in the 13th Judicial Subcircuit in the March 18 GOP primary election.

The rape evidence was stored in the police department's musty basement: Brown paper shopping bags, stuffed with sneakers, bras and underpants, jammed on metal shelves.

When I was a boy, unschooled local justices of the peace were infamous for working with small-town cops to set up speed traps to fleece unsuspecting motorists.

A teenager who was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that crashed, killing a 16-year-old passenger, in Homer Glen last fall has been sentenced to two months in juvenile prison, the SouthtownStar is reporting.

Johnsburg Man Gets 26 Years for Murdering Missing Teenager Mario Casciaro, 30, was sentenced Thursday, Nov. 14, to 26 years in prison for the murder of Johnsburg teenager Brian Carrick, the Northwest Herald is reporting.

An online petition is asking that the judge presiding over the Kelli O'Laughlin murder case put a stop to defendant John L. Wilson's "courtroom antics" and move the two-year-old case to trial soon.

A DePaul University law professor who's considered a national expert in criminal defense has been named as the new dean of the Valparaiso University Law School.

Michael Goodman as Carl Perkins, Laura Stuart Obenauf as Elvis Presley's girlfriend Dyanne, and Brandon Bennett as Elvis Presley played on Saturday just before Santa's arrival at Yorktown Center in Lombard.

Loukoumades will be among the treats one can enjoy at the Greek Food Fest on Saturday at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in Justice.