Authorities from three local agencies recovered 18 dogs in Pembroke Township Friday. The dogs are believed to have been associated with an alleged dog-fighting ring.

A former Northern Illinois University student accused in connection with a 2024 reported sexual assault at a fraternity house has been found not guilty, court records show.

The Sterling Police Department made 53 arrests for drug and narcotic violations in 2025, compared to 58 in 2024, according to Sterling Police Chief Pat Bartel.

A man has been accused of running over his wife with a car in Oakwood Hills and severely injuring her Friday evening.

A Sugar Grove man pleaded guilty to a hit-and-run that killed a 69-year-old Sugar Grove woman out walking her dog in 2024.

A Kankakee man was charged by the Kankakee County State’s Attorney’s Office with criminal trespass to a residence when a person is present and battery following an alleged incident that occurred Monday in Herscher.

A jury trial expected to begin this week for a former DeKalb middle school student teacher accused of grooming and sexually abusing a student has been delayed again, court records show.

Two Woodstock 18-year-olds face felony charges after they were accused of holding a 13-year-old boy at knifepoint and demanding his bike and cellphone, according to authorities.

While the Sterling Police Department‘s calls for service were up in 2025 when compared with the prior year, its police chief said criminal activity has lessened.

A Kankakee County jury found a Texas man guilty of second-degree murder in a 2021 shooting in Bradley that left one man dead and two others injured.

A Lee County judge issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for a Downers Grove man accused of felony charges related to vehicle theft.

Hours after he was released on a first DUI charge, a northern Illinois man was arrested on charges of driving a motorcycle under the influence of alcohol near the DeKalb County Jail in downtown Sycamore, court records show.

The Fox Lake Police Department has arrested and charged a Fox Lake man following an investigation into the reported sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.

A pregnant ER nurse was kicked by a patient. Prosecutors, hospitals and nurses say violence has become routine – and convictions remain rare

A Marengo woman who was sentenced to prison time weeks ago for her 5th DUI got a new sentence for her 6th DUI.

Raymond Link's public defender doesn't deny he committed a "horrific," near-fatal attack on a woman in a McHenry park. But the defense wants a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict.

A DuPage County jail officer has been accused of possessing child sex abuse images

Workplace violence against nurses is rising – and hospitals are scrambling to respond, according to northern Illinois healthcare workers and hospital leadership.

A man accused of “randomly” stabbing another eight times outside a McHenry hotel will remain in county jail pretrial, a judge ruled Tuesday.

A Crystal Lake man accused of possessing more than $250,000 in cocaine and marijuana, along with $110,000 in cash and drug dealing paraphernalia, has pleaded guilty.

A McHenry man has pleaded guilty to disseminating child sex abuse images and was sentenced to six years in prison.

The 13-year-old victim “remains in stable but critical condition following surgery,“ Joliet police officials said.

In front of the family of Gary and Holly Schmidt, who were found killed in their home in September 2025, their son, the man authorities allege is responsible, was found unfit to stand trial on Monday.

A Crystal Lake man accused of soliciting improper images from a child in New Jersey and another in Massachusetts pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to six years in prison.

A Sterling man has been charged with armed violence, weapons and drug offenses, accused of unlawfully carrying a gun while walking on a Sterling city street while toting a large amount of fentanyl.

Nestor Ramirez Sr., 50, of Lake in the Hills was charged with a felony count of reckless discharge of a firearm after police responded to a domestic incident Saturday.

McHenry man accused of stabbing at area motel early Saturday morning

Each count is punishable by up to 15 years in federal prison.

Two men suffering gunshot wounds in Aurora were transported to local hospitals in incidents the police say “are related.”

A Sandwich 18-year-old, formerly from Downers Grove, is facing criminal charges after police said they found about 140 files depicting child sexual abuse on his cellphone after an investigation this month

Joliet police are investigating a shooting which took place Friday morning in the 600 block of Mills Road.

An Elgin man was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to failing to report a July crash he caused that injured another driver, and fleeing from Cary police in Crystal Lake.

Jury selection begins Monday for a civil trial to determine if a Sycamore man is fit to face first-degree murder charges in the 2025 violent killings of his parents, Holly S. Schmidt and Gary A. Schmidt. The man on Wednesday told the judge he wants to represent himself

A Woodstock man has been accused of driving drunk for a sixth time – in this case with an infant in tow – and allegedly told police who stopped that him he was “wasted.”

A Batavia woman has been charged following a police investigation into a February crash that killed a Batavia man. The woman is charged with speeding and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

A judge on June 30 could change her decision granting a new trial for a woman serving a life sentence for the 2013 Joliet murders known as “Nightmare on Hickory Street.”

A judge allowed the jail release of a Romeoville woman charged with recklessly firing a gun in the direction of another woman near a Joliet bar.

A Sterling man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for attempting to traffic methamphetamine from California to Illinois.

An Elgin man arrested in Woodstock last year and found in possession of more than 32 grams of cocaine has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Joliet police reported that officers found the victim in the front yard of a residence in the 200 block of Nicholson Street.

A local longtime historian who’s given presentations throughout the state, including in McHenry County, has pleaded guilty to possessing an image of child sex abuse, according to court records.

An Aurora man has been charged with possession of child sexual abuse material and failure to register as a sex offender. He's been previously convicted of child sex abuse material offenses in Kentucky, authorities said.

The person accused in the Tuesday shooting in Kankakee that left one man dead and the other with a non-life-threatening injury was ordered detained by a Kankakee County Circuit judge.

Joshua Anderson pleaded not guilty to all the charges and maintained throughout numerous court hearings that he had a medical marijuana card and was only growing the plants for his own use.

A Joliet Township man in prison for first-degree murder is seeking a lighter sentence under a lesser offense, which his brother received even though prosecutors said he was the one who killed the victim with a baseball bat.

After a four-day trial, a DeKalb woman was found guilty on Thursday of a years-long embezzlement scheme, stealing more than $1.9 million from her employer, Cole Pallet Services

Update: A man was charged Friday in a Thursday night shooting in DeKalb that authorities said left another man injured during an attempted armed robbery.

Caleb Gill was taken into custody in Bristol in Kendall County on Thursday by the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office and the U. S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force,

A Bolingbrook man has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison for drug-induced homicide in Aurora. The man sold fentanyl pills to an Aurora man who died after ingesting one pill.

After about four hours of deliberating, a McHenry County jury found an Elgin man guilty of drug-induced homicide in the fentanyl overdose of a man at a Marengo motel.