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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Sheriff's Office released new footage of a deputy saving a man's life on I-90. WARNING: The content of this video could be disturbing for some. ABC7 is showing the ...

Grant Parker, with a history of mental illness, died last Tuesday after hanging himself in Central Jail, sheriff says ...

Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones said a contraband investigation involving an inmate training program at Sequoyah High ...

A brawl broke out between nearly a dozen inmates at the Lake County Jail in Waukegan in late January, causing several of them to get injured and battery charges to be filed against them.

Five people are facing charges after a report of suspicious items under a shed at Sequoyah High School led a school resource ...

A Cook County woman has been found guilty of stealing more than $100,000 from her late mother’s Chicago Teachers Pension Fund ...

The investigation began after drugs were found hidden under a shed on school property in Monroe County, Sheriff Tommy Jones said.

The needs of a Carrolltown juvenile charged with criminal homicide in late September 2025 are being met within an area of the Cambria County Prison that is sight and sound separate from the adult ...

Officials from several agencies have denied the details of Sunny Naqvi's story are accurate, including Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt.

The jail had been out of compliance with minimum state standards set by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards since January 2025.

It was alleged that the woman and five coworkers returned from Turkey to O'Hare and were held for 30 hours. Since then, DHS, along with the Cook County and Dodge County sheriff's offices, said that ...