Amanda Marrazzo

A man convicted of sexually abusing and assaulting two children over a span of 13 years while living in Island Lake and Woodstock was sentenced Friday to 126 years in prison.

A man found guilty, but mentally ill, last year of first-degree murder for causing a 2020 crash near Hebron that killed one man and left another with life-altering injuries was sentenced Thursday to 31 years in prison.

A 76-year-old Woodstock man pleaded guilty Thursday to making a false bomb threat last year in a phone call to a national real estate company and was sentenced to two years of conditional discharge and ordered to undergo an anger evaluation.

A band, made up of mostly McHenry County residents and formed in memory of a Crystal Lake man who died of an overdose, plays its first gig Saturday at The Bottom Lounge, 1375 W. Lake St. in Chicago.

A woman convicted in 2004 of reckless homicide in a Sycamore crash that killed her 20-year-old boyfriend was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to drunken driving more than a year ago in Crystal Lake.

A McHenry man is being sought on a $125,000 warrant on charges alleging he shared and possessed child pornography, according to McHenry County court records.

The lawsuit, filed by former Immigration and Custom Enforcement detainees, alleges they were threatened by McHenry County Jail employees to be put in the “hole,” “suffer serious harm” or be deported if they did not perform “janitorial labor.”

A man accused of shooting two men in a Huntley home in July – one who later died – before fleeing the country and then being captured in Pennsylvania pleaded not guilty Monday to attempted murder.

An Algonquin eye doctor who died while awaiting his murder trial instructed family members to liquidate more than $1 million in bank accounts and mutual funds, a wrongful death lawsuit alleges.

Over the last six years, Scott Uglinica, of Volo, with a 1928 Ford Model Popcorn Wagon in tow, has raised thousands of dollars to help children in need in McHenry and Lake counties.

An attorney representing the bus driver cited for traffic violations after hitting and killing a 3-year-old Cary boy last year said Thursday he still is reviewing a 24-page police report in the case.

A McHenry County gun shop is among a group of plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of Illinois’ ban on high-powered semiautomatic weapons and large capacity magazines that took effect last week.

A Woodstock man was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison after being convicted in two separate trials of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child in 2019.

A 31-year-old McHenry man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.

A McHenry man pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal Tuesday to charges alleging he sexually abused a teenager in October 2020.