Christina Payton allegedly sent explicit photos to a 17-year-old on four dates in April, court records show.

A man was shot in the head outside on the 2800 block of South Kedzie Avenue. No one is in custody.

One person died and three others in the car were hurt near Gibson City. All 20 middle schoolers on the bus were taken to hospitals as a precaution.

Twelve aldermen want the city to suspend or void wrongful-conviction payments to recipients later charged with felonies.

Shaninth Michael Ray kept threatening the family even from custody, prosecutors say. A judge stacked his new sentence on top of another one.

Spanish police found him married with three kids in Cartagena, decades after ditching a Pennsylvania court date.

Police say the crash left a man pinned against a fence before the driver was arrested on Class X felony charges.

Lavonne Glenn faces murder charges nearly seven weeks after Christopher Lakes was shot on North Latrobe Avenue. A motive still isn't known.

Arvell Lyons, 34, died after a dispute erupted into gunfire on West 73rd Street. Two other men were hurt and no arrests have been made.

South Bend Police detained several people but haven’t confirmed their role in the overnight shooting near campus.

Armored trucks and police vehicles lined a Waukegan block Friday as SWAT teams ended a tense standoff over an alleged aggravated battery.

Firefighters could not search the fully engulfed home until flames were knocked down. The cause remains under investigation.

Two off-duty Chicago officers were hurt trying to break up a fight that began as a verbal argument at the South Side beach.