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Criminal charges have been filed against a man accused of hitting a Chicago police officer with a car Friday while fleeing a traffic stop in Fernwood on the Far South Side.

A man from west suburban Aurora was sentenced to almost a decade in prison for punching a man in the face and leaving him with significant facial injuries.

Heather Locklear has pleaded no contest to charges that she fought with first responders during two visits to her Southern California home last year. Locklear entered the plea in Ventura County court Friday afternoon to five counts of battery on a peace officer, one count of battery on emergency personnel and two counts of resisting, obstructing or delaying a peace...

An Uptown man is facing felony charges after allegedly taking a hammer to a man he met on a dating app and fighting police when confronted.

NBC 5 news has obtained the chilling video and audio that shows how a brazen shooting in the bustling River North neighborhood played out in the early-morning hours Wednesday.

NBC 5 Investigates has found that the man who drove the wrong way on I-94 early Saturday, killing Illinois State Trooper Gerald Ellis head-on, had been cited at least 26 times in Cook County for driving without a license. He also had been arrested repeatedly for DUI, drugs, assault, battery and 50 additional traffic violations.

Police believe a “major tragedy was prevented” when they arrested an armed man hiding in a suburban church’s basement this week.

Officers told a man brandishing a “large meat cleaver” to drop the weapon multiple times in English and Cantonese before one of the officers shot the man in the leg after responding to a call last month, according to documents and video released Wednesday.

Two men were charged with kidnapping an actor and actress in South Los Angeles last year and holding the actor for ransom in a plot allegedly involving a woman whose arrest was caught on video that went viral on social media, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

A convicted felon who jumped from a balcony earlier this month, eluding Cook County sheriff’s officers, seemed to be out of fresh ideas when the cops returned to his apartment earlier this week.

Heather Locklear has been hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation after a family member claimed the “Melrose Place” actress was threatening to kill herself, TMZ reported Monday.

Should handguns be allowed inside home daycares? A lawsuit filed in federal court Monday argues they should.

A man is facing a felony charges after a Chicago Police officer shot him Tuesday afternoon while responding to a domestic-related call in the Bridgeport neighborhood.

Two men who were nearby when a Colorado sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed were interviewed and released, authorities said Friday as a suspect in the slaying prepared to make his first court appearance. A statement issued on Twitter by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office said no other suspects were being sought in the killing of 31-year-old Deputy Heath Gumm....

The father of a 5-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself Tuesday night in the South Chicago neighborhood has been charged with multiple felonies.

A felon is facing multiple weapons charges after police allegedly caught him with an assault rifle following a chase early Saturday in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood.

A north suburban man caught on radar doing over 120 mph on his motorcycle made things worse by running down a sheriff’s deputy with his bike while trying to avoid a traffic stop, according to police.

A Chicago police officer shot a person on the city’s Southwest Side Saturday night, authorities said.