A Northbrook man accused of traveling to meet a 15-year-old girl he met on Snapchat and sexually abusing her in his car near Wonder Lake in exchange for nicotine and a phone pleaded guilty Wednesday to grooming.

A Dundee Township resident was charged July 9 with three counts of disseminating videos depicting images of child sexual abuse, authorities said.

Honey and Louie are comfort and therapy dogs at the McHenry County courthouse. Now they've officially been sworn in for service.

A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to punching and kicking a woman during an altercation in a Woodstock home and was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.

The McHenry County Sheriff's Office has released body-worn camera footage from an April 10 officer-involved shooting in Crystal Lake, and the officers involved have been cleared.

A 64-year-old man thought he was arranging to meet a 16-year-old girl in Harvard for sex but found he was actually communicating with an undercover detective, prosecutors said.

A McHenry man was acquitted of charges that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in McCullom Lake. The not-guilty verdict came after the girl testified that he forced himself on her.

A Lake in the Hills man who was convicted of defrauding the state out of more than $3 million in sales taxes from Denny's restaurants he owned is asking the court to seal related documents.

McHenry man has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual assault of a minor and, in addition to prison, must register as a sex offender.

A man residing in a Wonder Lake home in 2023 where illicit drugs and stolen license plates were found pleaded guilty Monday to possessing methamphetamine.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the robbery of a Marengo gas station where an employee was shot. He will serve the time concurrent with a Kane County robbery sentence.

Dozens of dogs, including litters of puppies, were removed from a Wauconda home and turned over to area rescues, and the homeowner was charged with animal cruelty, police said.

A former Island Lake man has pleaded guiltyto possessing LSD, and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

An Island Lake man is accused of possessing thousands of videos of child sex abuse.

Hilary Agnello, a Crystal Lake South dean and former Prairie Ridge volleyball coach, now faces for serous charges of aggravated DUI in a crash in May that caused a serious injury, court records show.