St. Charles News

A 21-year veteran of the Elgin Police Department will be promoted to deputy chief in early June, filling a position that has been vacant since mid-March. Cmdr.

ST. CHARLES – The 28-year-old Sycamore man accused of having heroin in his system during the crash that killed 11-year-old Matthew Ranken is asking a judge to reduce his $250,000 bond.

A brazen shoplifter made off with 33 PlayStation 3 games valued at $697.33 over the course of two visits on two days last week at a local big-box retailer.

Imagine waking up early in the morning to get ready for work only to discover that while your spouse and three young children slept, someone had crept into your home without waking anyone and made off with a laptop and a mobile tablet.

IDIAI Annual 51st Educational Conference will be held May 20th & 21st, 2013. Illinois Division International Association for Identification will be held at Pheasant Run Resort 4051 E Main street , St.

This week: How much do lawn services cost? How much do you pay for your lawn service in Geneva, Batavia and St.

National average gasoline prices rose 4.9 cents per gallon over the past week and are up 6.2 cents per gallon of regular gasoline from a month ago.

He was also arrested on a Kane County warrant on a charge of retail theft but was released on $2,500 bond.

Allyson Schmutter, spokeswoman for the national nonprofit Alliance to Save Energy , offers these five tips for saving energy and money: 1. Unplug All Those Devices: Believe it or not, many devices still consume energy even when turned off.

"Forgotten they never could be Forgotten they never should be Thought they never would be Killed in the line of duty" - Lt.

If you were at Monday night's St. Charles City Council Planning and Development Committee meeting and wanted to voice your opinion about the draft 2013 Comprehensive Plan, don't worry - city officials say you will get your chance.

During a week in which the nation honors it peace officers and remembers those who put their lives on the line to protect and serve their communities, members of the St.

Money isn't everything, but for a two-household couple with homes in St. Charles and Byron, it will help them move up the date for the marriage they already were planning.

St. Charles and Campton Hills police are reminding motorists not to drink and drive, and are reminding drivers and passengers as well they can be ticketed if they drive without using their seat belts.

"Olympic Rain Forest" is a work by St. Charles fine art photographer John Rydin.

A divided St. Charles Community Unit School District 303 Board of Education on Monday night flatly rejected an agreement with the city for installing traffic lights and a deceleration lane along Red Gate Road at the entrance to St.

ST. CHARLES – The 11th annual Tyler Brett Caruso Memorial Concert is set from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at Lincoln Park, which is at Fourth Street and Main Street, St.

A new business expecting to generate $18.5 million of sales in its first five years in St.

As tens of thousands of law enforcement officers and their families converge this week on Washington, D.C., in observance of National Police Week 2013, May 12 through May 18, local observances are being planned as well up and down the Fox Valley.

An unspecified reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a man who reportedly battered a woman jogging along a bike path in a South Side St.