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Gurnee Mayor Kristina Kovarik listens to public comments about the possible discharge of cancer causing chemicals in Gurnee during a meeting in February.

Ethylene oxide testing to be extended another 30 days in Lake County after improvements are finished

June 19, 2019 at 5:33 p.m.

With improvements in the works for two Lake County facilities that use ethylene oxide, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to fund additional air testing to see whether the...

Jury delivers guilty verdicts on all counts in 2016 Libertyville shooting

June 18, 2019 at 5:23 p.m.

After a weeklong trial, it took a jury only two hours Tuesday to find Kenneth Seplak guilty of first-degree murder in the 2016 shooting death of a 30-year-old Libertyville man...

A photo taken by a courtroom media pool photographer shows Kenneth Seplak during the second day of his trial last week in Lake County Circuit Court, where he is being tried on murder charges for allegedly shooting a Libertyville man out of romantic jealousy.

‘I wasn’t planning on shooting anybody’: Libertyville murder defendant takes stand, claims self-defense

June 18, 2019 at 7:56 a.m.

For the first time since his arrest in 2016, Kenneth Seplak, testifying Monday on his own behalf, admitted to seeing and having a confrontation with David Gorski the night Gorski...

Wisconsin man guilty of not reporting fatal Zion hit-and-run

June 17, 2019 at 1:50 p.m.

After more than a day of deliberations, a Lake County jury has found a Kenosha man guilty of two felonies in a Zion hit-and-run crash that killed a 19-year-old and...

Summer impaired driving enforcement program to begin in Lake County

June 16, 2019 at 10:28 a.m.

The Lake County Sheriff's Office has announced plans for Independence Day traffic enforcement with a focus on impaired and unbuckled drivers. The safety campaign will run from Monday through July...

Zion hit-and-run death trial goes to jury

June 14, 2019 at 7:32 a.m.

Following closing arguments late Thursday afternoon, a Lake County jury began deliberating the fate of a Wisconsin man charged with failure to report an accident involving death in connection with...

Woman pleads guilty in Waukegan DUI crash that killed two

June 16, 2019 at 1:50 p.m.

A woman who authorities said ran a red light in Waukegan last August, resulting in a multiple-vehicle collision that left two people dead, pleaded guilty Thursday to the most serious...

A photo taken by a media pool photographer shows Assistant State's Attorney Jim Newman reading text messages aloud Wednesday during the murder trial of Kenneth Seplak.

Libertyville murder trial witness describes defendant’s alleged obsession with her

June 12, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

A Wauconda woman testified Wednesday that she had accepted money from murder defendant Kenneth Seplak, but that she had repeatedly made it clear to him they were not a couple...

Prosecutor: Libertyville man shot after dating murder defendant’s ‘dream girl’

June 11, 2019 at 1:55 p.m.

Assistant State's Attorney Jim Newman opened the murder trial of Kenneth Seplak Tuesday with the last text Seplak allegedly sent to "the girl of his dreams." "Talk to me. Stop...

Trial begins in fatal Libertyville shooting authorities have linked to jealousy

June 10, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

The trial began Monday for a Round Lake Beach man who authorities said killed a Libertyville man after he went out with a woman who had rejected the defendant's advances....

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