Will County Sheriff's Office news from the Herald-News and Shaw Local
The incident occurred sometime Tuesday evening in the Lockport Heights neighborhood, just outside the Lockport city limits off Smith Road and IL Route 171 (Archer Avenue).
The Joliet Police Department has announced details for its 21st annual Dunkin Donuts Cop on a Rooftop fundraiser for Special Olympics.
A Will County judge ordered the jail release of a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse but he suspended his court order to give prosecutors time to appeal his decision.
Judge Dave Carlson will decide Monday whether Jeremy Boshears should be released from jail ahead of a second murder trial.
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.
Will County sheriff's deputies saw multiple bullet holes on the side of a residence on Algonquin Street in Joliet Township.
Will County sheriff's deputies were unable to find anyone injured or any property damaged in a shooting reported in the Fairmont neighborhood of Lockport Township.
When an Illinois State Police sergeant asked the Will County sheriff's deputy to submit to sobriety tests, the deputy allegedly said, “I don’t need to do [expletive],” police reports show.
Police are investigating a shooting in the 200 block of Luana Road in Joliet Township. No reports of injuries in the shooting.
A man has died and a girl has been flown by helicopter to a Chicago hospital following a two-vehicle crash on Thursday in Wilton Township in Will County.
Likely one of the youngest murder defendants in Will County has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder over a 2022 fatal shooting in Crete Township, according to prosecutors.
Will County prosecutors argue a Coal City man can still undergo a second trial for the 2017 murder of a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. The man is trying to get the case dismissed on double jeopardy grounds.
A Joliet man will remain in jail in a case where he's charged with killing a man and wounding another man in a Lockport Township shooting. The two victims were not the intended target, police said.
After a Will County judge granted a new trial for a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws' clubhouse, the man is now seeking his release from jail under the SAFE-T Act.
A Joliet man has been charged with the first-degree murder of a man and wounding another man in a shooting that was reported on Feb. 8 in Lockport Township.