CHICAGO (AP) — Derrick Lemon was nine years old when he testified to how he tried to save his younger brother from two boys who eventually tossed him from a 14th-floor window of a shuttered high-rise.

Becky Hamber, 45, and Brandy Cooney, 43, are on trial in connection with the death of a 12-year-old boy they planned to adopt in 2022, and have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder The victim ...