Alexandria Fisher

A dog rescued from Lake Michigan on Chicago’s North Side Monday was reunited with its owner days after it went missing.

A suburban school bus driver was arrested after she allegedly purchased beer at a convenience store and drank it while picking up students during a morning bus route.

Authorities in southeastern Wisconsin say they now know the identity of a woman found fatally beaten near a cornfield in 1999 and have made an arrest in her death.

A jury awarded $101 million to the mother of a severely brain-damaged boy who sued a Chicago-area hospital for medical malpractice, but an agreement between the parties cut the amount to $50 million, a lawyer said Tuesday. Attorneys told a Cook County jury that medical staff at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park ignored ultrasound results that indicated the...

Jake Patterson, the man who kidnapped and held captive teenager Jayme Closs and murdered her parents, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the case. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has the latest.

The man who kidnapped Wisconsin teen Jayme Closs and killed her parents got into a fight in a New Mexico prison with an inmate who asked about the case, showing how word of his crimes has spread and raising questions about whether moving him to an out-of-state lockup accomplished anything.

A county health department in Illinois says a Michigan company voluntarily is recalling nearly 2,300 cases of apples due to potential listeria contamination.

It’s not uncommon for Halloween trick-or-treaters to know which houses give out the best candy – and that was exactly the inspiration behind a suburban man’s viral post on his community group’s Facebook page last month.

There’s a new warning for consumers who use Google’s popular calendar app as scammers are trying to trick users into giving up their personal information.

Singer R. Kelly is facing new charges in Minnesota as he continues to battle cases in Illinois and New York, prosecutors announced Monday. Kelly was charged with two counts of engaging in prostitution with an individual under 18 years old and offering to hire for sexual purposes a person under 18, according to Hennepin County State’s Attorney Mike Freeman.

New video appears to show a teen girl with special needs flagging down a police officer as the group of people who attacked her pulled her away – and police are investigating why the girl wasn’t helped.

A Jimmy John’s delivery driver was caught on camera apparently putting his mouth on a customer’s drink before delivering an order in a northwest Chicago suburb.

An employee at a Naperville gas station has been fired after video showing a confrontation between a cashier and group of Hispanic customers went viral on social media.

The stars of HGTV’s “Windy City Rehab” are facing trouble with their latest construction projects after Chicago officials suspended their permit privileges and may pull their license entirely.

The stars of HGTV’s “Windy City Rehab” are facing trouble with their latest construction projects after Chicago officials suspended their permit privileges and may pull their license entirely.

The Indianapolis archbishop has forced a Catholic high school to fire a gay teacher, just days after another school in the city defied a similar order despite church officials saying they would no longer recognize it as Catholic.

The Indianapolis archbishop has forced a Catholic high school to fire a gay teacher, just days after another school in the city defied a similar order despite church officials saying they would no longer recognize it as Catholic.

Another “Empire” actor has been arrested in Chicago, but this time on a traffic-related offense.

FBI investigators believe she’s dead, but there are still new reports of people seeing a missing Chinese scholar alive. Ying Ying Zhang disappeared at the University of Illinois last month. A former student there is charged with kidnapping her, but she was never found. Police are looking into multiple reports of people seeing Zhang in Salem, Illinois, about one...