Bail was set at $1 million when Grammy-winning R&B singer R. Kelly appeared in a Cook County court on charges of sexually assaulting four people.
A gunman shot a doctor to death outside a Chicago hospital before storming the facility and killing a pharmaceutical assistant and a police officer.
The son of former football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted of molesting boys for 15 years, been sentenced for child sex crimes.
California police arrested a professor from Illinois and an employee of Oxford University, who were both sought in connection with a fatal stabbing in Chicago.
Nick Menza collapsed while performing with his band OHM in California, says a spokesman. Menza was 51 .
Autopsy found painkiller was in star's system at time of death, and that he had a dangerously low red blood cell count.
Music icon Prince died one day before he was scheduled to meet a doctor who specialises in addiction treatment.
An 18-year-old student opened fire with a handgun on the campus of Northern Arizona University, killing one person and wounding three others.
A US man charged with capital murder in the killing of a deputy was arraigned in a case tied to the “Black Lives Matter” campaign.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers stepped up their hunt for two convicted murderers who escaped from an upstate prison.
The search for two inmates who escaped from a New York prison two weeks ago intensified after a tip-off.
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