Felix Sarver

The Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees have voted to allow the release of a report regarding an investigation into what the chairman described last year as “employee grievances against members of this board.”

Felony murder and armed robbery charges were dismissed against a Joliet Township man after a Will County judge found no evidence to support the armed robbery charge. 

A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit case against a Will County SWAT sniper who fatally shot a hostage taker after he surrendered to the police in 2022.

A Joliet police detective is seeking to use the report of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s Office investigation of the police department in his federal racial discrimination lawsuit.

A fire caused damage to a truck repair facility in Channahon but no one was injured in the incident.

A Crest Hill man has been charged with the December 2024 attempted murder and robbery of a 57-year-old man in Joliet.

A political action committee chaired by a Joliet Democratic state senator has endorsed a write-in candidate whom the senator once worked for instead of the Democratic Party candidate for Joliet Township supervisor. 

A former Joliet nursing home resident died from high blood pressure and diabetes before the conclusion of a case accusing him of battering a fellow resident who died in 2023.

No formal charges have been filed against a Joliet man who was arrested after he was accused of using a vehicle to strike his wife while she was holding her 3-year-old grandson, police officials said.

A semitrailer caught on fire on Monday on Interstate 55 near Channahon. No reported injuries in the incident.

A Will County jury found a former landlord guilty of the 2023 Plainfield Township hate crime murder of a 6-year-old Muslim child and the attempted murder of the child’s mother. A sentencing hearing is slated for May 2.

Advocates of the family of a Muslim child who was killed in 2023 in Plainfield Township say the convicted killer was radicalized by unfounded and dehumanizing claims about Palestinians in media coverage of the Gaza war.

A former Plainfield Township landlord charged with killing a child by stabbing him 26 times and attempting to kill his mother based on their Islamic faith decided not testify at his trial on Thursday.

A Crete man has been charged in Will County court with threatening to shoot Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in the face.

The ex-wife of a former Plainfield Township landlord on trial for the hate crimes murder of a Muslim child said he was withdrawn, quiet and fearful that his tenant’s friends would harm him in the wake of the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.