MANCHESTER, Ill. -- Investigators have determined that a man who shot dead five family members at their home in central Illinois was motivated by his ...

MANCHESTER, Ill. — The man suspected of storming a south-central Illinois home and killing five members of the same family with a shotgun had be...

MANCHESTER, Ill. — The nephew of a small-town Illinois mayor shot and killed five people, including two boys, before leading police on a chase t...

A high school physical education teacher will spend 10 years on the Illinois sex offender registry after she was caught having sex with a student in t...

Two young adults suspected of strangling two men had sex on top of the corpses, according to police reports obtained by Patch. The gruesome revela...

ROCKFORD, Ill. -- An Illinois woman believed to be the mother of two infants found dead in the trunk of an impounded car admitted Thursday to leaving ...

An Illinois man was released from prison only to be accused of beating and strangling his grandmother to death the very next day. Darel C. Agerton...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A former barge worker has admitted his role in a foiled plot to abduct, extort and electrocute a wealthy man in a scheme inves...

A badly decomposed body found in a wooded area outside Lowell, Ind., is that of a missing woman whose boyfriend was charged with her murder in October...

A loved one vanishes without a trace -- then more than five years pass without a single clue about his disappearance. It's a glimpse at the life o...

A 42-year-old Illinois man is in custody on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend after police went to the couple's home and found signs of foul play,...

Illinois police are trying to locate a Calumet City woman who has been missing for nearly a week. According to Calumet City Police Department, Gena...

Illinois authorities arrested a 19-year-old woman after she allegedly admitted to dumping her 3-week-old daughter in a remote area. Kendra Meaker, ...

The body of missing mother Tashyra McDowell was found wedged in a farmer's combine in central Illinois on Tuesday afternoon. According to Peoria Co...

Nobody was hurt when a woman allegedly chased two people out of her house with a pooper-scooper Monday....

A northeast Illinois man who stood accused of using a needle and thread to sew his son's buttocks shut has accepted a plea agreement and will not spen...