Charles Mount

Cary Police Department Chief Robert Levitt became president this week of the McHenry County Police Chiefs Association, succeeding City of McHenry Chief Patrick Joyce, who completed a 2-year term. Other...

Metra Board Chairman Jeffrey Ladd pleaded innocent Monday and asked for a jury trial on charges that he deliberately bumped the fender of another motorist's car during a traffic argument...

Anita Sherwood, the popular Nunda Township supervisor who has been a force in township politics for 30 years, announced Thursday she will leave office on May 5. Sherwood, 70, who...

State narcotics agents got lucky last week--they got two drug suspects for the price of one. An undercover agent with the North Central Narcotics Task Force had set up a...

The Crystal Lake City Council race appears at first glance to be a routine contest among eight candidates to fill two vacancies, but behind the scenes, there's a tense relationship...

Even after four years, the murder case against John Cumbee, the former Sunnyside police officer accused of killing his girlfriend, still hinged on a jurisdictional technicality Monday. The legal Ping-Pong...

In a community known throughout McHenry County for its controversial leadership, rancorous Village Board meetings and scandal, the race to regain the public's confidence in Lake in the Hills hasn't...

A former clerk at the Marengo Post Office has been put on 18 months' federal probation and fined $1,000 for stealing $125 from envelopes containing greeting cards addressed to somebody...

A McHenry County coroner's jury ruled Tuesday that a 36-year-old Marengo woman's death July 13 was a homicide after hearing evidence that she died from a stab wound to the...

A 23-year-old college student was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to possession of hallucinogenic "mushrooms" that were mailed to him from Oregon last year....