Felix Sarver

A Will County judge will decide whether a Joliet man committed first-degree murder or was acting in self-defense during a 2021 incident where a teen was shot and killed.

Will County sheriff's deputies responded to the shooting on Tuesday in the 2300 block of East Exchange Street in Crete Township.

Two 9 mm bullets were found on the floor of a classroom at Joliet Central High School but officers who responded did not find any weapons or other “concerning items,” school officials said.

A Joliet police spokesman said a man was wanted for a case in Chicago. The specifics of the case and the warrant were "unknown," he said.

After 35 years, Jerry Conner still remembers traveling with fellow firefighters from Beecher to Plainfield in response to the 1990 tornado that claimed 29 lives and injured hundreds of people. 

During James Glasgow’s discussion in a recent podcast interview on the SAFE-T Act, he briefly spoke about his office’s struggle with whether a sheriff’s lieutenant’s fatal shooting was negligent or reckless.

A Will County judge decided not to dismiss an Elwood murder case after finding there was no bad faith on the part of prosecutors regarding a detective’s missing field notes.

A federal indictment accused four business owners from Will, Cook and DuPage counties of fraudulently obtaining about $2.8 million from COVID-19 pandemic relief programs.

A Democratic Will County Board member has been charged with the misdemeanor offense of unauthorized access of emails from a Republican Will County board member.

A Joliet man remains at large on charges accusing him of driving under the influence of alcohol in a crash that caused injury to another driver and his 2-year-old daughter.

A New Lenox woman said she was persuaded by a caller claiming they’re from a federal department to deposit $37,560 into a Bitcoin machine, police said.

A Will County judge determined prosecutors did not violate disclosure rules in a case where a Lockport man is charged with meeting someone thought was a teen girl for sex. 

Joliet police officials are still investigating why a Chicago man on parole from prison chose to burglarize a home occupied by a woman and her baby. The woman shot and killed the man when he broke inside the home.

Residents of a Plainfield Township home were displaced by an attic fire that appears to have been accidental in nature.

Musicians from Nashville and Michigan played music on the porches of historic homes in Joliet's Cathedral Area on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. Will County was under heat advisory on Saturday but plenty of people still came out to listen to blues, bluegrass, rock, New Orleans brass and other music.