State Police

An Illinois State trooper’s vehicle was struck by a drunk driver Sunday morning, while he was assisting with a traffic stop on Interstate 55 near west suburban Romeoville.

After a state trooper died by suicide Friday, mental health experts talked to NBC 5 about the pressure often felt behind the badge. Christian Farr reports.

Officers from several law enforcement agencies gathered at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office Friday to mourn the loss of an Illinois state trooper who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

A Maine woman and her two young children were killed in a car crash last week on a highway in Fairfax County, Virginia, state police confirmed. Lacquora Smith, 28, of Alfred, and her two daughters, a 4-year-old and a 6-year-old, died at the scene of the crash, which occurred just after 3 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 9. A 7-year-old girl…

Indiana State Police arrested a Glenwood, Illinois, man following a police chase on a northwest Indiana interstate early Monday morning – the suspect’s second pursuit in a period of four months, according to authorities.

The pervasive “parking issues” at Illinois’ Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Parks could lead to cars towed and hefty fines for motorists, police warned.

A hit-and-run crash was reported Saturday morning on the Dan Ryan Expressway on the South Side. About 1:30 a.m., a vehicle was southbound at a high rate of speed on Interstate 94 at 83rd Street when it struck the back of another vehicle, causing it to overturn, Illinois State Police said. The vehicle that caused the crash veered off the…

Illinois State Police released dashcam video Sunday of a traffic stop during which a 30-year-old man was fatally shot earlier in the week in south suburban Harvey. According to a press release, troopers conducted a traffic stop near 147th Street and Halsted Avenue in Harvey at approximately 12:28 a.m. Wednesday after observing a vehicle with no working headlights. At the…

A driver was taken into custody after crashing into an Illinois Department of Transportation truck that was blocking a Dan Ryan Expressway exit ramp Sunday on the Near West Side. A vehicle hit the IDOT truck shortly before 2 a.m. on the I-94 offramp near Roosevelt Road and Desplaines Street, according to Illinois State Police. The driver was arrested and taken...

An Illinois State Police trooper was injured in a crash while blocking traffic for a stalled truck Saturday on I-290 in west suburban Elmhurst. The trooper was in a squad car about 4:40 a.m. Saturday blocking the two left westbound lanes of the expressway near York Street when a gray Nissan rear-ended the squad car, according to a statement from…

An autopsy ruled a woman’s death a homicide after she lost control of her vehicle and was struck by a state trooper’s vehicle Monday on I-57 in the south suburbs. Sindi Miller, 29, of the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, died of blunt force trauma due to a motor vehicle crash that happened about 2:30 a.m. near 138th Street, the Cook...

Seven people are dead and seven others are injured after a vintage plane crashed Wednesday morning at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.

All southbound local lanes on the Dan Ryan may be closed well into the afternoon hours Friday after a semitrailer crashed near Bridgeport on the South Side.

Modified stock car great Michael Stefanik has been killed in a single-engine plane crash. He was 61. State police say the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Sterling near the Rhode Island state line. They say the single-engine, single-seat Aerolite 103 took off from the Riconn Airport in Coventry, Rhode Island, and had been turning back toward the airfield when it...

Law enforcement officials say two men escaped serious injury when a float plane crashed into Rangeley Lake. Video showed the plane attempting to take off and then losing altitude and splashing into the water on Thursday. The plane came to a rest upside down but the pilot and passenger freed themselves and swam to shore.

The Cessna 303 aircraft departed Orange County Airport Saturday and stopped to refuel at Sky Acres in LaGrangeville. While en route to Farmingdale, it crashed into Gerry Bocker’s house on Smith Road in Union Vale, killing him and injuring one of his two daughters, according to state police.

A Pennsylvania couple is accused of faking the birth and death of a baby to obtain more than $600 in donations and gifts from friends and family.

Comedian Andy Dick says he was assaulted outside a New Orleans nightclub after performing in the French Quarter.

An escaped herd of bison is roaming free in rural upstate New York, grazing in hay fields as the owner works with state police and the Department of Environmental Conservation on a roundup plan. State police say Monday that about 75 bison escaped last week from a farm in Sharon Springs, 45 miles west of Albany. Police are asking anyone...

A 2-year-old girl whose family said wandered away as they prepared to leave a woodland campsite in northern Michigan has been found alive, Michigan State Police said Tuesday morning. Gabriella Roselynn Vitale was reported missing from the campsite in Oscoda County about 8:15 a.m. Monday and her pink coat was found a few hundred yards from where she was last...