A 47-year-old Crystal Lake man was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography, court records show.

A Marengo man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges alleging he killed his girlfriend in late 2020 and hid her remains in a U-Haul storage unit in Roscoe.

A Woodstock man took a plea deal Wednesday, pleading guilty to drunken driving during a May 2021 crash in which he hit the Woodstock Ford Mart, injuring a woman inside.

A warrant has been issued for a McHenry man accused of sexually abusing a teenager while in a position of authority, according to Crystal Lake police and court records.

A former McHenry County woman, described as a “monster” Monday by prosecutors and her victim’s family members, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the “barbaric” killing of a 23-year-old Harvard woman.

Confessions involving ongoing, repetitive or harmful behavior to other people, such as murder or child abuse, are reported to the police, one Fox River Grove pastor said.

A McHenry County attorney this week argued before federal appellate judges that the state law that emptied the county’s jail of immigration detainees was unconstitutional and should be overturned.

A 75-year-old Woodstock man is being held in the McHenry County jail on $50,000 bond charged with making a false bomb threat by phone to a national real estate company, court records show.

A McHenry County grand jury indicted these people on the following charges.