Carolyn Starks

The Hooved Animal Humane Society will hold a silent auction this weekend to sell 21 horses recently rescued from a McHenry County farm where they were near starvation. "We want...

Linda Hanson, a volunteer with the Hooved Animal Humane Society, pulled a large red blanket over a horse's thin frame from which much of the hair was missing. Near starvation...

As soon as the General Assembly approved a plan to funnel more money to public schools, McHenry County school officials began drafting wish lists. Everything from more teachers to new,...

When a van transporting 11 prisoners across the country stopped for burgers in a southern Minnesota town, convict Homer Land apparently saw his chance for freedom, not lunch. While one...

After five months of sometimes contentious debate, the McHenry County Board finally approved a new budget Tuesday night. The spending plan has created controversy because of a series of cuts...

A three-day nationwide manhunt ended Saturday when authorities charged the man suspected of bludgeoning to death his female roommate in a home they shared in Hanover Park, police said. Mark...

A woman has been hospitalized with Legionnaires' disease, but health officials said it is not linked to an outbreak in Woodstock in August. The woman, from Chicago, first complained of...

It stands 5 feet tall, sprouting huge trumpet leaves and spiny pods. For decades, it has been mostly known as the bane of Midwestern farmers, who annually unleash a flood...

Central High School was evacuated Tuesday morning after a science teacher spilled a beaker containing a chemical with potentially noxious fumes. The chemical, quinoline, is a colorless liquid noted for...

The students looked over the list of words, all in English, but only a handful recognizable. A young woman stumbled to pronounce one word, certain that she'd never heard it...