McHenry County News

Three people were sent to the hospital following a two-vehicle accident in Riley Township, south of Marengo, according to the McHenry County Sheriff's Office.

WOODSTOCK – Elected leaders have started a campaign to ask state lawmakers to allocate $4.7 million toward improving the southern intersection of Routes 47 and 176.

A Milwaukee man wanted on warrant for sexually abusing and choking a juvenile girl was apprehended Wednesday.

George Dopke was injured when his house on East Crystral Lake Avenue collapsed. Dopke spent three weeks in a hospital and recovered from his injuries.

Authorities in McHenry County have warned residents about a housing scam that tricks would-be renters into sending money to rent a place that's not even on the market.

CRYSTAL LAKE – An even split did not come across as an even compromise for Crystal Lake City Council members looking to McHenry County officials to help fund beautifying efforts on the concrete wall along Walkup Road.

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A man wanted by the sheriff's offices in McHenry, Kane and Cook counties has been arrested, according to a news release.

A 28-year-old Woodstock man was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday in the May 2011 shooting death of a former court security officer and Island Lake bar owner.

Annie Detwiler, 11, shoots a basketball Monday as she plays a game of H-O-R-S-E with her older sister, Grace , 13, and her parents, Mark and Kate, at the family's home in Woodstock.

WOODSTOCK – McHenry County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill will not pursue a vote tonight to replace a member of the Public Health and Human Services Committee.

It's a long story as to how my mother wound up below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it makes for a pleasant change of scenery for someone more accustomed to cornfields and sprawling suburbia than red clay soil and tree-covered mountains.

On the heels of Monday's disastrous tornado that killed dozens and injured more than a hundred people in Oklahoma, McHenry County officials gave tips for area residents to be better prepared when disaster strikes.

A 14-year-old Lake in the Hills boy was charged with unlawful delivery of cannabis on school grounds, police said.

Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

McHENRY – The major traffic delays caused by the widening of Charles J. Miller Road are pretty much at an end, an engineer for the project said.

A McHenry man faces federal charges after threatening to kill the U.S. ambassador to Serbia over a visa dispute involving his wife, U.S. Justice Department officials said.

WOODSTOCK – The alleged victim in a sex abuse case against his one-time youth mentor said the man was sexually aroused when he pulled down the boy's pants and spanked him.

McHenry County and several other counties in Illinois are under a severe thunderstorm watch until 3 a.m. The following counties are included in the watch, according to the National Weather Service : McHenry, Kane, Lake, Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Jo Daviess, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, Lee, ... (more)

CRYSTAL LAKE – In this quiet Crystal Lake subdivision it's not uncommon to find people walking their dogs, cats playing in the yard, or wild rabbits running through front lawns.