A new policy that allows Chicago police to directly file certain felony gun charges could potentially be harmful given the department’s history.

A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” is expected to change his not guilty plea in a U.S. drug trafficking case, months after his brother entered a plea deal.

Five people pleaded guilty Wednesday to terrorism-related charges after they were accused of supporting antifa in a July shooting that wounded a police officer outside a Texas immigration detention ...

Federal charges were filed on Wednesday against a man accused of setting a woman on fire on a CTA Blue Line train in downtown Chicago this week. Lawrence Reed, 50, was charged in a criminal complaint ...

A Chicago man already on parole for a gun crime has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison after admitting he opened ...

A Cook County judge on Monday found a Chicago police officer not guilty of sexually abusing a woman while she was in custody and handcuffed to a wall.

A Chicago police officer has been found not guilty of groping a woman while she was handcuffed in a holding cell after she ...

CHICAGO -- Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's son will change his plea Monday in a drug trafficking case, according to court documents. Joaquín Guzmán López originally pleaded not guilty.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's son will change his plea Monday in a drug trafficking case, according to court documents. Joaquín Guzmán López originally pleaded not ...

STOUGHTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A new charge faces former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell in federal court in connection with the death of Sandra Birchmore. Farwell, already charged with murdering ...