A Cook County judge found five people guilty of vandalism Thursday for their roles in chalk-writing slogans supporting abortion rights outside the Arlington Heights post office last month ...

Police reportedly fired bean bag guns or rubber bullets at the crowd and made several arrests for vandalism — a crime that apparently includes writing on the sidewalk with chalk.

Four protesters who were jailed for writing anti-police graffiti in chalk on a temporary barricade near a Seattle police precinct have been awarded nearly $700,000 after a federal court jury decided ...