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A Milford police officer was placed on leave for allegedly failing to follow up on an arrest warrant application for Ewen Dewitt in November, a month before Dewitt killed his ex-girlfriend — who already had a protective order against him — while two of her three sons were at home.

Prosecutors said Samuel Parsons-Salas later admitted to someone he had shot “everyone who called out his name.”

A jury has convicted Abraham Douglas, 21, for shooting and killing a 23-year-old man in Takoma Park, Maryland in April.

There were a lot of new faces sitting around the table at the White County Board meeting on Tuesday night and fairly large agenda to tackle. First order of business, Cassi Pigg was appointed to be the new White County Board chairman and Ken Ursery […]

The Appellate Court of Maryland will hear oral arguments Feb. 2 as to whether the September court proceedings that led Adnan Syed’s 22-year-old murder conviction to be overturned were held correctly.

A 29-year-old Algonquin man charged battering a 71-year-old female relative -- and who was accused of posted threats on social media of a shooting at a Bridgeview music festival held over Labor Day weekend -- was found to be restored to fitness Friday.

Prosecutors said William Kohles was upset over crime rates in Chicago when he allegedly wrote a threatening message to Mayor Lori Lightfoot in which he claimed he would shoot the mayor. 

 

Joseph Kormelis, 75, known as The Walkign Man of Chicago, died on Sunday at 4.08pm, the Cook County Medical Examiners Office revealed.

A homeless man who became known as Chicago’s “Walking Man” because he was frequently seen walking the city’s downtown streets has died months after being set on fire as he