Rickey Banks spent Oct. 18 the same way he spent every Sunday: playing Uno with his grandson, Julian Calderon. Before his daughter Shatayvia Calderon took her son back home, Banks asked about how her ...

A man who carried out a murder for hire has been denied parole after nearly a half-century behind bars. Michael Fountain, 72, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in January 1977 and was sentenced ...

The shocking mass murder-suicide in a notoriously safe Illinois village was committed by a veterinarian who gunned down his elderly parents, son and girlfriend before shooting himself dead, according ...

The small red frame home on Wellington Avenue in suburban Mundelein became a house of horror Sunday, just as the Chicago Bears game was kicking off. Neighbors said they thought the firecracker noise ...

Five people were found shot dead in a suspected murder-suicide at a home owned by retired veterinarians and their son in a notoriously safe suburban Chicago village, according to reports. The bodies ...

It was supposed to be a fistfight, a prosecutor said: Zauhnteen Jackson, wearing just sneakers, socks, shorts and a face mask, stepped up to fight Nahzire Broadnax. But the May 21, 2024, incident ...

Paul Nthenge Mackenzie told his doomsday followers in a remote forest to fast for salvation. He faced trial after hundreds of bodies were exhumed. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Brian O. Otieno Reporting ...

Oct. 19 (UPI) --Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, the leader of a Christian cult was found guilty of murdering 190 children in a Kenyan court on Monday. Mackenzie is one of 29 suspects who was convicted for ...

Lauren joined CBS News Chicago in May 2016 and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. A Palatine, Illinois teen arrested for an alleged mass shooting plot ...

Erie police say suspect in mass shooting described by relatives as controlling, with mental health issues. Drug use also suspected, with evidence found in home. Prior domestic reported between suspect ...

In a manifesto, Alexandros Paporakis identified as “a sociopathic white supremacist Neo Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day,” according to court records.

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