Illinois

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UW-Whitewater gymnast Kara Welsh, 21, was fatally shot near campus. Her boyfriend has been arrested and charged with homicide.

Trudy Appleby, who was 11 when she vanished in Illinois in 1996, is still missing 28 years later. The man believed to have last seen her is dead.

An Illinois man is facing charges after he was allegedly caught driving a camper full of nine kids, who were waving to passengers for help, police said.

A livestock guardian dog who holds the record for the world's oldest pooch ever recently died at 31. Here are the secrets to why he lived so long.

Sheriff Jack Campbell finally issued an apology following the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey by one of his deputies.

Autopsy results for Sonya Massey, the woman shot dead by a police officer in Illinois, confirmed she was killed by a gunshot wound to the head.

New information has been released regarding the employment history of Sean Grayson, the deputy charged in the shooting of Sonya Massey.

Scanner audio reportedly shows a deputy told dispatchers that Sonya Massey suffered self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

Joe Biden is calling on Congress to pass the George Floyd Law after the horrifying footage of police killing Sonya Massey is released.

A woman was reported missing in Illinois. Four days later, she was found dismembered in a river. Police have yet to solve her homicide, and it has become cold.

A 66-year-old Illinois woman started screaming during an alleged rape attempt and her neighbors came to save the day, officials said.

An Oklahoma man dubbed 'Pokemon Prowler' has been sentenced to prison for multi-state trading card store burglaries, officials said.

John Wayne Gacy lured innocent boys and young men into an awful den of despair, killing at least 33 during a six-year wave of terror in the 1970s.

An Illinois man awaits sentencing after he was convicted of strangling a teenage girl he lured to his home with the promise of Disney cups after a garage sale.

An Illinois woman conspired with her coworker to allegedly murder her boyfriend so they could start dating, police said.

An Illinois father is accused of leaving his 9-month-old son home alone so he could go rob a bank.

Two children were killed by being smothered to death. Now, their father will spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime, officials say.

A veterinarian in Chicago has been arrested for sharing child pornography, but officials say he bragged about plans to sexually assault his unborn child.

A sex worker was reported missing in Las Vegas. Weeks later, her legs were found in Illinois. How did they get there, and was it a case of murder?

Two brothers in Illinois have been convicted in connection to the fatal shooting of a police officer who stopped the pair for a traffic violation.

Police helped rescue a woman who mouthed 'HELP ME' as she drove by a traffic stop in Las Vegas, officials said.

An Illinois man called to a residence by his girlfriend after her ex-boyfriend showed up is now accused of attempted murder, police said.

A man in Illinois is behind bars after he allegedly fatally shot his wife and three adult daughters and then called 911, police said.

A man wanted for 8 murders in Illinois allegedly killed himself after run-in with U.S. Marshals in Texas after 2-day manhunt, officials said.

An Illinois woman and her cousin were fatally shot by her boyfriend during an argument over a state cash assistance card, officials said.

Florida man accused of shooting his half-brother while he was frantically searching for missing cell phone.

A dad in Illinois pleaded guilty but mentally ill to three murder charges after he drowned his three kids during a custody dispute with estranged wife.

A woman in Illinois will spend 55 years behind bars after pleading guilty to the murders of her boyfriend's parents in 2020.

An Illinois man was sentenced to three years in prison after an open red plastic cup of beer he was carrying led to his arrest on a weapons charge.

Illinois man accused of fatally beating a fellow resident at a nursing home with a walker after a fight over the laundry room.

Texas man accused of trying to smuggle cocaine to Indiana while hiding it in a Wendy's cheeseburger, officials said.

A man on furlough from jail in Illinois forced an elderly woman inside her home and killed her. Now, he will spend decades behind bars for murder.

Beginning in the late 1960s, the Zodiac Killer dressed in an executioner's hood and terrorized San Francisco by murdering multiple people.

A 10-year-old Illinois boy's body was found in a garbage can in his mom's garage. Now, police say he'd been dead for seven months.

A former "Family Feud" contestant has been found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder and home invasion in the killing of his estranged wife in Illinois.

A man in Illinois was fatally shot during a road rage incident. Now, officials say the shooter was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

A 9-year-old Chicago boy was fatally shot while playing outside his grandma's birthday party, according to authorities.

Drew Peterson was sentenced to 38 years behind bars for murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. After his sentencing, Peterson whimpered like a baby.

A suspect was taken into custody in Tennessee nearly a year after he allegedly shot two teenagers during a road rage incident in Illinois, authorities said.

A man in Illinois dreamt that his home was being robbed, so he grabbed his gun and shot the suspect. However, he shot himself in the leg, police said.

A 15-year-old boy is now the second teenager in custody accused of murdering a beloved drummer in Chicago, authorities said.

An Illinois man accused of killing his mother and stepfather accepted a plea deal that required him to admit to only his stepfather’s murder, officials said.

A man in Illinois will spend 50 years in prison after he strangled a 17-year-old girl to death. The man used Disney cups to lure the girl into his house.

An Illinois girl has been missing for almost six years after her non-custodial mother abducted her. Now, police say she was found safely in North Carolina.

Four teenagers in Chicago were arrested following the fatal shooting of a city police officer who had just finished her shift, officials announced.

A convicted sex offender in Illinois smothered a high school freshman to death and then disposed of her body in a dumpster, authorities claim.

A pair of thieves in Chicago were allegedly caught stealing $1 million from an armored truck after cops used an Apple AirTag to track the bags, police said.

A man in Chicago was in a drug-fueled state when he allegedly stabbed and strangled his quadriplegic father to death, according to authorities.

A corrections employee in Illinois was arrested on a first-degree murder charge after he fatally shot a man outside a nightclub, officials said.