Man who scalded boy with hot water sentenced to 19 years in prison
Saying he couldn't understand how someone could continue to injure a child screaming in pain, a Cook County judge on Thursday sentenced a Streamwood man to 19 years in prison...
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Ex-Christian school worker admits stealing almost $300,000, gets probation
A former employee of an Arlington Heights Christian school has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from the school and was sentenced to 24 months of probation. Michael Burrei, 41,...
Buffalo Grove stabbing suspect is felon awaiting trial in cop-knifing
The man accused of breaking into a Buffalo Grove home and stabbing multiple people and a dog is a convicted felon awaiting trial in Wisconsin on charges that he slashed...
Judge to doctor imprisoned for 7th DUI: You ‘could have hired a driver’
An orthopedic surgeon who authorities said has been cited for drunken driving seven times was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday. Despite pleas from his attorney for probation, Dr....
Trial looms for woman accused decades later in husband’s 1979 slaying
A Cook County judge refused to dismiss murder charges Tuesday in a decades-old slaying and instead set a trial date for a former Inverness woman who prosecutors say conspired to...
Arlington Heights-area man shot and killed wife as she held baby: police
Angry that his wife wanted to divorce him, a northwest suburban man repeatedly threatened to harm her in the days before he fatally shot her while she held their baby,...
Arlington Heights residents describe scene as escaped inmate is caught in their neighborhood
Arlington Heights resident Diane Moran recalled how unusually quiet her neighborhood was Wednesday afternoon, with her two young granddaughters playing indoors to escape the hot and humid weather. But the...
Lighter sentence denied for Schaumburg woman who killed disabled daughter
A Cook County judge denied a request on Wednesday to reconsider the four-year prison sentence he handed a Schaumburg woman who was convicted of giving her disabled daughter a fatal...
Woman who poisoned kids with tainted apple juice gets 5 years in prison
A Chicago-area woman who fed her children apple juice tainted with a prescription drug was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison. Krystle El Khatib, of Schiller Park, pleaded guilty...
98 years in prison for man in kidnapping, shooting in mall parking lot
A Chicago man who kidnapped his girlfriend's children and then shot her and her cousin outside a suburban mall was sentenced to almost a century in prison Wednesday. Cook County...