A nearly $7,600 grant awarded to the DeKalb Police Department by the Illinois State Police will help officers target non-compliant gun ownership in the city, said Police Chief David Byrd.

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Jill K. Konen was sworn in Friday at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Sycamore as an associate judge of the 23rd Judicial Circuit Court.

A Genoa man faces criminal charges after police said he attacked a Genoa-Kingston High School staffer outside the building, prompting a soft lockdown of the school.

Developing: DeKalb police are investigating a reported armed robbery involving a handgun that occurred Friday evening, said Police Chief David Byrd.

A former Sycamore man who lives now in Tennessee faces criminal charges after police said he sexually assaulted two children he knows multiple times between 2014 and 2017, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.

A $500,000 warrant was issued this week for a DeKalb woman charged in connection with the fatal overdose of a 39-year-old man in Marengo.

DeKalb police are investigating confirmed gunfire on the city’s north side after an incident Sunday, confirmed Police Chief David Byrd. “We have a person of interest,” Byrd said.

Two drivers were hospitalized this past weekend after a collision between two cars caused one to crash into a house in DeKalb, said Police Chief David Byrd.

DeKALB – A DeKalb man allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in an abandoned apartment on Lincoln Highway this week, before leading police on a short foot chase, police said.