A jury awarded $1 million to a Chicago, Ill., man who spent a year in jail before he was found him not guilty of assaulting a police officer. John Collins sued the city of Chicago for bringing an aggravated battery …
A suburban Illinois man has filed a $100,000 lawsuit over an alleged house-cat attack. The Chicago Sun-Times reports William Baxter filed the suit recently in Will County Circuit Court. He alleges the feline “viciously attacked, bit and clawed” him while …
A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Monday to more than 71/2 years in prison for obtaining a deadly puffer-fish toxin to deploy as a weapon, which federal authorities once accused him of wanting to use to kill his wife. Edward …
The death of a 9-year-old Pomeranian from eating a dog treat is hardly “what nature intended,” according to a lawsuit filed this week. An Illinois man has sued Nestle Purina Petcare Co and Wal-Mart Stores Inc, saying his dog died …