Felix Sarver

Bolingbrook woman was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing almost $2.5 million from taxpayers by fraudulently billing Medicaid-funded companies for services she did not provided, state officials said. 

Attorneys for a former Joliet Township official claims Will County prosecutors broke the law when presenting evidence to a grand jury that led to pandemic relief fraud charges.

A Joliet man who has tattoos that say "Killinois" and "Angel Of Death" has been serving life in prison for the 2020 murder of a 25-year-old man.

Defense attorneys in a Lockport Township gun case claim a vehicle search during a traffic stop was unjustified because a deputy claimed he could smell marijuana that was never recovered.

A judge blocked the jail release of a Romeoville man charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. The judge found he was a flight risk after he allegedly tried to obtain a fraudulent passport in 1998.

The Joliet Fire Department will receive a national award that recognizes its community mental health program that has provided rapid care to more than 2,000 residents since 2022.

A woman may spend more than two months in prison after a Will County jury found her guilty of fatally stabbing a dog during a domestic disturbance in Crest Hill.

A Joliet grocery store and several restaurants were closed for one day as part of a nationwide protest in solidarity with immigrants in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The Joliet City Council will consider approving the donation of land with a value of about $377,000 from NorthPoint for the construction of a future water tower.

A man has been jailed after he was charged with a Jan. 18 shooting that damaged a house on Youngs Avenue in Joliet. 

A Joliet woman whose driver’s license had already been revoked is charged with a DUI after the car she was driving crashed into a semi-trailer truck, police said.

The rifle used in a Will County sheriff’s lieutenant’s fatal shooting of a hostage taker at a Romeoville bank was tested by “two independent bodies” and was found not to have malfunctioned, according to a company executive. 

Richard Wayt, 77, and Kathleen Wayt, 63, were identified as the people who were killed in the crash in Peotone Township in Will County.

A Joliet man who resides in the northeast part of the city was arrested after officers found 11 stolen vehicles, a stolen trailer, and a stolen tractor on his property, police said.

Two people were killed and four others injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a garbage truck near Peotone in Will County.