Crystal Lake News

Army Specialist Jason McLeod from northwest suburban Crystal Lake has been killed in Afghanistan.

The Illinois Attorney General's Office is in the midst of conducting free seminars on key changes to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act and Open Meetings Act.

CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry County College Board of Trustees are requesting more analysis of the proposed site of a new Metra station in Crystal Lake.

Lucas Iversen appeared to be like any typical 2-year-old. A healthy, happy boy who loved to wear glow-in-the-dark pajamas to bed.

A former Hurricane Katrina evacuee was ruled not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday on charges he tried to kill his live-in girlfriend because, he later told police, she had become the devil.

Agreeing that the only way to keep Daniel Munoz from getting behind the wheel drunk was to put him behind bars instead, a McHenry County judge Tuesday sentenced the the 56-year-old Crystal Lake man to 10 years in prison for what a prosecutor said were his 13th and 14th drunken driving offenses.

CRYSTAL LAKE – A 28-year-old man remained in custody Monday after police said he threw coffee in the face of a Starbucks barista during the weekend.

Judeth Svalander Dance Theatre performs to music by Maurice Ravel during the Broadway benefit concert Saturday for Judith Irwin at Raue Center for the Arts.

Emergency workers take an occupant from a Chevrolet HHR after a pursuit ended just after midnight Saturday morning in Lake in the Hills.

McHenry County Sheriff's deputies searching this week for a man wanted in Colorado on child pornography allegations found not only him in his Crystal Lake home, but also more than 13 pounds of marijuana and 78 cannabis plants growing in a crawl space, authorities said.

Damage to the Country Inn and Suites near the intersection of Pingree Road and Route 14 in Crystal Lake is seen Saturday.

WHAT: “LEADING LADIES” AND CONTEST WHEN: Friday through Nov. 22 WHERE: Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock ABOUT: TownSquare Players presentation.

A Crystal Lake man was charged with crashing his sport utility vehicle into a business and at least one other car early Saturday night, seriously injuring a 9-year-old girl and her mother.

A vote on House Democrats' version of health care reform could come as soon as this weekend.

Authorities who want to investigate the McCullom Lake brain cancer cases first will take the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention up on its offer to review previous research.

Democratic and Green candidates have filed petitions to run for two countywide offices in the 2010 election.

Kane Kellett's unusual method of raising his right hand to be sworn in earned him a six-month contempt of court sentence in McHenry County Court over the weekend.

When a McHenry County judge asked Kane E. Kellett to raise his right hand and be sworn in court Saturday morning, the Crystal Lake man raised just a finger.

A stay-at-home mom who worked part-time at her daughter's school, Kris Blum never anticipated that art would become such a passion – let alone, a career.

Indian Prairie Elementary School teacher aide Sharon Schill spends time with fourth-grader Erin Bowen reading Maggie and Max.