Carolyn Starks

Samantha Jackson has been in and out of trouble since she was 10 years old, running away from home and staying out all night, her mother said. But the incident...

The owner of the financially strapped Partner's retail chain said he is trying to work out an agreement with his store's chief creditor before both sides head into court Friday....

Only properly registered voters for Algonquin Township, Nunda Township, Crystal Lake, Woodstock and Cary School District 26 may vote in the Feb. 25 consolidated primary election. Registered voters who have...

As winter settles in, snowmobilers across the Chicago area turn their eyes skyward, looking forward to the season's first heavy snowfall. Police and firefighters take a dimmer view, expecting that...

With a line of police officers waiting to shake his hand, John Richardson on Saturday began his first day as commander of the troubled Austin District, promising to rid it...

A lawsuit filed by Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan against a Crystal Lake car dealership is scheduled to be heard Monday in Circuit Court of McHenry County. Ryan's office filed suit...

The bells of St. Mary and more than 200 other churches tolled for the cardinal Friday morning in a simultaneous expression of mourning and reassurance. When the services were planned...

Five-year-old Blake Williams carefully steadied a blue crayon in between his fingers like a surgeon manipulating a scalpel. First he outlined the detailed, two-door car that he had drawn, then...

Supporters of school expansion in Woodstock School District 200 went to the polls Tuesday hoping that seven would be their lucky number. It was the district's seventh attempt in six...

Rafael Guzman has no memory of what happened when a speeding commuter train slammed into his school bus in Fox River Grove last year. Yet there are constant reminders: They...