Richton Park News

Total to date: 279 EMS calls and 136 fire calls. May 6: 8:32 a.m., EMS call for a 75-year-old woman who fell, no transport; 12:10 p.m., brush fire at Harlem and North Peotone Road; 12:45 p.m., change of quarters ambulance to Manteno; 12:46 p.m., general alarm, multiple calls; 8:14 p.m., EMS call for a 36-year-old man choking, no transport.

Cydney Richardson, who is into science and math and wants to go into biomedical engineering, poses at Rich South High School in Richton Park, IL, on Tuesday, March 19, 2012.

A call on May 8 at 9:41 p.m. reported a structure fire, 29657 S. Joliet Rd. and requested assistance from Beecher, Manteno, Monee, Manhattan, University Park, Richton Park, Crete, Riverside Ambulance and Grant Park.

Who: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, South Suburban Mayors & Managers Association, Village of Richton Park, Rich Township High School District 227, and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago What: Household Hazardous Waste Collection When: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, 2013 Where: Rich South High School, ... (more)

Works of art from nine graduating Prairie State College students will be on display until May 23 in the Christopher Art Gallery, on the PSC main campus, 202 S. Halsted St., in Chicago Heights.

Only a few miles away in Richton Park, Pamela Carpenter, 58, claims to be No. 1 on the lung transplant waiting list at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

A teenage girl accused of carrying out a kidnapping plot with her parents to stop her lover from posting a naked picture of her online appeared in court Wednesday.

A suburban family was charged with attempted first-degree murder Sunday after they allegedly beat a man in Richton Park, stabbed him 17 times, broke his arm and punctured his kidney, bladder and leg.

A mom, her two children and another man have been charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery in connection to the group beating of a man Thursday night in south suburban Richton Park.