Will County News

A Naperville man already awaiting trial on arson and narcotics-related charges has new legal trouble, after being arrested for allegedly having a stolen computer in his home.

An unemployed Oswego man was in Will County Jail Wednesday night on charges of trying to arrange a sexual rendezvous with a teenage girl who turned out to be an undercover Naperville police detective.

Amendments to a Will County ordinance make it easier for subdivision developers to use conservation design, which preserves an area's natural resources.

ACORN, which played a starring role in creating the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to add insult to injury by harassing lenders across the nation with protests tomorrow in an effort to coerce them into supporting President Obamaa TMs Making Home Affordable foreclosure-avoidance program.

Rural and underrepresented communities in Illinois are one-step closer to having more access to Small Business Innovation Research awards, thanks to a piece of legislation proposed by U.S. Rep.

A Joliet man, wanted in connection with a kidnapping in McDowell County, N.C., was spotted by Orland Park police and taken into custody about 3 a.m. Saturday.

The body of a Wilmington man was found Sunday morning in Kankakee State River Park Hunting Area 7 in Will County.

A Mokena teen who told police he slit his 4-year-old half-sister's throat because he couldn't get a gun to kill the person he believed was abusing the girl pleaded innocent today to two counts of first-degree murder.

It's all about connections. Just as motorists now can easily travel from New Lenox to Bolingbrook and points further north via Interstate 355, so also will bicyclists some day.

One of two Naperville middle school boys accused of sexually assaulting a classmate pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony.

Police say DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a teenager last year in southwest suburban Joliet.

The FBI has joined Will County authorities in their investigation of the 2004 murder of a 3-year-old Wilmington girl Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert D. Grant announced the formal cooperation Thursday, and said FBI agents have been informally reviewing the case of Riley Fox for about a year.

At least one person was killed when an Amtrak train bound for Chicago struck a car which was on the tracks in Romeoville.

Centerpoint Properties' new intermodal, which is under construction on the city's south side, could one day be where east meets west in Will County.

A Mokena teenager told police that he cut his 4-year-old half-sister's throat with a steak knife and stabbed her while his younger brother played a wrestling video game upstairs, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by a Mokena detective in Will County Circuit Court.

One week after human remains washed up on the shore of the Des Plaines River, sparking speculation they could be those of missing Will County women Stacy Peterson or Lisa Stebic, another grisly discovery was made farther north.

Fuel prices have increased again during the last month in Illinois and northern Indiana, leaving the Midwest with some of the highest prices in the country for June 2009.

The Will County Board will vote next week on a new version of an ordinance to regulate the outdoor burning of grass, leaves and branches.

Will County sheriff's police are still searching for a Frankfort Township woman who, along with her sister have been charged with criminal neglect of an elderly person.

CHANNAHON – Reports were unfounded earlier today that a second person has died as a result of an apparent murder-suicide by shotgun in the home of the shooter.