Lake County News

Wauconda school board member Nicholas Batson was sentenced to 6 months in jail and 2 years probation Thursday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge.

Lake County health officials say they don't know the exact reason why hundreds of dead carp have been washing up on the shores of Lake Zurich.

Police in Buffalo Grove say a drag race led to the death of a 20-year-old man Wednesday afternoon.

A 61-year-old motorcyclist was in critical condition following an accident Wednesday morning in Gurnee.

The family of a murdered north suburban woman is blaming her violent death on a lack of action by Waukegan police for failed to protect her from her estranged husband, now accused of fatally stabbing her.

A convicted sex offender accused of twice violating sex offender registration rules was sentenced to two years in prison today.

Slain woman's relatives sue police, say officers failed her -- husband 'was a very real threat and they just didn't believe her' July 11, 2008 Waukegan police ignored a threat made against Adelina Weber by her ...

Bond was denied Wednesday for the Waukegan man accused of killing his estranged wife last weekend.

The man accused of murdering his wife in a hotel parking lot in north suburban Lincolnshire was convicted of attempting to kill his first wife and abducting their 8-year-old child nearly two decades ago in ...

A Waukegan man accused of fatally stabbing his wife last week, just days after she filed for divorce, was ordered held without bail in Lake County Jail on Thursday morning.

Bond was denied Thursday for the man accused of stabbing and killing his wife in a north suburban Lincolnshire parking lot, then fleeing to Northwest Indiana.

The Lake County Board voted Tuesday night to borrow up to $40 million to help pay for three major building projects.

A northern Illinois man arrested in Indiana in connection with the fatal stabbing of his wife in suburban Chicago has waived his right to an extradition hearing.

Tourists spent more than $1 billion in Lake County last year, a record high that marked a 6-percent increase over the prior year - possibly because of higher hotel occupancy rates and tax revenue, officials ...

Former College of Lake County baseball player and Warren Township High School athlete Nathan Hartman was seriously injured Friday when the Gurnee man struck his head while riding a personal watercraft on Lake ...

Barrington resident Kimberly Clare thought she had a shot at collecting the nearly $100,000 in child-support payments owed by her ex-husband. Gregorio Cardenas Gregorio Cardenas, 39, was back from Ukraine late ...

A Zion man charged with 29 counts of possession of child pornography pleaded not guilty Tuesday.

A woman is dead after a reported Saturday afternoon stabbing near a Lincolnshire resort.

Federal authorities arrested 43 immigration violators in Waukegan, Highland Park, Highwood and other cities in the Chicago metropolitan area this week.

A highly decorated Gurnee police officer accused of molesting two girls pleaded not guilty to the charges Thursday.