Will County Sheriff's Office news from the Herald-News and Shaw Local
Jeffrey Santora, 50, of Shorewood, has been identified as the motorcycle passenger who was killed in a crash involving a school bus in Troy Township.
A new detention hearing was held for a man charged with killing a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. A retired judge was found to have failed to follow requirements under a provision of the SAFE-T Act.
The Will County Sheriff's office is warning residents about scam callers impersonating police and Will County court officials.
A Cook County correctional sergeant is seeking to end her marriage with a man charged with attempting to murder his neighbor in Homer Township. She's under an internal investigation but the sheriff's office declined to explain why.
Prosecutors are requesting a new pretrial release hearing for a man charged with killing a woman at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse. Prosecutors contend a judge refused to follow a provision of the SAFE-T Act when allowing the man's jail release.
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.