Amanda Vogt

A 20-year-old Waukegan man who fled the country after being implicated in a murder case has been extradited from Puerto Rico and was being held Thursday in the Lake County...

A 24-year-old Gurnee man is free on $50,000 bond after he was charged with a hate crime for allegedly threatening a biracial couple outside a Gurnee grocery store, authorities said....

The U.S. Coast Guard called off its search Tuesday for the wreckage of an object that looked like a balloon that witnesses said crashed into Lake Michigan near the Lake...

Smoking is suspected as the cause of a weekend fire that killed a 51-year-old Wadsworth man, fire officials said Monday. Andrew Novak of the 38600 block of Pine Grove Avenue...

A 27-year-old Lake Villa man was being held in the Lake County jail Thursday in lieu of $50,000 bond after being charged with sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl 10 years...

Waukegan police are asking for the public's help to find a speeding motorist who stopped and backed his car into a group of parents and children at a Waukegan school...

A 53-year-old Lake Forest man was conscious and alert on Wednesday, more than two weeks after carbon monoxide fumes filled his home, killing his mother and her caregiver and leaving...

County officials have approved the hiring of eight new full-time jail guards in response to administrators' pleas that a rising inmate population at County Jail was prompting staffing problems. The...

A 79-year-old Wauconda man was struck by a car and killed when he stepped into the road while getting his mail, authorities said Thursday. Police said Douglas Cargill, of the...

A 23-year-old Libertyville man was killed in Mundelein over the weekend when his car struck a construction barrier and veered into several road signs before slamming into a tree, authorities...