Amanda Marrazzo

An Island Lake man, who admitted along with a Glenview woman to cruelly housing 46 cats in a U-Haul truck for months, began serving his 40-day jail sentence last week.

A Wisconsin man was sentenced to six years in prison for passing off a fake cashier’s check for $11,900 when buying a car in McHenry.

A man pleaded guilty and got jail and probation in the fatal overdose of a Hebron man, but the man's sister said justice wasn't done.

A Woodstock man and former McHenry County-area firefighter pleaded guilty Thursday to violating an order of protection and electronic harassment and got probation. He called and emailed threats to woman hundreds of times, authorities say.

A Woodstock man was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl, despite denying the allegations from the witness stand.

Prosecutors argued Eric Ullrich failed to act because he and his ex-wife didn't want to deal with child welfare officials again, and that their son would have lived had they acted sooner.

A former Lake in the Hills woman pleaded guilty after she was charged last year with obstructing police who were searching for couple accused of abducting their daughter.

Two men pleaded guilty last week in connection with a duffle bag filled with more than $400,000 of cocaine and fentanyl in a Super 8 Motel in McHenry last year.

A Lake in the Hills man is charged with disseminating photographs of child sex abuse and of engaging in a sex act with a dog, court records say.

Paramedic students at McHenry County College had a chance to spent time at a Woodstock care facility, Sheltered Village, to learn from experience about interacting with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

In 2022, Wilma Alex shared with the Northwest Herald her story of the abuse she said she suffered at the hands of her husband, whom she’d met on a Philippine dating site.

In just about an hour Monday, Mark Alex was found guilty of attempting to kill his wife when he hit her with a hatchet and hammer in her Crystal Lake apartment in 2022.

A Ringwood man who pleaded guilty in March to aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a girl he met on Snapchat turned himself into the county jail Thursday to begin his five-year prison sentence.

The state has rested in the trial for a man who admits he struck her with a hammer and hatchet in her Crystal Lake apartment, but denies he was trying to kill her.

Walter Moist, who ran for Crystal Lake-based District 155 school board this week, was charged with violating an order of protection taken out against him, court records show.