Crime and Courts

Margaret Wisner was found to have acted “recklessly” in not providing her son adequate nourishment and medical care.

A 16-year-old Rock Falls boy is being treated for life-threatening wounds after being shot once in the chest a

A Sterling man charged with involuntary manslaughter after police say he shot another man in the head on Feb. 19 is set to enter a plea Oct. 31 in Whiteside County court.

A Will County judge did not allow a man charged with a 2016 Joliet Township killing to be released from jail. His defense attorney made the request just days after the cashless bail provision of the SAFE-T Act went into effect.

Matthew Plote, of Malta, is charged with killing Melissa Lamesch, 27, and her unborn son on Nov. 25, 2020, and then setting fire to her home in Mt. Morris to conceal their deaths.

A three-year investigation involving DeKalb police, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies throughout northern Illinois resulted in the arrest of five men from DeKalb, Sycamore and Aurora on various illegal drug charges, authorities said.

To avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, the Ogle County state’s attorney asked for and was granted a special prosecutor in the case of a now-former deputy charged with DUI and leaving the scene of a crash.

The woman told police she fired the weapon "as a warning shot" because she was “in fear for her safety,” according to court documents.

A Thomson woman was found not guilty at a bench trial Wednesday in a case in which she struck and killed a pedestrian Dec. 25 near Fulton.

Two Joliet brothers are accused of attempting to kill their sister’s boyfriend in a July 2 shooting that apparently left him paralyzed, court records show.

A Carol Stream man is accused of DUI and causing an accident that injured a mother and her two children.

Stillman Valley man charged with killing his ex-wife and their 3-year-old son in 2016.

A former Clinton, Iowa man is in Whiteside County jail, accused of raping a woman in Fulton.

A man charged with the 2016 Joliet Township murder of a 62-year-old U.S. Army veteran is seeking to be released from jail under the provisions of the SAFE-T Act.

A fitness hearing was ordered for Rock Falls man accused of severely beating a woman and trying to strangle her with an electric power cord.