Law enforcement agencies in Lake and McHenry counties and across the U.S. are remaining vigilant and actively monitoring for threats amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

A Fox Lake man has been charged with the murder of a Fox Lake woman who was found stabbed to death next to a dumpster at a hotel in Cook County Wednesday, police announced.

Prosecutors say a man told a child, whom he solicited on Snapchat, "you earned yourself some food," and took her to eat after he sexually abused her in the parking lot of a store in Algonquin.

Two residents were left homeless after smoking materials caused a fire on a deck that spread to a house in Wauconda Thursday evening, fire officials said.

A man has been sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to ...

The coroner has released the identity of a 50-year-old Waukegan mother and grandmother who was fatally struck by a hit-and-run vehicle in Winthrop Harbor Thursday as her family offers a reward.

Four residents and a dog were left displaced after a fire damaged a garage and spread to two houses, leaving both uninhabitable, in Holiday Hills Friday afternoon.

Police say they recovered a stolen vehicle and arrested the driver after finding him in possession of a "significant amount" of methamphetamine in Huntley Wednesday afternoon.

A judge ordered a man released from custody after he was arrested for possessing ammunition without a FOID card, which prompted a SWAT response and shelter-in-place order in Lake in the Hills Thursday ...

A 21-year-old woman died after she and a second person, who was flown to the hospital, were critically injured in a crash with a semi-truck on Interstate 90 in Huntley Thursday morning.

A former Lake in the Hills woman has been charged with threatening to harm the McHenry County state's attorney, saying she would drag her by her hair and was coming for her, while also threatening a ...

The coroner has released the identities of a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s who both died when their car collided head-on into a semi-truck on Route 173 in Wadsworth Thursday.