Art Barnum

The DuPage Sheriff's Young Adult Work Camp has been given the 2000 Innovative Solutions Awards by the Governor's Work Force Development Board on the program's first anniversary. Sheriff John Zaruba's...

A Lombard man has been charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old female patient he met while working as a mental health counselor. Alvaro Oliveros Jr., 25, of the 100 block...

The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday denied DuPage County State's Atty. Joseph Birkett's efforts to reverse an Appellate Court decision that freed Donna Gist, convicted of the 1996 murder of...

A Bensenville man who choked his roommate to death last February in a quarrel over a bill pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 5 years in...

The trial of Garrett Harth, a 21-year-old Naperville man facing drug charges in connection with the drug overdose death of a young Naperville woman, was postponed Tuesday. Harth's attorney Daniel...

St. Charles police said Monday that a reported sexual assault of a young woman by a man in the 100 block of North 17th Street on Sept. 8 had been...

A Chicago man with a long history of thefts was sentenced Thursday to 4 years in prison for stealing a boom box from the Elmhurst office of state Sen. Dan...

A former DuPage County juvenile officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor battery charge involving a female juvenile in detention. LeCarton Hardin, 25, of Bolingbrook was originally charged with custodial...

Six men riding in a sport-utility vehicle were killed early Monday in a fiery crash on the Kennedy Expressway. State police identified two of the occupants Monday night as Tu...

A 17-year-old Addison youth was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday for selling cocaine to area youth, but the teen hopes to avoid prison time by attending a boot...