A Will County jury on Wednesday found a former Joliet police officer accused of beating a woman during an arrest not guilty on all counts. Thomas O’Connor, 37, was charged with aggravated battery after the February 2012 incident in which he punched Shantique Jackson more than 20 times while attempting to arrest her. The jury

A man who says he was shot several times last summer by Joliet police officers has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the officers and the City of Joliet. The complaint, which will be pursued in federal court alleges excessive force and is seeking millions of dollars in damages. James Pacheco shows the scars left

A mysterious man dressed all in black and a Joliet firefighter allegedly engaged in a confrontation over political signs for a state Senate race on the eve of the Nov. 6 election. It boiled over, ending with a third man — Peter Steinys, a campaign worker who months later was elected to the Plainfield Park

There was no resolution Tuesday in the battery trial of a Plainfield Park District commissioner accused of attacking a rival campaign worker in November. Joliet firefighter Michael Carlin maintains that Peter Steinys, 56, intentionally hit him with a car door, then attempted to strike him before grabbing him by both arms in a dispute over campaign signs.

The trial of a Chicago man jailed since October 2007 in connection with a Plainfield murder is set to start Thursday morning. Jury selection for Ricardo Gutierrez’s trial started and finished Wednesday. Gutierrez, 23, allegedly gunned down Javier Barrios, who was 18 when he was killed. Barrios, a Romeoville resident, was first shot by his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old

Ricardo Gutierrez was 18 in 2007 when he was charged with murder for allegedly taking part in the fatal shooting of a Romeoville teenager in Plainfield. Jury selection began Wednesday in Gutierrez’s trial in Will County court. Javier Barrios, 18, was shot to death Oct. 28, 2007, behind a gas station near 135th Street and

A Will County judge will decide whether a Mokena mom crossed the line when she beat her son with a belt last spring after he got in trouble at school. Physical punishment by parents isn’t illegal, prosecutors said, but the beating Korie M. Kellogg, 30, gave the 10-year-old son she had with former Chicago Bull

SPRINGFIELD — Jeffery J. Tomczak sat alone, steadily paging through a stack of documents. Portraits of former chief justices silently observed him running through notes and case history at a long table in the attorney’s room — just outside the Illinois Supreme Court chambers. Soon, the owner of the Law Offices of Jeff Tomczak in Joliet would step

The son of former Chicago Bull Eddy Curry gets to go home to his mother, a Will County judge ruled Thursday. A grand jury indicted 30-year-old Korie M. Kellogg of Mokena this month on one count of aggravated battery after prosecutors said she beat the 10-year-old son she had with Curry with a belt. But

The ex-wife of former Chicago Bull Eddy Curry has been charged with aggravated battery of a child. Korie Kellogg, 30, of Mokena was charged with beating a child younger than 13 with a belt, authorities said. On Wednesday, Will County Judge Richard Schoenstedt granted her request to see her 10-year-old son with Curry based on