A person of interest is in federal custody after an explosive device was found Saturday in an Evanston Police Department satellite office, officials said today.

Two people, including a child, were killed and three others seriously injured this morning in a head-on collision in west suburban Lyons, authorities said.

A man died early this morning after the boat he apparently was piloting on the Fox River near Barrington Hills overturned, authorities said.

A federal appeals court agreed with a lower court that federal prosecutors knew that a star witness during a five-week drug conspiracy trial was lying when he took the stand in a trial in which four people were convicted.

Detectives are asking for the public’s help finding a man or teenage boy believed to have sexually assaulted a 7-year-old girl in the Archer Heights neighborhood late Saturday.