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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…

A man was killed and two other people were injured Monday in a shooting at a CTA subway station in the Loop. Susan Carlson 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.

Carson Daly announced the news on TODAY Friday that his wife, Siri, is pregnant with their fourth child! “We couldn’t be happier to share the news that our family is growing by one this spring,” the couple told TODAY. “We are continually amazed by God’s blessings in our lives. Our entire family is grateful and so excited!” The baby, who...

The end of the hit Starz series “Power” is the beginning of several planned spinoffs, the first featuring Mary J. Blige. The Grammy-winning singer and actress said the announcement was probably the most exciting thing that would happen to her this year. Blige’s casting in the new show, titled “Power Book II: Ghost,” was announced Friday at a TV critics’...

Members of POWER (People Organizing for Women’s Empowerment and Rights) House stood on the steps of the Alabama State House on Thursday morning to protest HB314, a bill that amounts to a near total ban on abortions. As lawmakers showed up to vote, the women held up signs that read, “Abortion Is A Human Right,” NBC News reports. Under the...

The Michael Jackson estate has sent a letter to the U.K.’s Channel 4 warning that a documentary on two men who accuse the singer of molesting them as boys violates the network’s programming guidelines.

It was a fun and competitive weekend for a young group of all-stars as they visited Texas and represented Memphis, Tennessee, in a weekend football tournament. The players, some venturing outside of Memphis for the first time in their lives, built bonds on the field and off, says one of their coaches, Matt King. “They had a blast,” said King.

Lovely Varughese says she met with the prosecutor last week and she was ready for this. She says everything that could go right and wrong has happened over the years with her son’s murder case.

It was a stunning reversal for Gaege Bethune in September when Judge Mark Clarke told a shocked courtroom that he was overthrowing the jury’s first degree murder conviction in the 2014 death of Pravin Varughese.

It was a stunning reversal for Gaege Bethune in September when Judge Mark Clarke told a shocked courtroom that he was overthrowing the jury’s first degree murder conviction in the 2014 death of Pravin Varughese. Rob Stafford reports.

The conviction for a man found guilty in the 2014 death of a Southern Illinois University student has been vacated by a judge.

The conviction for a man found guilty in the 2014 death of a Southern Illinois University student has been vacated by a judge.

A man is facing felony charges after allegedly trying to sexually assault a person Thursday morning in the West Town neighborhood and robbing a series of other people at gunpoint.

A man is facing felony charges after allegedly trying to sexually assault a person Thursday morning in the West Town neighborhood and robbing a series of other people at gunpoint.

An East Bay mother is frustrated and wants answers after her 5-year-old was allowed to walk 2.6 miles from his school to his home alone.

A new defense attorney for the man convicted in the 2014 death of a Southern Illinois University student has won a delay in his sentencing as he aims to have the conviction thrown out.

In a campaign stop that was both political and personal, President Donald Trump targeted Democrat Jon Tester on Thursday in a bid to get more Republicans elected to the Senate but also to punish the lawmaker he blames for derailing his nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Trump unleashed a vigorous campaign-season attack on some of his most...

Lovely Varughese’s quest for justice took four and a half years. But the jury took just seven hours to convict Gaege Bethune of murdering her son Pravin.

NBC 5’s Rob Stafford has an exclusive interview with a suburban mother, who sits down for the first time since a man was convicted in the death of her son, a student at SIU.