Crimes

Troubled former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young knows he has a mental illness, according to a former teammate. Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch told the Detroit Free Press that Young once showed him paperwork explaining his disorder. "He's...

Man arrested after fleeing from police A Hustonville man was arrested early this morning after allegedly fleeing from police in Danville. Just after midnight, Danville police officer Chris Wentz attempted to stop a 2001 Ford car near Hustonville...

Authorities arrested two additional suspects Thursday in the alleged assault on a man by a group of skateboarders, police said. There are now five suspects involved in the case. Viktor Silcock, 25, of Huntington Beach, was allegedly attacked by a...

Three of the four teens who allegedly beat a man nearly to death with skateboards were charged Thursday with assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury, said Huntington Beach Police Lt. Mitch O’Brien. One suspect was released without...

Kiera Wilmot, the Polk County girl who caused a small explosion on her high school campus by mixing household products, will not face criminal charges, the State Attorney's Office said Wednesday. Kiera, 16, was a student at Bartow High School until last...

A masked man broke who into a Deltona woman's home, demanded money and slashed her face Wednesday wasn't a stranger after all. The attacker, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said, was the woman's husband, Timorthy Hunter, 29. The 27-year-old victim...

Treasure hunters have long pilfered arrowheads, pottery and other archaeological artifacts on state lands, risking jail time if caught. But a loophole in state law meant that looters didn't face consequences for their thievery on Lake County Water...

The following items were taken from La Grange, Oak Park and River Forest police reports. La Grange •A suspicious person was reported following a group of girls and making them uncomfortable May 17 near the La Grange Public Library, 10 W....

A Baltimore police sergeant found guilty of malfeasance for using false information to obtain a search and seizure warrant was sentenced Monday to three years of supervised probation, according to the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office. Sgt. Dennis...

A 36-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for kidnapping a Burbank woman in 2006 and raping her in a Glendale hotel room, officials said. Edward Nikolayan must also serve six to eight years concurrently for the additional charges of...

The on-campus arrest of her 16-year-old daughter and the classification of her would-be science project as a "destructive device" has left Polk County mother Marie Wilmot exhausted, frustrated and eager for a return to a life of "just me and my girls,"...

A former Compton deputy fire chief -- who has also starred on a reality television series -- has been arrested on suspicion of arson and grand theft in connection with a fire that destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of radio equipment in late...