Felix Sarver

A 6-year-old child in Joliet was driving an ATV with an 8-year-old passenger when the “ATV lost control and struck a tree,” police said.

A felony gun case fell apart after a Will County judge ruled a sheriff’s deputy unlawfully searched a vehicle based on the smell of marijuana that was never collected or tested.

When a Plainfield man became angry his girlfriend’s 2-year-old child had thrown a cellphone at him, he allegedly struck the child, which caused her to suffer a fractured skull and brain bleed, police said.

Attorneys for Joliet said former Mayor Bob O’Dekirk’s federal lawsuit made frivolous legal arguments and sought to “hijack the busy federal courts for an improper purpose, such as to harass.”

A defense attorney contends Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s Office has no authority to prosecute a Republican political consultant accused of sending obscene messages to a Democratic state lawmaker.

A state senator visited an organization in Joliet that has been fighting the epidemic of fatal drug overdoses for 15 years.

An attorney is seeking to have his client’s legal fees paid by a former Joliet mayor whose conspiracy lawsuit was dismissed in federal court in February.

A Harvey man who was charged at 16 with the 2020 New Lenox murder of Charles "Charlie" Baird, 19, has allowed a Will County judge to decide his fate. His trial began Tuesday.

A 33-year-old man was struck multiple times in a shooting on Luther Avenue in Joliet. At least three shootings have been reported in the Joliet area since Friday.

A Joliet police detective is seeking to use the report of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s Office investigation of the police department in his federal racial discrimination lawsuit.

A Shorewood driver allegedly didn’t think it was a “big deal” to let his 2-year-old son drive the vehicle, honk the horn and play the radio while the vehicle was in motion, police said.

An accidental fire destroyed a garage at a residence behind the 7-Eleven store in an unincorporated area in the far west side of Joliet. 

The Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees have voted to allow the release of a report regarding an investigation into what the chairman described last year as “employee grievances against members of this board.”

Felony murder and armed robbery charges were dismissed against a Joliet Township man after a Will County judge found no evidence to support the armed robbery charge. 

A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit case against a Will County SWAT sniper who fatally shot a hostage taker after he surrendered to the police in 2022.