Charles Mount

The appearance of Elgin-area Unit School District 46 on the state's financial watch list Wednesday was viewed by school officials as further proof of the need to pass a $172.8...

A temporary clerk pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing bond money from McHenry County traffic tickets and was sentenced to one year of probation and fined $500. Judge Sharon Prather of...

A former fence builder from Crystal Lake got the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison Monday for the aggravated criminal sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl. Charles Flowers, 54,...

A construction worker was indicted on a count of first-degree murder Wednesday in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old Crystal Lake Central High School cheerleader in Burtons Bridge. State's Atty....

A 50-year-old former top corrections officer for the Marine Corps took on a new challenge Monday when he became the administrator of the McHenry County Jail. William Maire, of Lake...

Sgt. Joseph Marvin, who has run the Woodstock police department for almost a year while its former police chief has been embroiled in an illegal eavesdropping controversy, was named permanent...

A 21-year-old Harvard man pleaded guilty Wednesday to being drunk while driving a car last August when his brother was killed after the vehicle ran a stop sign and hit...

A 22-year-old Wauconda man has been indicted by a McHenry County grand jury on charges of child abuse in connection with the beating of his girlfriend's baby in Woodstock, State's...

The Crystal Lake Library Board has voted to bid on a local office building at a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. auction to be held Wednesday in Boston. Board President James...

The City Council decided in closed session late Tuesday to keep its police chief and his top aide on paid administrative leave even though a McHenry County judge has tossed...