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The state sought a 35-year sentence in exchange for Ryan O. Mason’s guilty plea and testimony against Erion Davis-Murdock, who a jury convicted in September of personally firing the World

Timothy Banowetz, who was convicted of murdering asbestos attorney Randy Gori, is appealing dismissal of his motion to withdraw his guilty plea and vacate a 70-year prison sentence.

A criminal trial of two former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys was halted suddenly Wednesday when prosecutors said they planned to file a rare mid-trial appeal after a judge limited testimony from a key witness and sharply criticized Kim Foxx’s office. The move pushes the criminal case into an indefinite holding pattern, as the sides argue over key concepts such as attorney-client ...

The attempted murder case against Adrian W. Rogers, 53, East Moline, will now resume.

“I thought he was talking to somebody else,” Jones said when he heard Adrian first tell him to get out. “(Eyler and Jones) looked around the courtroom to see who was causing a problem or what the

CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a Metro East man prosecuted by his office pleaded guilty to disseminating child pornography. Jerry Newby,

Lawyers will present evidence next week during a pre-trial hearing in the case of a Norwich man accused of stock-piling a cache of automatic weaponry and homemade pipe bombs in his city apartment. New...

ELKTON — A Cecil County Circuit Court jury acquitted an Elkton-area man of all criminal charges relating to allegations that he had sex with a girl on two occasions —

Brendan Trumann, 21, is charged with three counts of aggravated battery, aggravated reckless driving, aggravated DUI and leaving the scene of a crime.

A Willimantic man who fled a traffic stop and dragged a New London police officer 850 feet during his getaway is expected to serve 10 years in prison. Kyndrel L. Dawson, 27, entered guilty pleas on We...