Kane County News

Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti is trying a new tack to put some teeth in his no-refusal DUI crackdowns.

Simply breathing the air in Kane County is not likely to make you sick. But a new report released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicates that breathing the local air is likely just as hazardous to your health as most other places in America.

Solving child murders is not a clean business. The public demands prosecution when little boys are killed in their sleep.

More than 260 pounds of marijuana and several pounds of cocaine have been taken off Aurora streets in the last six weeks, authorities announced Thursday.

A 51-year-old St. Charles man was behind bars Thursday on charges he bit a woman during a custody dispute over a dog, police said.

Christopher Stribling, 30, of the 1200 block of Solfisburg Avenue, Aurora, was charged with felony aggravated battery as well as misdemeanor domestic battery and possession of marijuana after police were called to his home at 9 p.m. Monday, the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said.

The Kane County State's Attorney will collaborate with local police this holiday weekend to hold accountable those suspected drunken drivers who try to avoid prosecution by refusing to submit to a lawfully requested BAC test.

BATAVIA – Jody Lay is still hopeful that she will find her 9-year-old declawed gray domestic shorthair cat, Linus, who has been missing since May 28.

Every plant has a story, according to Valerie Blaine, a naturalist with the Forest Preserve District of Kane County.

Police in Batavia say they haven't decided yet whether to charge a 45-year-old woman accused of abducting her neighbor's cat and abandoning it in rural Kane County.

CAMPTON HILLS – A man police sought in connection with a fatal motorcycle accident has surrendered, officials said.

Jun 25, 2009 2:30 pm US/Central ST. CHARLES, Ill. A west suburban carnival worker was sentenced to 29 years in prison Thursday for stabbing a 28-year-old man to death after the two got into an argument.

The Kane County Health Department said Wednesday two bats found in the northern part of the county have tested positive for rabies.One was found in Elgin and the other in Dundee.

In his third attempt at a trial in Kane County, a North Aurora man was convicted Wednesday of charges he tried to suffocate his wife with a plastic bag.

How did a grenade end up in an otherwise unspectacular home in a quiet neighborhood on the far West Side of Aurora? Neighbors and police were still trying to figure that out Monday evening after a hand grenade was discovered in the home of woman who died in May.

Kane County has to start thinking about job creation and making itself more competitive in commercial and industrial development projects, according to the county's top economic development official.

The lone ticket coming out of an accident that led to the deaths of two motorcyclists last month has been excused in hopes of possibly attaching a stiffer penalty.

On-air talent Matt Mellen broadcasts from the studio of WERV, The River 95.9 FM, in Aurora Friday afternoon.

Citing the possibility of double jeopardy in the case, the Kane County state's attorney's office has asked the court to dismiss a traffic charge against a motorist involved in a May fatal crash on Route 47 near Elburn.

If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison by Martha Quetsch ELBURN - Mark L. Burger of Elburn pleaded not guilty June 10 to several drug-related charges, including illegally storing a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school.