Lake County Sheriff

Following Tuesday’s mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead at a Texas elementary school and scrutiny of the police response, Lake County Sheriff John D. Idleburg wrote a message to residents, explaining what steps would be taken if an “active threat” were to occur in Lake County. Police admitted to a stunning string of failures Friday —…

Texas authorities acknowledged Friday that officers did not immediately enact a tactical response during a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, despite 911 calls from students inside begging for help.

A suburban school bus driver’s blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when he collided with an SUV while transporting students in Lake County, authorities said. James Dolan, 61, of Hoffman Estates, was transporting students from Barrington School District 220’s Prairie Middle School on Thursday when he failed to yield to oncoming traffic at Cuba and Ela…

A woman and baby were killed Friday when the car they were riding in crashed into a semi during a police chase in northwest Indiana, according to officials. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen reports.

A woman and infant died Friday after a crash on Interstate 80/94 in northwest Indiana that started as a police chase, according to law enforcement.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning Thursday of a scam involving an offender posing as police officer calling residents. The sheriff’s office is investigating a series of these offenses in which an unknown caller poses as a police officer calling residents saying there’s an active warrant for their arrest. According to police, the offender identifies himself as...

An Indiana town official recently apologized for wearing a Blackface costume at a Halloween party nearly 20 years ago. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A northwestern Indiana City Council member and police officer has apologized after photos recently surfaced of him in blackface nearly 20 years ago at a Halloween party.

Police released video Thursday of a vehicle wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man last month in Gary, Indiana.

Two teenage boys from Carol Stream were shot, one of them fatally, Sunday after getting into a fight with a Round Lake Beach man who allegedly found them in his stolen vehicle in northwest suburban Volo. The 35-year-old man saw the boys, both 17, in his vehicle about 2:45 a.m. near Route 12 and Route 120 after it had been…

Two men were fatally shot Friday at a home in the Northwest Indiana town of Griffith. The Lake County Coroner’s Office identified the victims as Elijah Robinson, 18, and Maxwell Kroll, 17. Officers responded around 12 p.m. to the 5900 block of West 59th Street after the girlfriend of one of the victims found both men unresponsive, according to the…

A Lake County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with felony official misconduct after he allegedly responded to domestic battery call by doing nothing more than encourage a woman to get back in a car with a man who was suspected of striking her in the face.

A 27-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Antioch Township early Sunday morning, police said.

Nine people were arrested in a multi-jurisdictional warrant operation earlier this month in the north suburbs.

A pro tem sheriff for Lake County, Indiana, will be appointed in the next month after Sheriff John Buncich was convicted Thursday in connection with a bribery and fraud scheme involving towing contracts.

A Northwest Side man has been charged with a pair of ruse burglaries earlier this summer in north suburban Deerfield and Long Grove.

Nearly a month has passed since Dennis Hastert left the Minnesota prison where he lived for more than a year, and he is no longer under electronic monitoring.

Two men accused of taking part in the rape of an Indiana teenager in Ohio appeared in federal court Wednesday.

New court documents paint a disturbing picture of what a 14-year-old girl went through after vanishing from her northwest Indiana home last Thursday.