Linda Young

Two teens, whose escape from the Kane County Youth Home on Memorial Day triggered an hours-long manhunt, have been sentenced to a state juvenile prison. Kane County Judge Donald Hudson...

A 16-year-old Aurora youth who is awaiting trial on a murder charge is facing additional charges after his escape last month from the Kane County Youth Home. Larry A. Davis,...

Expecting a large-and perhaps vocal-turnout for Monday's public hearing on potential landfill locations in the county's western townships, the County Board-appointed public siting advisory committee has moved the meeting to...

The irony of Irv Lewandowski's death last November probably did not go unnoticed by his two close friends, Jack Rodgers and Robert Knoll. The three of them loved airplanes so...

A Kane County judge Tuesday found 26-year-old Shaun Judge guilty of murder in the 1993 shooting of his pregnant ex-girlfriend. After a weeklong bench trial, Judge Melvin E. Dunn rejected...

Coroner Mary Lou Kearns was honored with an outstanding elected official leadership award last month by Illinois Democratic Women. The group cited Kearns as the party's only countywide office-holder in...

For the first time this summer, visitors to the county's forest preserves can recycle bottles and cans almost as easily as they do in their own homes. With the aid...

Absentee voting in Kane and DeKalb Counties has begun in advance of a nearly $800,000 emergency referendum in Kaneland School District 302 that would repair and reopen the district's condemned...

A Marine from St. Charles has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1993 murder of a fellow Marine, following a monthlong court martial at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Lance...

Four months after it was found in a watery pit at an abandoned factory in Aurora, the body of a 27-year-old man has been identified and returned to the man's...