Homicides in Chicago have increased slightly during the first six months of 2026, according to preliminary data.

FILE - The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen on Dec. 9, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands.

A Northwest Indiana small-town police chief was being held in an Ohio jail Saturday amid a criminal investigation and county police takeover of his town's policing. The Times confirmed through Clark ...

Chicago's top federal prosecutor announced 179 people have been charged in 140 newly filed criminal cases as the result of an ...

The sound of whistles warning of approaching unmarked vehicles driven by immigration agents has once again echoed through Chicago neighborhoods and surrounding suburbs in recent weeks. At the same ...

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DELAWARE - Delaware has taken another step towards increasing privacy for individuals with low-level offenses, clearing over 64,000 cases from public criminal background checks in the state's first ...

Andrew S. Boutros, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, is said to be overseeing the criminal investigation. By Julie Bosman and Danny Hakim Julie Bosman reported ...

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Brown University’s Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve argues that false confessions stem from something more pernicious than shoddy law enforcement. Cook County is known as the wrongful-conviction capital of ...

San Francisco-based Checkr, which got its start running criminal record checks on Uber drivers and gig workers, has seen its gross revenue jump 14% to $800 million as companies try to spot a flood of ...