Barbara Sherlock

Authorities on Monday were searching for a short, heavy white man in his 40s with brown hair who allegedly sexually assaulted a 9-year-old girl Saturday as she was walking near...

A St. Charles detective has testified before a Kane County coroner that an 18-year-old woman was stabbed to death apparently after she resisted the sexual advances of the man who...

The community is invited to share its comments at 7 p.m. May 17 about the St. Charles Police Department as part of the department's voluntary process for recognition by the...

The deadline is April 16 for artists to submit slide entries for the national juried art exhibition of the St. Charles Art and Music Festival. The 16-day festival proposes a...

For more than three decades, the Valley Sheltered Workshop, at 325 Main St., has provided employment for developmentally disabled adults. Every year the workshop is funded in part by a...

A Kane County judge this week granted a 21-day extension to St. Charles Deputy Police Chief Don Thomas for filing an amendment to his lawsuit against the city, while both...

It's a keeper. The Batavia City Council voted recently to scratch the sunset clause in its year-old design-review ordinance and allow the regulation to continue as a permanent part of...

Two invitations are being extended to residents to help raise funds this month for the Easter Seals Rehabilitation Centers. The ninth annual Band Day event, with performances by seven musical...

Jim Benson, a senior member of the Batavia Fire Department, recently was applauded for his 30 years of service as a paid-on-call firefighter, the last 15 years as an engineer...

It was a little delayed, but the January promotion of Batavia Police Patrol Officer Pete Tyo to sergeant received public recognition Monday as Mayor Jeff Schielke administered the oath of...