A 43-year-old Waukegan motorcyclist is in critical condition after a crash near Island Lake Saturday. William Kucera was riding a 2005 Harley Davidson motorcycle west on Route 176 around 1:31 p.m. when a Woodstock woman driving a 2004 Dodge four-doo...

A Round Lake Park man is charged with felony possession of child pornography after police received a tip Friday and arrested him a short time later. John R. Hedges, 40, of 911 Barbara Court, was arrested by Round Lake Park police Friday after a pers...

A Burr Ridge family got an early Halloween scare when they found a snake about 6 feet long laying in their driveway Monday night. Jackie Dunbar was in her house about dusk Monday when her sister went out to walk the dog. Soon after leaving, her sist...

An emergency helicopter flew an injured woman to a hospital after a one-car crash in Arlington Heights Sunday. Arlington Heights fire officials were called the crash on Arlington Heights Road near Cedar just before 6 p.m., officials said. The injure...

Firefighters are warning residents to turn off halogen lamps when they are not in use after a preliminary investigation showed a lamp started a fire in a North Barrington home Friday. Lake Zurich fire officials responded to the 100 block of Route 59...

Vandals caused about $50,000 damage to about 70 vehicles seized by Naperville police and awaiting auction, Naperville police Lt. Joel Truemper said. Police and fire officials were called to the secured lot -- the location of which police asked not t...

Just six years after emigrating from India to America to give their sons better lives, two Hoffman Estates parents said a final goodbye to one son Monday. Ayush Joshi, 20, of Hoffman Estates died from injuries sustained in a car crash on Thursday in...

A homeless man is charged with two counts of first degree murder in the death of a man in Hanover Park, police said Saturday. Antonio Pacheco, 33, is charged in the murder of Alexis F. Roman, whose body was found behind a Hanover Park strip mall Thu...

Autopsies will be conducted today on two of three men killed in a car crash near Huntley that critically injured two other men. Kane County Coroner Chuck West said autopsies will be done to determine the cause of death on Ayush Joshi, 20, of Hoffman...

An unidentified bicyclist is dead after being hit by a freight train in Kane County around 5:35 p.m. Sunday. The man was hit while traveling north on Engel Road trying to cross the tracks near Plank Road when he was hit by a westbound train just wes...