Jack Houston

Tiffin Jernstedt, 16, a cheerleader for the Barrington High School Broncos, wasn't shocked at all last week by a Chicago-based dance group's performance about AIDS at her school, even though...

Barrington High School has been recognized in recent years for its sensitive approach to sex education, particularly praised for its student-written and -produced play about AIDS, "Connections," performed both inside...

After he was charged with placing one boy in his car trunk and trying to do the same to a second, David Nathan said he was just kidding around. The...

Voters in two Fox River towns will be asked in November to decide whether they want legalized gambling in their communities even though one of them, Elgin, already has been...

Just hours after the fatal shootings in a McDonald's restaurant in Kenosha on Tuesday, two detectives from Palatine were dispatched to Wisconsin to determine whether the gunman may have had...

A giant billboard at the "gateway" to McHenry County will be moved back 27 feet from a state highway right of way to comply with the county's sign ordinance, but...

Local businesses and public libraries in Illinois now can participate in a mutual effort to aid each other through a new statewide program unveiled Thursday. Secretary of State George Ryan,...

A Chicago-area couple vacationing in eastern Mexico disappeared while scuba diving near a Caribbean reef and never resurfaced, according to a U.S. State Department official there. "I don't expect they...

A hearing into a 4-year-old harassment complaint against the Streamwood Police Department by one of its officers was postponed Tuesday after the Illinois Human Rights Commission gave the department three...

Amy Nuzzo lived every day of her life to the fullest. Her only real fear, she recently wrote in a school essay, was death. Amy, 12, was killed Thursday morning...