Investigators say the illegal grows also polluted streams and littered sites with thousands of pounds of garbage.

Margaret Brown died after Austin Jones ran a red light at 50 mph; her husband of 60 years testified at sentencing.

A multi-vehicle crash on I-44 near Pennsylvania Avenue left a motorcyclist dead Wednesday, snarling traffic to one lane.

The training commission paid $5 million for a vacant Chesterfield Airport Road lot after weighing five or six sites.

Students were evacuated to a nearby church Tuesday before classes were canceled districtwide Wednesday to let staff regroup.

Rescuers used two boats to reach the overturned SUV near Exit 4. The driver later died at Elliot Hospital.

Students reported the alleged behavior, prompting Mundelein police and DCFS to get involved.

Ivan Kelvon Sipert was released from custody while prosecutors decide whether to charge him in the May 2025 attack on a cat named Freddie.

A shooting near West McKellips and North Center sent four to hospitals Tuesday evening. Mesa police detained one person as they investigate.

A barber testified she did not see Kobe Chantharangsy holding a gun but believed he must have pulled the trigger from beneath his cape, killing Jampier Quintero as he waited with his kids.

Amber Martinez sat cross-legged in the road near Madison Street before pulling away from an officer, police say.

Irvine police say a report of suspicious circumstances led officers to find an apparent pipe bomb in a car, prompting an evacuation near Orchard Hills.

Police used CPR and a defibrillator behind a Spring Valley Road apartment complex before medics arrived. The man's identity has not been released.