Lansing News

Felony murder charges filed in a 2007 Munster homicide have been unsealed after the suspect, John Jerome Stokes, was moved from a federal penitentiary in Illinois to the Lake County Jail for his initial hearing.

Benefit spaghetti dinner: St. Paul's Lutheran Church and School, 8601 Harrison Ave., will have a benefit spaghetti dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday for the family of Todd Bergfors of Lansing, Ill., who was critically injured in an accident.

One person is in custody after robbing a South Holland bank, being pursued by police and crashing into an oncoming recreational vehicle Thursday morning.

A 4-year-old girl involved in a car crash Thursday in Lansing has died. Nevaeh McClain, of South Holland, was a backseat passenger in a vehicle that collided with a garbage truck in the 2100 block of Bernice Avenue about 7:20 a.m., Lansing police said.

A Lansing man accused of killing a member of his own gang by running him over with a sport-utility vehicle on the South Side early Sunday was charged with first-degree murder Thursday.

A car belonging to the niece of Rep. Bobby Rush was torched Tuesday morning in Lansing, Ill.

Police are seeking a gunman from south suburban Lansing in a drive-by that claimed the life of a man and left a teen critically wounded Monday night in the South Deering neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Police are seeking a gunman from south suburban Lansing in a drive-by that claimed the life of a man and left a teen critically wounded Monday night in the South Deering neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Jonathan Cooper used to live in Lansing, Illinois. He's been serving a 30-year sentence in Mississippi for manslaughter.

Three teens were arrested early Monday morning after allegedly breaking into an east side house, then fleeing the scene in an SUV before being stopped by police.

On Aug. 4, 2008, as an F2 tornado ripped through the Jelenski family's Griffith home, 6-year-old Ryan huddled in the basement with his mother, Elaine.

A man mistakenly freed from the Cook County Jail is back in custody. Jonathan Cooper used to live in Lansing, Illinois.

Sheriff's police are searching for a Mississippi man who was mistakenly freed from the Cook County Jail.

After serving south suburban park districts for 40 years, Jeff Boubelik will retire as Frankfort Park District executive director in April.

Frank Mangiaracina, owner of Friendly Frank's Comics Store in Lansing, Ill., was in a bind.

A local couple is in federal custody, accused in a murder-for-hire plot. Federal prosecutors say the woman offered an undercover agent $200 and a swimming pool to kill her ex-boyfriend. An FBI spokesperson called this case unique.

Could an above-ground swimming pool and $200 buy a murder? That was the payment a New Carlisle couple offered an FBI agent posing as a hit man, federal prosecutors say.

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was joined today by Jody P. Weis, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department and Tom Dart, Cook County Sheriff, in announcing the arrest of two southern Indiana residents in a murder-for hire plot.

Joe Jaeger got hooked on woodworking as a 12-year-old student at Heritage Middle School in Lansing, Ill.

Monday, June 15th, Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar will be adding a new restaurant in Lansing IL.