Five thousand pounds of high-powered fireworks were stolen from a storage facility in DuPage County, which worries authorities because improper usage could be fatal.

Officers get a yearly stipend for equipment and a bulletproof vest, but the costs are still far more than the stipend covers.

A Chicago couple posed as Kenyan refugees, got over $1 million from nuns and then gambled nearly all of it away.

An ex-basketball coach at Walter Payton College Prep High School on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting two 15-year-old students acknowledged buying sex toys and underwear for one of the girls and

Con artists are preying on senior citizens' desire to help family members in the latest phone scam.