An elderly woman was seriously injured in a crash late Friday afternoon near Route 12 and Ela Road in Lake Zurich.

A home in Island Lake was left uninhabitable, with an estimated $100,000 in damage, after a fire late Friday night. No injuries were reported.

A South Barrington police officer has been publicly lauded for helping rescue someone who’d stopped breathing.

Cook County prosecutors on Friday announced the indictment of a Barrington man who they say beat his estranged girlfriend, a Vernon Hill endocrinologist, with a baseball bat last month before shooting her in the stomach. William R. Zientek is charged with first-degree murder. He’ll be arraigned on Jan. 9.

A man shot Tuesday afternoon at a Schaumburg apartment complex has been stabilized at a hospital while police continue to search for the shooter.

Frontline Care Center, Lake County’s first outpatient mental health site for current and former first responders and veterans is opening in Round Lake.

Mark your calendar for Dickens in Dundee, tree lightings, parades and festivals throughout the suburbs, Breakfast with Santa, Highwood’s Elf Invasion Pub Crawl, “Nutcrackers” and more happening this week.

Prosecutors say a Barrington man accused of fatally shooting his estranged girlfriend in the chest Sunday “savagely beat her with a baseball bat” before opening fire.