Amanda Marrazzo

Questions remain over whether the elimination of cash bail in the SAFE-T Act will make McHenry County more or less safe, but the new law does not mean jail gates will swing open and alleged murderers and rapists will walk out as opponents of the law insist, legal experts say.

A Union man accused in four separate criminal felony cases of ‘peeping’ through the windows of unsuspecting women in Woodstock — charges for which he has previously been convicted — will be under strict conditions should he bond out of the McHenry County jail, a judge said.

A 62-year-old Wonder Lake man is accused of possessing multiple pornographic images of a child under the age of 13, according to documents in the McHenry County courthouse.

A 31-year-old Wisconsin man, arrested Tuesday on a $50,000 warrant, is accused of sexually abusing a Marengo child over the course of eight years, McHenry County court records show.

McHenry County doctors have seen an increased number of toddlers and babies sick with upper respiratory illnesses, which typically peak in the winter but have also been appearing months earlier than normal.

A 32-year-old Woodstock man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges alleging as a convicted felon, he possessed large amounts of cocaine, more than 5,000 grams of marijuana, a handgun and several rounds of ammunition, court records show.

A 36-year-old man charged with drug-induced homicide in connection to the 2021 death of a man in Lake in the Hills is being held in the McHenry County jail on $500,000 bond, according to the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office and court documents.

Prosecutors allege that the woman told others that the 39-year-old Marengo man thought he was getting cocaine, but she gave him heroin and fentanyl instead, without him knowing. He later died.

The Cary Village Board voted Tuesday to make food trucks a regular feature on its downtown streets following a trial run this summer with the Brothers’ BBQ food truck.

A 37-year old Waukegan man accused of selling a fatal dose of heroin to a 32-year-old Algonquin man is being held on a $300,000 bond in the McHenry County jail.

A 35-year-old Chicago man was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for shooting at the vehicle of a woman he knows parked outside her Woodstock home in 2021.

The Cary Village Board has approved an ordinance granting conditional use for a $3 million indoor gun range for the McHenry County Joint Firing Range.

The Cary Village Board unanimously accepted Tuesday the one-and-only bid submitted for redevelopment of the former Kraus Senior Center and its surrounding property.

A 21-year-old McHenry man accused of beating and torturing two cats named Winky and Dipsy, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a McHenry County courtroom.

The death of Heather Buelow's son to suicide is why she’ll be taking part in Saturday’s inaugural Never Walk Alone 5K for suicide awareness and prevention in Crystal Lake: “The walk is important ...(because) there are people who understand what you are going through."