Crime and Courts

A wanted man was arrested Friday at the McHenry County Courthouse after he sprinted out of a courtroom and led security officers on a foot c…

The dismissal of what a judge called a “retaliatory” defamation lawsuit aimed at chilling free speech seems to have sent shivers down the sp…

A judge on Wednesday dismissed what he called a “retaliatory” defamation lawsuit against an anonymous dark money source. Now the pair of for…

ROCKFORD — A Rockford man has pleaded guilty to pointing a laser pointer at an aircraft.Forty-five-y…

A judge on Tuesday sentenced a 51-year-old man to prison in connection with a 2016 residential burglary in which the man allegedly bit one o…

The clock has begun ticking toward the sale of the property where police say 5-year-old AJ Freund died after his parents beat him and forced…

A Wonder Lake man accused of sexually assaulting a girl over the course of two years is scheduled for a bond hearing Wednesday in McHenry Co…

A man who was at one time considered one of McHenry County's top 10 most wanted fugitives has been sentenced to prison for possessing nearly…

Former McHenry County Board candidate Orville Brettman said he doesn’t remember much of the testimony he gave before a grand jury in 1975, b…

A Rolling Meadows man was sentenced to probation Thursday in connection with a single-vehicle crash that killed a Lake Barrington High Schoo…