Month: August 2025

The Chicago Police Department told state safety regulators that a barricaded suspect shot Officer Krystal Rivera when she’d actually been killed by her partner despite police investigators having viewed body-worn camera footage the night of the shooting.

An Indianapolis woman has been sentenced to six years in prison after federal agents intercepted her and a companion with nearly 62 pounds of cocaine at Midway Airport last year.

The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation is recognizing several officers for their bravery and determination in two recent high-profile cases, underscoring both the life-or-death emergencies and the painstaking investigations that define police work. Among the honorees is Field Training Officer Larry Branch Jr., who confronted a nightmarish scene in Logan Square on July 4. Dispatched to

A man who carjacked a woman in Lakeview while on parole for seven armed robberies has been handed a 12-year prison sentence. Around 5:20 p.m. on February 9, 2021, a 31-year-old woman was waiting for a parking spot to open in a residential driveway in the 600 block of West Iriving Park Road when Marqese