A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

A Florida killer was kicked out of her own sentencing hearing when she bizarrely declared that the courtroom was a “satan ...

An owner of the Signature Room shuffled its assets around to avoid paying workers who were abruptly laid off when the iconic ...

In the less than nine years the Civilian Office of Police Accountability has existed, its investigators have probed 138 ...

CHICAGO — Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically sealed ...

The foreclosure fight over a suburban Chicago property in La Grange adds to a growing pile of litigation against and between ...

A Macomb Township man who was under the influence of a substance has pleaded no contest to three charges related to a ...

When Collier Circuit Judge Joseph Foster announced Amanda Cook's sentence, the killer began to yell and bailiffs removed her.

When a third of residents summoned didn't respond or show up, a mistrial was called when the jury pool ran out of people.

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. On Friday, the Supreme Court ...