Charles Mount

The McHenry County sheriff's office and the Fraternal Order of Police are scheduled to begin negotiations Wednesday on a new contract covering 90 correctional officers, about 60 sheriff's police and...

A developer's decision to drop attempts to build a $30 million garbage landfill in Lake In The Hills has sparked questions about the future costs of waste disposal in McHenry...

Narcotics agents late Wednesday arrested a man they say is a Chicago street gang member who allegedly has been selling drugs in McHenry County for about two years. Sgt. Michael...

The Illinois Pollution Control Board voted unanimously Thursday to affirm the Village Board's decision to reject a proposed 113-acre balefill. Marie Tipsord, a board attorney, said the 7-0 voice vote...

Police Lt. Keith Nygren, 47, chief of detectives, was named acting chief of police Wednesday, succeeding Sam Johns, who has retired. Nygren, who joined the Police Department in 1971, will...

Two separate head-on collisions, one near Woodstock and the other in McHenry, killed two people late Sunday and left five others injured, according to authorities. Nancy K. Brohammer, 33, of...

A team of 50 divers from 14 suburban fire departments searched until dusk Wednesday for the body of a 26-year-old man believed to have drowned in a 100-acre lake at...

A third female correctional officer at the McHenry County Jail filed suit Tuesday in federal court in Chicago charging the Sheriff's Department with sexual discrimination and harassment. Like two fellow...

A campaign by local residents to get the village's Memorial Hall listed on the National Register of Historic Places has cleared a major hurdle. The Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council...

A McHenry County judge Thursday called the weight of the evidence "massive" against an Island Lake woman accused of trying to hire an undercover state trooper to kill her live-in...