Incarcerated students accepted their diplomas from Augustana College at a commencement inside East Moline Correctional Center ...

A jury reached a guilty verdict for Crosetti Brand after deliberations began Thursday. He was accused killing 11-year-old ...

Brand, 39, was charged with 17 counts, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, home ...

Brand was convicted of going to his pregnant ex-girlfriend Laterria Smith's apartment in the Edgewater neighborhood in March 2024, and stabbing her in the neck. When her son, Jayden Perkins, tried to ...

The mother of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins, who was stabbed to death protecting her from an attack by her ex-boyfriend, said ...

After a weeks-long, often disorderly trial, jurors deliberated for just an hour and 20 minutes before finding Brand guilty of ...

A verdict has been reached in the trial of Crosetti Brand, the man accused of fatally stabbing 11-year-old Jayden Perkins as ...

The trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing an 11-year-old as the boy tried to protect his pregnant mother has reached a verdict.

Brand is accused of going to his pregnant ex-girlfriend Laterria Smith's apartment in the Edgewater neighborhood in March ...

In a tense courtroom at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, prosecutors began their closing arguments to the jury in the ...

Crosetti Brand, the man charged with stabbing an 11-year-old boy to death and seriously hurting the boy's pregnant mother ...