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Chicago police are speaking to a person of interest in the murder of a pregnant woman found in Lake Michigan last month, a police spokesperson said Friday.

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in…

The NBC10 Investigators have learned that Hopkinton teen Mikayla Miller’s death has been ruled a suicide, according to a death certificate filed by the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Brian Sicknick died from injuries sustained in the Jan. 6 riot.

Family and friends of a Chicago police officer who was found dead inside his home are still waiting for answers from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office on what caused his death. The officer was identified as 46-year-old Titus Moore, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Moore was found unresponsive with no signs of trauma Tuesday morning...

Family and friends of a Chicago police officer who was found dead inside his home are still waiting for answers from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office on what caused his death. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen has the latest details.

Authorities have identified the husband and wife that were found dead under “suspicious circumstances” Monday night inside a home in west suburban Oak Park. Regina Waldroup reports.

Authorities say two people were found dead under “suspicious circumstances” Monday night inside a home in west suburban Oak Park. NBC 5 Sandra Torres reports.

Human skeletal remains were found Tuesday in Hammond, Indiana. About 5:15 p.m. officers received a call from a man saying he was walking his dog and came across the remains near a wooded path off of Marble Street near State Line Avenue, according to Hammond police. A death investigation into the identity of the person and the cause of death…

Authorities are conducting a homicide investigation into the death of an 11-month-old boy from Roseland on the South Side. D’Siyah Thomas died Tuesday morning at LaRabida Children’s Hospital due to complications from inflicted head trauma, according to autopsy results from the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His death was ruled a homicide. Few details have been released about the...

After an 18-year-old woman with mental disabilities was found dead in her Riverside County home, her mother and stepfather were charged with murder, abuse, and child endangerment Friday.

Bond was set at $5 million Monday for a Kenosha mother accused of methodically murdering her two small children before attempting to take her own life so she and her kids “wouldn’t bother” their father anymore, prosecutors said.

A Kenosha mother accused of methodically murdering her two small children will appear before a judge for the first time Monday.

Two young children were found dead inside a home in southeastern Wisconsin early Saturday morning.

Autopsies performed Monday on the bodies of a mother and her three sons found in a home in the Chatham neighborhood did not yield many answers.

Two people died after they were found inside a north suburban garage with high carbon monoxide levels early Saturday, police said.

The decomposing bodies of four people were found inside a home on the South Side of Chicago Saturday evening, but the cause of their deaths remains a mystery.

As investigations continue into the death of a suburban Chicago woman inside a Texas jail, the district attorney in Waller County, Texas, said her death “will not be swept under the rug.”

Patrick Boswell, an eighth grader at Iroquois Community School in Des Plaines, was found lying on the ground in Rosemont with an apparent gunshot wound.