A Lake County man said winning a $300,000 Top Secret Cashword instant game prize is “the best feeling in the world!”

A suburban Chicago man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill for drowning his three young children has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A missing Livonia man was found dead in a river in Northern Michigan last week.

A suburban Chicago man who told his estranged wife “If I can’t have them neither can you” has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to three counts of first-degree murder for killing their three young children.

The state of Michigan is going to auction off 95 parcels of land this fallMichigan is preparing to auction off 95 parcels of land from several different counties throughout the state this fall. Here’s everything you need to know about that land, and how to make a bid.

The state of Michigan is going to auction off 95 parcels of land this fall.

A unsealed federal warrant says agents found bomb-making materials at the apartment of an alleged gunman charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago last year.

An Illinois grand jury has indicted the father of man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago.

A Ferndale man has been charged with multiple felonies after he traveled to Chicago to meet an undercover cop posing as a girl under the age of 15 for sex, officials said.

A former suburban Chicago police officer who was fired after he shot into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and seriously wounding the man’s girlfriend, has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

The 21-year-old man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more in a shooting at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago has pleaded not guilty, a week after prosecutors announced he faces 117 felony counts in the attack.

Authorities have recovered a small alligator following a high-speed car chase in northwestern Michigan.

A bellwether trial is set to start Monday in federal court in Cleveland to determine whether retail pharmacy chains are liable for costs related to the opioid crisis in two Ohio counties.

A prominent conservative defense attorney whose disappearance from court stalled a slew of U.S. Capitol riot cases says he has been released from the hospital and is preparing to get back to work.

Officers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are seeking information about a well known albino deer who was found dead Sunday, May 30 in Irons, an area within Lake County.

A Lake County man “about had a heart attack” when he realized he had won a $1 million Mega Millions prize from the Michigan Lottery.

Kyle Rittenhouse appears for an extradition hearing in Lake County court Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in Waukegan, Ill. The 17-year-old is accused of killing two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 25, 2020, two days after a police officer trying to arrest Jacob Blake shot him seven times in the back, paralyzing him from the waist down. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, Pool)

Mother Nature's helped us quite a bit," said Billy See, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection incident commander for a complex of fires burning south of San Francisco. The Santa Cruz fire is one of three complexes, or groups of fires, burning on all sides of the San Francisco Bay Area. You could overlay half of one of these fires and it covers the entire city of San Francisco, Bennett said Sunday. Authorities said their firefighting effort in Santa Cruz was hindered by people who refused to evacuate and those who were using the chaos to loot. Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said 100 officers were patrolling and anyone not authorized to be in an evacuation zone would be arrested.