Amanda Vogt

A Libertyville teenager died Tuesday of injuries he suffered in a two-car collision near Antioch over the weekend, officials said. Nicholas A. Sassin, 18, of the 200 block of East...

The marine unit of the Lake County sheriff's office will begin patrolling the county's waterways May 5, when the boating season begins, officials said. Staffed by two full-time command officers,...

Telesforo Quiroz, 18, of North Chicago, died Tuesday in St. Therese Medical Center in Waukegan of injuries he suffered in an April 2 auto accident, according to Lake County Deputy...

A 23-year-old McHenry County man was killed Monday night when his car was struck on the passenger side by a semi-tractor truck in unincorporated Wauconda, officials said. Rylee W. Pinkston,...

Citing self-defense, authorities may decline to bring charges against the alleged gunman in the weekend shooting death of a 20-year-old Milwaukee man in Waukegan, officials said. Esteban Lopez was shot...

A Lake County judge on Monday sentenced an exotic dancer and a club hostess employed by an adult club near Wadsworth each to a year's probation for prostitution, officials said....

A Lake County grand jury Wednesday charged a Zion man with reckless homicide because the boy he injured in a 1996 car accident died after being paralyzed and brain dead...

The Village of Round Lake Beach will have new governing powers, thanks to the 2000 census figures. Under Illinois law, any municipality with more than 25,000 people acquires home-rule authority,...

Police have arrested three people, including a 15-year-old Winthrop Harbor girl, in connection with a series of residential burglaries in Winthrop Harbor and Pleasant Prairie, Wis., authorities said. Donald E....

Six Waukegan males, including two juveniles, were charged Thursday in connection with a gang-related shooting outside a Waukegan home, authorities said. Freddy Garcia, 17, of the 2200 block of Seminole...