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Lake County Police on the scene of crash after a chase that injured several people and left the suspect with a gun shot wound to the face after a earlier altercation with police November 14, 2014.

‘What is this guy doing?’: Crash victims testify in police-pursuit trial

May 10, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

On a mid-November night in 2014, Helen Pecoraro and Richard Clark left their Antioch residence to pick up Pecoraro's daughter at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where she was...

Lawyer: Teen on trial for police chase ‘made a lot of mistakes’

May 10, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

A trail of broken cars and broken bones were left after Ronald Maas' frantic attempts to evade police during a chase that went through several Lake County communities on a...

A sign warning the public not to swim in a channel south of Waukegan Municipal Beach is posted west of the spot where a local teenage boy jumped in and drowned June 24, 2016, in what police say was an attempt to swim the channel with his brother.

Police: No swimming in channel where boy drowned

May 23, 2019 at 11:29 p.m.

The city of Waukegan has been trying to keep people away from the channel where a teenager drowned Friday, the second drowning in that location in the past five years,...

Trial set to start in 2014 police chase across county

May 10, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

Jury selection began just before noon Monday in the trial of Ronald Maas, an Ingleside man charged with multiple felonies, including attempted murder, stemming from an alleged drug- and alcohol-fueled...

Divers from regional fire departments prepare to assist in the search for a swimmer who reportedly went under the water in a channel south of Waukegan Municipal Beach on Friday, June 24.

Fire chief says teen drowned, found in channel south of Waukegan beach

May 23, 2019 at 11:28 p.m.

A teenage boy drowned Friday afternoon while swimming with family members in a channel south of Waukegan Municipal Beach, Fire Chief George Bridges Jr. said. The search for the teen...

Ortiz elected to second term as chief Lake County judge

May 10, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

Lake County Circuit Court Judge Jorge Ortiz has been elected by fellow circuit members to a second term as chief judge of the 19th Judicial Circuit. Ortiz was unanimously re-elected...

Wrongful-death suit filed in crash that killed Grayslake woman

May 10, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

The family of a Grayslake chiropractor killed in a May 13 crash on Route 120 filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in Lake County Circuit Court Wednesday against one of the drivers...

Charge: murder; <a href="/news/local/breaking/ct-met-officer-shot-rockford-20190307-story.html">Read more</a>

Cross-county chase nabs Wisconsin carjacking suspect; child inside vehicle unharmed

May 10, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

Following a 14-mile chase early Thursday morning on the Tri-State Tollway, Lake County Sheriff's deputies stopped a vehicle that had been carjacked in Wisconsin with a 9-year-old boy inside. Sheriff's...

Woman accused of calling in false Gliniewicz report seeks relaxed curfew

May 10, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

A Vernon Hills woman accused of making a false police report that led to a major police search in the shooting death of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz...

Plea deal explored in 2014 Hawthorn Woods shooting case

May 10, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

A trial scheduled next week for a North Barrington attorney charged with home invasion and firing shots in his ex-wife's house has been delayed to allow a meeting between his...

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