Lake County sheriff’s office

A Florida man who repeatedly harassed parents of shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School has been arrested for possessing the identification of one of the parents, authorities said. Wolfgang Halbig, 73, was arrested Monday on a charge that he was in unlawful possession of another person’s identification, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. Halbig was a guest...

An Illinois Army National Guard soldier escorted Wednesday a kindergartner whose father died in a military training accident last year to her first father-daughter dance.

One suspect was taken into custody and all passengers on a Greyhound bus were safely evacuated after a “possible hostage situation” and police pursuit on I-94 near Wadsworth, Illinois, late Friday night, authorities said.

Authorities say a man angered over people driving dangerously through a busy Florida intersection appeared to intentionally cause a crash there to highlight the problem.

The wife of disgraced Fox Lake Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz, who authorities say took his own life in a “carefully staged suicide” following years of criminal acts, has been indicted by a grand jury.

A retired Chicago police officer is charged with threatening to harm a coroner and other officials who are investigating the fatal shooting of a northern Illinois officer unless they categorized that death a suicide, authorities said Sunday.

The Valley Fire claimed the life of an elderly woman with a disability who was unable to evacuate from her house on Saturday as the fire turned into an inferno, swallowing up trees and entire homes, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

Northern California’s aggressive Valley Fire, which killed at least one person, destroyed 400 homes and sent residents fleeing along roads where buildings and vehicles were engulfed in flames, surged to 61,000 acres — or 95 square miles — on Monday.

A retired Chicago police officer has been arrested after allegedly making threats against all officials involved in the investigation of the fatal shooting of Fox Lake officer Lt. Joe Gliniewicz.