Kenneth Paterimos was killed outside a bar in River West Friday. Police have not charged the man for the attack, but told Block Club Chicago that witnesses reported seeing the man yell homophobic slurs at Paterimos.

In the wake of a midday stabbing Monday on Chicago’s 606 pedestrian trial, NBC 5 Investigates along with Telemundo Investiga,analyzed all crime data reported by the Chicago Police Department since 2016 – the first full year that the 606 trail was open. We found that in 2016 police reported 28 total criminal incidents on the trail – to date, an…

A Maryland woman will spend 180 days in jail for keeping 66 dogs in deplorable conditions in her home.

NBC 5 Investigates has found that with the recent increase of car hijackings in January and February of 2020 Chicago is on pace to see 750-800 carjackings this year – an increase from the past few years. We’ve created an interactive map, showing everywhere that people have been carjacked in Chicago between Jan. 1 and Feb. 20. NBC 5 Investigates…

Derrel McDavid was recently indicted on new charges. He’s requesting trial to begin in April.

NBC5 Investigates recently revealed that violent crime on CTA’s rapid-transit lines, stations and platforms has doubled, in the past six years. We also created an interactive map to show the numbers of violent crimes and thefts at each of CTA’s 123 rapid-transit stations. But the Red Line station at Jackson Street — site of Monday’s shooting — clearly tops the…

NBC 5 found that violent crime in Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit stations, platforms and trains has doubled over the past six years, while thefts have increased by nearly two-thirds over that same period.  At the same time, the rate of arrests in these crimes has dropped. In 2019, police made an arrest in only a quarter of the violent…

A Washington state woman and her 16-year-old daughter were arrested Friday afternoon after the woman allegedly posed as a baby photographer and drugged a mother in an attempt to steal her newborn, NBC News reports.

An NBC 5 Investigation shows a dramatic increase in both violent crimes and petty thefts –while arrests are on the decline. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey Investigates.

Multiple men were caught on camera stealing a puppy from a pet store in suburban Joliet Monday.

The cousin of a convenience store owner, who was fatally shot during a robbery Friday afternoon on Chicago’s South Side, says her family still can’t believe what happened. Mohammed Maali was shot and killed at about 1:45 p.m. after four robbery suspects entered his store on East 71st Street in the Park Manor neighborhood. Maali shot the offenders, striking...

Police are warning delivery drivers of two armed robberies since last month in Morgan Park on the South Side.

A fire marshal with the Chicago Fire Department has been convicted on federal charges for depositing nearly $350,000 in violation federal reporting requirements.

Police in North Carolina have arrested a man accused of dousing a woman in flammable liquid and lighting her on fire

Walgreens will pay $7.5 million to settle with California authorities after an employee was criminally charged with impersonating a pharmacist and illegally filling more than 745,000 prescriptions in the San Francisco Bay Area.

At least nine people have been injured in shootings across the city of Chicago so far this weekend, police said. Here are the shootings that have happened as of Saturday evening: Saturday A 32-year-old man and 39-year-old man both suffered gunshot wounds at approximately 2:53 a.m. in the 200 block of North Pulaski, police said. The victims were standing on…

Federal prosecutors in Vermont say a health information technology company will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that it helped set up an electronic health records system that encouraged physicians to prescribe opioids to people who might not need them

Two people are in custody after they tried fleeing a traffic stop and hit two vehicles and a Chicago police officer Sunday in Washington Park on the South Side.

A fifth body has been found on a property in this border city, and Mexican officials said Tuesday that they are beginning to suspect they may have a serial killer in custody.

A 14-year-old girl is safe Thursday after detectives say she managed to contact some friends though Snapchat after being kidnapped.