Joe McMahon

A man from west suburban Aurora is headed to prison after being found guilty of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and beating her.

A 73-year-old Carpentersville man was charged Saturday with first-degree murder after stabbing a woman—he claims was a close friend—to death in 2011.

A man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison following a fatal shooting of a man two years ago in a west suburban nightclub.

The fatal shooting of a Kane County Jail detainee in last year by a SWAT team officer during a standoff at a west suburban hospital has been ruled justified, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a statement Thursday at the close of their review.

A Kane County correctional officer is facing felony charges after he allegedly sexually assaulted an inmate.

A West Dundee youth minister was sentenced to prison Monday for child sex abuse charges.

A northwest suburban man faces up to seven years in prison after admitting to fatally punching his father for walking in on his girlfriend in the bathroom, the Kane County state’s attorney says.

Richard Craig will have to register for life as a child sex offender when he’s released from prison. Robert Craig will never be released.

A west suburban man was sentenced Friday for severely beating a child in 2011.

The inmate shot and killed by a SWAT officer at a suburban hospital Saturday was transported to the medical facility for surgery after eating part of his plastic, jail-issued sandal, the Kane County State’s Attorney said Monday.

A day after a deadly hostage standoff at a hospital in Geneva, questions are being raised about how an inmate was able to gain control of a weapon and set off the chain of events that took place.

A day after an inmate took two nurses hostage and was shot to death at Delnor Hospital in Geneva, questions are being raised about what led up to the incident. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports.

A Geneva woman pleaded guilty to murdering her husband after giving him a smoothie laced with a sedative to “end his suffering,” prosecutors say.

A northwest suburban woman has pleaded guilty Thursday to beating her boyfriend to death with a frying pan in their apartment three years ago.

A west suburban man has been charged with murdering his wife and putting her body on train tracks near their Geneva home last weekend.