Emily K. Coleman

A 39-year-old Fox River Grove man was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to enticing a child to create a pornographic image.

Col. Patty Klop, of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, will be the first female keynote speaker at the Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony in Crystal Lake later this month.

Two Poplar Grove men charged with residential burglary are accused stealing a Cook County sheriff’s deputy badge, an AR-style rifle and $5,000 in cash in addition to three vehicles from a Marengo-area home, court records show.

A Vernon Hills man accused going on a “shopping spree” in Crystal Lake using a wallet stolen from a shopping cart was sentenced Thursday to two years of felony probation, McHenry County court records show.

A Zion man tied to a string of burglaries in Crystal Lake, McHenry and Woodstock was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison.

A Cary man accused of possessing more than $65,000 worth of drugs in 2019 pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder medication with the intent to deliver, court records show.

A 19-year-old Lake in the Hills man accused of torturing a raccoon with another teenager pleaded guilty Wednesday to recording the animal being impaled and struck repeatedly, court records show.

A Crystal Lake man and an Algonquin teenager face new charges alleging they broke into – or tried to – six vehicles and one home during a night in late March, court records show.

A 24-year-old Belvidere man accused of firing a gun in June 2022 at a vehicle with two children in it and striking a man with a metal baseball bat in March is being held without bond in the McHenry County Jail, court records show.

A 20-year-old McHenry man was charged Tuesday with kidnapping and grooming a child under 13, McHenry County court records show.

Two men were “seriously injured” in a crash Wednesday outside Woodstock that left the vehicle in flames, the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District said.

Work on a natural gas transmission pipeline in the Richmond area led to about a dozen calls reporting possible gas leaks, as well as the evacuation of Richmond Grade School, a Nicor Gas spokesperson said.

Two 19-year-olds were accused of having two defaced handguns and three large-capacity magazines, including a 50-round drum, following a police raid on a Lake in the Hills home, McHenry County court records shows.

Snow greeted northern Illinois residents as they woke up Monday morning, but spring temperatures – and storms – are on track to return later this week.

McHenry County Judge James Cowlin sentenced a Woodstock man to six and a half years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty in February to his fifth drunken-driving offense, court records show.