Charles Mount

Anita Sherwood, the 67-year-old Nunda Township supervisor and lifelong Republican who is bucking the Republican Party over its support of County Board member Kathleen Harper, has tapped Nunda Township Trustee...

Campaign finance reports filed Monday show Republican Gov. Jim Edgar opening a huge lead on Democratic challenger Dawn Clark Netsch in raising funds for the fall election. Edgar has amassed...

Bill Maire was a 22-year veteran of running Marine Corps jails and collecting deserters when he took over as head of the McHenry County Jail in January. He didn't expect...

A car salesman was indicted by a McHenry County grand jury this week on a first-degree murder charge in the July 16 shooting death in a boarding house. Mark A....

Associate McHenry County Circuit Judge Frank Rhode is on a hot streak, off the bench at least. First, there was his ticket for Friday's drawing of the Illinois Little Lotto...

A fight late Sunday between motorcyclists in the Fitter Inn, 620 W. Rand Rd., turned ugly when one group made a strategic retreat and went home for their chainsaws, authorities...

A maintenance man on his way to work was killed early Thursday when his pickup truck crossed the center line and collided head-on with a semitractor trailer on Illinois Highway...

A car salesman was being held in the McHenry County Jail on $1 million bond Monday in the fatal shooting of another man in a Woodstock boarding house. Mark A....

A Wisconsin man with a history of sex crimes was being held in the McHenry County Jail Wednesday after three fondling and exposure incidents involving young girls in Cary late...

Ralph M. Hersick, 37, of 6109 N. State Park Rd., in unincorporated Spring Grove, was killed late Saturday while walking west on U.S. Highway 12 west of State Park Road,...