Ryan L. Kozak, 22, of Bolingbrook faces 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of aggravated battery. Kozak had been charged with the attempted murder for the 2009 stabbing of Adam Roser in Romeoville. However, prosecutors agreed to drop that charge in exchange for Kozak’s guilty plea to the aggravated battery counts. [...]

A Joliet Police officer arrested three people suspected of stealing his identity, as reported in the Herald News.  The patrol officer, who Cmdr. Al Roechner declined to identify, was off duty when his wallet fell out of his pocket as he left Walgreens, on 1163 W. Jefferson St. Surveillance video showed a woman identified as [...]

A federal grant will allow Will County Drug Court $200,000 to increase the number of program participants struggling with heroin addiction.  The program, which originally began in 1999, provides non-violent offenders with resources and treatment for their drug addictions. Thirty-two percent of drug court clients reported that heroin was their primary addiction, a fourteen percent [...]