Felix Sarver

A New Lenox resident lost $12,924 after clicking the link on a phishing email that appeared to come from Xfinity, police said.

A female driver suffered a graze wound in a shooting in Joliet, police said. Officers responded to the shooting in the 300 block of South Water Street.

A bus tour led by Illinois Democratic senators made a stop in Joliet to speak out against cuts to social programs proposed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. 

A Joliet man charged with a violent crime had been released from jail in 2023 on the wrong bond amount by a former Will County sheriff’s deputy, who’s now facing sex crime charges, police records show. 

A Joliet man is accused of hitting a woman following an argument over taxes, firing a gunshot into a garage wall and then driving under the influence of alcohol afterward, according to prosecutors.

A man who reported he was the target of a Joliet shooting had left the scene during the investigation and two other people refused to cooperate with officers, police said.

A man charged with robbing with a bank in downtown Joliet claimed he needed the money to repair a vehicle and that the “universe owed him money,” prosecutors said.

A semitrailer driver was arrested in Joliet after he was accused of stealing the vehicle from a company that fired him, police said. The vehicle was found at Pilot Travel Center.

A Lockport man charged with the 2024 murder of his wife had reported to 911 she was accidentally shot but then wouldn’t give information regarding her death to police or paramedics, prosecutors said.

A former jailhouse informant is accused of a hit-and-run crash in Joliet on the same day he allegedly carried out an armed home invasion in New Lenox while wearing a Halloween mask, court records show. 

A former investigator for the Will County Public Defender’s Office was sentenced to serve 85% of an eight-year prison sentence for driving under the influence of drugs in a 2022 crash that killed a psychologist.

Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet will be closing down its inpatient pediatric unit but will continue to provide emergency services for pediatric patients, Prime Healthcare said.

An 82-year-old man died on Sunday from an apparent drowning in Joliet. 

A Will County judge has denied the pretrial release of a Markham man charged with the 2023 murder of a Joliet teen who was shot 25 times near a playground and community center.

A 35-year-old man was discovered dead inside of a vehicle in the parking lot of the Jewel-Osco grocery store on West Jefferson Street in Joliet.