Charles Mount

Veteran Woodstock attorney Michael Caldwell was sworn in Thursday as an associate judge in McHenry County Circuit Court and will take the bench Friday, presiding over Bond Court. Caldwell, 58,...

A former Crystal Lake junior high school gym teacher who is accused of having a sexual relationship with an 8th-grade student remained in jail Wednesday despite a halving of his...

McHenry County Board member Michael Brown, 56, of Crystal Lake, was sworn in Monday as state representative from the 63rd District, succeeding the retired Ann Hughes of unincorporated Woodstock to...

Tina Thornrose, the former Lake in the Hills village president who was ousted from office last year, will go on trial before a McHenry County jury on July 14 on...

An 11-year-old Wonder Lake boy who is accused of joining his 8-year-old cousin in a vandalism spree was made a ward of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services...

In his own defense, a tearful father testified Friday that he frantically patted his infant son on the back and shook him to stop him from crying, only to see...

A Wheeling man who came to Johnsburg to sell crack cocaine has pleaded guilty to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and was sentenced to 10 years in prison by...

A man killed Thursday by a Metra train while he was walking along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Woodstock apparently didn't hear the train approaching him from behind because...

McHenry County Sheriff William Mullen warned residents Thursday about a telemarketing group that is falsely representing itself as being affiliated with his office. Mullen said a group using the name...

Mark J. Hawkinson, 30, of Lake in the Hills was killed late Tuesday after he lost control of his pickup truck on Bay Road and slammed into a tree, authorities...