Crime and Public Safety

A shooting in Highland Park on Monday prompted a shelter-in-place order as police searched for two persons of interest believed to have spoken with the victim before the shooting.

An attorney representing two Chicago college students is speaking out after the women filed separate civil lawsuits against former podiatrist Asim Qureshi and Michigan Avenue Podiatry.

A Mundelein mother is charged with involuntary manslaughter after authorities say she left her 4-year-old son home alone for nearly 20 hours before he died in a house fire.

A Chicago police SWAT officer is expected to make a full recovery after he was shot while responding to a domestic-related incident Monday morning in the Albany Park neighborhood, authorities said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will now be required to wear body cameras when making vehicle stops. 

Police say a suspect is in custody after a deadly shooting in Round Lake Beach Sunday night. Here's what we know.

A Chicago-area man is accused of trafficking hundreds of fentanyl pills and large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in the suburbs. Here's what prosecutors say.

A man was killed outside a Lincoln Park bar, and four others were wounded in separate overnight shootings across Chicago. Here's what police say.

A multi-state manhunt is intensifying across Florida, Georgia and Alabama for 38-year-old Isabelle Rose Johnson, who is wanted for murder.

The older brother of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been charged after Honolulu police say he allegedly tried to lure several children to his Waikīkī hotel room.

A rising professional boxer was killed Saturday morning in Central Texas after a motorist allegedly reversed his vehicle and struck her as she rode her bicycle, authorities said.

Police in suburban Lake County rescued three swimmers who were in distress on Saturday afternoon on Petite Lake.

A New Hampshire Democratic lawmaker's 107 mph traffic stop has thrust the debate over police body cameras and dashboard cameras back into the spotlight.

A woman allegedly stabbed a man in the neck during a fight in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood on Saturday night.

A Bronzeville convenience store worker was shot and injured during an armed robbery on Saturday morning.

A 48-year-old man was shot and injured by a would-be carjacker on the city’s West Side early Saturday morning.

A Tennessee woman was arrested this week after authorities said she tried to drown one of her children in a backyard swimming pool.