The Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland after a confrontation that began with a traffic stop was once cautioned about "unprofessional conduct" in a 2014 incident while he was still a probationary trooper, according to documents released Friday.

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper, the kilt wearing trash-talker who headlined the first WrestleMania and later found movie stardom, died Friday. He was 61.

Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has closed out his political action committee, giving $10,000 to his legal defense fund, according to federal election records.

The wife of a Loop CEO who was fatally shot by an employee last summer has filed a lawsuit against the gunman's estate.

In the years leading up to her appointment as a South Holland trustee, Cindy Doorn-Nylen regularly provided interior plantscaping services to the village, records show.

A man claiming to be the son of President Obama was charged and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet after spurring a police bomb unit response outside of the President's Kenwood home on Thursday, prosecutors said Friday.

Ismael Lopez lived and died in a small patch of Back of the Yards thick with homicide memorials and gang graffiti.

Bicyclists Jason Ziomek and Michael Bailey had never met before Tuesday, but their paths crossed while they were completing their cycling regimens.

Three people were injured after a car that had been chased by police crashed in Goose Island early Wednesday, police said.

Tom Brady vowed to fight his four-game suspension for the scandal known as Deflategate, writing Wednesday in a 507-word Facebook post: "I did nothing wrong, and no one in the Patriots organization did either."