Crime and Courts

Eighteen people including Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been indicted for alleged conspiracy, fraud and forgery related to the 2020 election in Arizona Arizona becomes the fourth state to bring charges against “fake electors.”

A 54-year-old Sterling woman is charged in Whiteside County court with financial exploitation of an elderly person and theft, which are punishable by four to 15 and three to seven years in prison, plus restitution, respectively.

Judge Dave Carlson will decide Monday whether Jeremy Boshears should be released from jail ahead of a second murder trial.

A Rock Falls man who recently entered into a plea agreement in 13 pending Whiteside County cases now is charged with appliance theft from a store in Dixon.

Ogle County sheriff's deputies say more than 46 pounds of cannabis, with an estimated street value of $200,000, was seized following a search at Joshua Anderson's home.

The Seneca Police Department was dispatched to its own parking lot at 7:16 a.m. Tuesday for a victim of gunshot wounds that was on their way to the department.

Local teams compete in softball, baseball, soccer and track

A Joliet man was identified by prosecutors as one of the shooters on the Joliet side of Theodore Street who was likely returning fire from an initial shooting from suspects at Merichka's restaurant, court records show.

The Will County case against a Crestwood man charged with killing a Lockport woman and her baby in 2020 has been set for trial in late September, court records show.

The driver of a semitractor-trailer charged with improper passing in the death of a tractor driver in Rock Falls is scheduled to appear in Whiteside County traffic court in Sterling on May 13.

Steven K. Irvin, 58, pleaded guilty Monday to the felony offense.

Morrison man to appear in court again in July for status hearing.

After spending more than a month in jail, a man was released when a Will County judge determined he was not charged with an offense eligible for detention under the SAFE-T Act.

A prosecutor told jurors that Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public

A DuPage County man on court supervision for having child pornography is facing new charges of child pornography and indecent solicitation of children.