The Will County Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) has been selected to receive three grants for programs to help children who have endured sexual abuse, severe physical abuse, sexual exploitation, child pornography, neglect and exposure to violence.

A 27-year-old customer of a window tinting business in New Lenox Township is being held on a $500,000 bond after he allegedly beat the business owner who later died. Devon Ward was arrested and charged with aggravated battery in connection ...

A 38-year-old man from Los Angeles, Calif., stopped by Will County Sheriff’s Office police around 8:20 a.m. July 7 while heading eastbound on Interstate 80 was charged with obstructing justice and obstructing identification.

A Joliet Police dash cam video from earlier this year has surfaced showing a police officer sticking a baton in a suspect’s mouth to scoop out suspected drugs while another officer held the man’s nose. That video from late January ...

On Thursday, June 25th 2020, the New Lenox Police Department obtained an arrest warrant for a 16 year-old male juvenile from Harvey. The warrant, for two counts of First Degree Murder, stems from a shooting that occurred on May 11, ...

The Will County Sheriff’s Office is seeking assistance from the public regarding the identification of a suspect involved in an aggravated battery complaint. Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a battery complaint at Shades of Darkness Window Tinting, located at 13957 ...

Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow has announced that 52-year-old Lockport resident Candido Cordero was sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to predatory criminal sexual assault of an eight-year-old child in the child’s home. The sentence also ...

A 32-year-old Joliet man died from gunshot wounds following a shooting in the early morning hours of June 12th, according to Joliet Police.

Joliet police and Will County Sheriff’s police on Tuesday responded to a number of separate shootings - two of them resulting in fatalities - on the city’s east side and in unincorporated Joliet and Lockport townships.

After responding to a report of shots fired in the 1100 block of Parkwood Drive in the early morning hours of April 25, Joliet police arrived on the scene to find three people had suffered gunshot wounds.

While the Joliet City Council has taken the first step toward bringing a controversial business park proposal to fruition, some community groups vehemently opposed to it plan to continue their fight.

A Lockport Township coupled were found dead in their home on April 2 after what Will County Sheriff’s Office police determined was an apparent murder-suicide. Deputies from the Office were dispatched to the 400 block of Bruce Road in Lockport ...

A man incarcerated at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill is among eight new deaths from the Coronavirus in Illinois, and 18 other inmates were taken to AMITA Health Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, officials said.

Carzil D. Pruitte (38, Joliet) was arrested, booked, and transported to the Will County Jail for the offenses of Aggravated Battery, Battery, and Endangering Life/Health of a Child. On 03/09/2020 at approximately 03:39pm, Officers responded to the 500 blk of ...

ALTHOUGH THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH A CRIME, THE CHARGE IS MERELY AN ACCUSATION AND THE DEFENDANT IS PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. 20th Officers were called to Kohl’s, 1138 W. Boughton Rd. for the report of a ...