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A jury in Chicago is weighing the fate of a woman accused of killing and dismembering her landlord.

The firearms charges resulted from an arrest the Mattoon Police Department made on Nov. 4, 2022 with the assistance of the Coles County Crisis Response Team.

The state’s attorney for Charles County announced on April 10 that the Charles County Circuit Court sentenced Michael Darrell Dukes, 22, of Hyattsville to 10 years with all but 18

Almost everyone agreed that Frances Walker was cherished by neighbors, family and her tenants. Even the attorneys defending the woman accused of killing Walker said friends and family of the Rogers Park landlord “loved her to her core.” The 69-year-old was a smiling presence in the 5900 block of North Washtenaw Avenue where she rented subsidized rooms, threw in free Wi-Fi and played the piano ...

A man who answered a Facebook Marketplace ad to buy an Xbox was robbed at gunpoint earlier this year. Darrion W. Sargent, 18, admitted to police he drove the men

Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, Charles County Circuit Court Judge Makeba Gibbs sentenced Michael Darrell Dukes, 22, to 10 years with all but 18 months suspended in prison for the Gross Negligent Manslaughter of Zkiara Kemp. Dukes will also be on supervised probation for five years.

The state alleged that Ayron D. Worthington, 33, and Raekwon Collins, 30, accompanied Joseph Hoosier, 46, to Mahomet on Dec. 22 to rob a man. All three are now charged

Following a week-long bench trial, a former Bartlett man was found guilty but mentally ill in his mother's stabbing death in 2019.

Daily Journal staff report

Following a week-long bench trial, a former Bartlett man was found guilty but mentally ill in his mother's stabbing death in 2019.