Riverside

A 61-year-old man is accused of driving drunk and causing a crash Thursday in suburban Riverside. Daniel Sheehan, of LaGrange Park, was arrested after he crashed his Ford F150 into a pickup truck about 10:30 p.m. at the intersection of 1st Avenue and Ridgewood Road, Riverside police said. Sheehan and the other other driver sustained minor injuries and refused to…

Illinois State Police believe they have located the body of two individuals whose vehicle hit a tree and tumbled into the Des Plaines River Sunday morning. According to the Illinois State Police, Riverside and Lyons police officers were called to the scene of a crash on Barrypoint Road in Lyons at approximately 8:22 a.m. Sunday. Upon arrival, investigators determined that…

Police are looking for two armed suspects who stole a vehicle from an Uber Eats delivery driver Saturday in west suburban Riverside.

Riverside police are looking for a man who allegedly posed for a caricature portrait and then stole hundreds of dollars from the artist. On Dec. 5 at the Festival of Lights event in downtown Riverside, the victim — who has been drawing caricatures for more than 26 years — was approached by a man who asked the artist to draw…

A man was critically injured after driving a pickup truck into the Des Plaines River Thursday in west suburban Riverside. The 2003 Chevrolet pickup was speeding westbound on Riverside Road at Olmsted Road about 6:35 p.m. when it left the road, hit a tree and continued across a residential property, through a park and into the river, according to a…

Six residents of a San Francisco Bay Area nursing home have died from the coronavirus

Riverside police are investigating a series of recent car burglaries in the west suburb. Three vehicles were broken into in the 700 block of Arlington and the 700 block of Selbourne, Riverside police said. None were locked, and the property that was stolen includes laptops, jewelry and cash. Officers noticed the burglarized vehicles after they saw a silver SUV in…

A 7-year-old Siberian Husky who was taken from her owner’s New Mexico residence five years ago and ended up in Riverside will be heading home for a happy reunion with the family that had given her up for dead.

Two senior Riverside residents were held against their will Saturday after a group of four unarmed men forced open a door and ransacked their west suburban home in what police are calling a targeted attack. Officers responded to the home invasion about 3:30 p.m. in the 300 block of Lionel Road, Riverside police said in a statement. The 86-year-old homeowner…

A man armed with a rifle while walking around Harrington Park in Riverside was shot by police Wednesday night, authorities said. Riverside police said they were called to a “suicidal subject” around 9:30 p.m. in the 3500 block of South Harlem. Officers arriving at the scene said they were approached by a 19-year-old man, who was armed. Officers told the…

A man is facing charges after allegedly hiding a teen girl who was reported missing from Cleveland in west suburban Riverside.

A man is facing charges after allegedly hiding a teen girl who was reported missing from Cleveland in west suburban Riverside.

A thief stuffed a total of 30 bags of frozen shrimp down his pants in back-to-back burglaries of a Southern California grocery store, police said Wednesday. The man took the shrimp from a Vons market in the city of Riverside by entering the store three times in a span of 15 minutes on Dec. 14. Each time he went to…

Body camera footage released Tuesday shows the tense moments a Utah state trooper spotted a kidnapping suspect’s van on Interstate 15 in Cedar City, where the lawman conducted a traffic stop and encountered the suspect, two other adults, and the victims.

A man was killed in a crash Thursday in west suburban Riverside.

Like health officials facing measles outbreaks, internet companies are trying to contain vaccine-related misinformation they have long helped spread. So far, their efforts at quarantine are falling short. The digital scrapbooking site Pinterest — which has been a leading online repository of vaccine misinformation — in 2017 took the seemingly drastic step of blocking all searches for the term “vaccines,”...

The father of an 8-year-old Riverside County boy reported missing by his mother in early March faces a first-degree murder charge after police determined the case is now a homicide investigation.

Authorities arrested a woman accused of posing as the wife of a firefighter battling Southern California’s massive Holy Fire in order to scam good Samaritans out of thousands of dollars in donations.

A woman suffered serious injuries and had to be airlifted to a hospital when she was attacked and mauled by three dogs in the unincorporated county area of Anza Saturday.

The chief executive of the California Historical Society has been named the new director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Anthea M. Hartig becomes the first woman to be permanent director of the museum, one of the most popular Smithsonian attractions. She succeeds John Gray, who retired in May. Hartig, 54, will oversee 262 employees and a $50...