Lake in the Hills News

A coalition of firefighter organizations will hold a golf outing to raise funds for one of its members who was recently diagnosed with kidney cancer.

A Jackson County man turned himself in Thursday morning to face multiple charges related to an alleged domestic incident on his 40th birthday Wednesday evening.

Educators in Huntley Unit District 158 got an earful from parents Thursday on what's working - and what's not - in the district's special education program.

The Smoking Popes return to their Northwest-suburban roots - the Caterer brothers are from Lake in the Hills - as the closing act for this year's Lakeside Festival in Crystal Lake on Sunday night, July 5. Eve 6, another hit group from the '90s enjoying a second run, is the headline act on Saturday, July 4. The Lakeside Festival takes place daily ...

A family who moved into Lake in the Hills a month ago say they may leave the northwestern Chicago suburb if they are not allowed to keep their pet ring-tailed lemur.

LAKE IN THE HILLS – A 51-year-old man is facing multiple felony charges after authorities seized more than $150,000 in marijuana from his home.

Ringo, 5, eats fruit in the backyard of Troy Evert's home in Lake in the Hills. Lemurs are native to Madagascar and while a member of the primate family, they are not monkeys.

McHenry County's job market officially became the worst in more than a quarter-century. The Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday that McHenry County's unemployment rate rose to 10.5 percent in May, up from 9.8 percent in April.

LAKE IN THE HILLS – A house fire Wednesday night claimed the life of a cat and left a home uninhabitable.

Former Rolling Meadows firefighter Donald Naughton received a four-year jail sentence Tuesday after pleading guilty to criminal sexual assault and official misconduct.

ALGONQUIN – One person was taken to a local hospital after a four-car crash Sunday on Randall Road.

An Illinois man faces multiple new charges in addition to multiple federal charges of using a biological agent as a weapon.

Several waves of severe weather with lightning and wind gusts are expected to hit the state Friday.

A northwest suburban man pleaded not guilty Thursday for a second time to purchasing a deadly puffer fish toxin as part of a plot to kill his wife.

The federal government now says a 36-year-old Lake in the Hills man - accused of possessing vials of deadly pufferfish toxin - intended to kill his wife.

Jim Mertz, of the Lake in the Hills American Legion, shows how easy it can be to cut out a five-point star by folding it first during a presentation on the history of the American flag at the Crystal Lake Library.

State legislators are familiar with the annual problem of having their member initiative earmarks for the next fiscal year held up.

Edward Bachner told FBI agents he planned to do research, or kill himself if his life didn't get better, with vials of the deadly puffer fish toxin he stands accused of obtaining illegally for use as a weapon, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed this week.

LAKE IN THE HILLS – Court documents filed this week detail what a Lake in the Hills man told investigators about why he ordered a lethal toxin with no known antidote.

When James Miranda lost his job as a senior financial executive, he could have done as many of the jobless do: send out resumes and wait for the phone to ring.