Amanda Marrazzo

Just before attorneys were set to present opening statements Tuesday in a civil trial of the Crystal Lake parents of a man who was convicted in 2014 of sexually abusing a child, they said a settlement was reached.

As police still seek information leading to the of the driver of a white Kia Forte, the 39-year-old man struck and killed the early morning hours of May 29 in Fox Lake was identified by the McHenry County Coroner Michael Rein.

“Devil’s Income,” a roughly 30-minute, low-budget independent film shot by local filmmakers in and around Crystal Lake, Woodstock and Wonder Lake was named an Audience Choice Winner by Austin Lift-Off Film Festival.

Attorneys are seeking to have DNA re-tested from evidence tied to a decades-old murder conviction of a former Spring Grove man, a former Lake County police officer, firefighter/paramedic, citing new methods of testing not available in 1992.

After nearly a year of enduring protests, vandalism, entanglements with the village of Lake in the Hills over zoning, angry messages and social media posts and a GoFundMe that raised nearly $24,000, the owner of UpRising Bakery and Cafe shut its doors Wednesday for the last time.

Police are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the driver of a white, two- or four-door Kia Forte with damage to the front end suspected to be involved in the fatal hit and run in Fox Lake that killed a 39-year-old North Chicago man early Monday morning.

The roundabout at North Main Street and Cary-Algonquin Road in Algonquin, part of a $7.1 million project, is complete, Algonquin officials said in a news release Tuesday.

A McHenry County judge Wednesday denied a motion to reduce the bond of a man arrested last year on a Marengo complaint alleging he sexually assaulted and abused a minor, according to documents filed in the McHenry County courthouse.

A McHenry woman entered a guilty plea Wednesday to criminal conspiracy of marijuana and was sentenced to two years of probation, according to documents in the McHenry County courthouse.

A warrant was issued Tuesday for a Crystal Lake man, who was a volunteer at The Break Crystal Lake Teen Center, on charges of sexually assaulting a minor, according to court documents in the McHenry County courthouse.

A GoFundMe has been started for an Algonquin Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District firefighter/paramedic whose Crystal Lake home was deemed uninhabitable after a Monday morning blaze.

The mother of a Harvard woman whose boyfriend killed her and hid her remains in a U-Haul storage locker called her daughter’s killer “a coward” before he was sentenced to 28 years in prison Friday.

Two Poplar Grove men pleaded not guilty to stealing three vehicles, two flatscreen TVs, a Bosch Nexxt Premium washer and dryer set, one Rock River Arms AR-Style rifle, $5,000 cash, a Cook County sheriff’s deputy badge and jewelry from a Marengo home.

A 20-year-old Lake in the Hills man pleaded guilty to stabbing a family member last year in their Lake in the Hills home and was sentenced to three years in prison, which was stayed as long as he complies fully with two years of felony probation.

On Sunday, Lake County K9 Dax found two missing Crystal Lake juveniles after little more than an hour of searching.