Batavia • A juvenile was charged with criminal trespass at 5:48 p.m. July 7, according to a police report. Police say they found him lighting a paper cup and a stick on fire next to Alice Gustafson Elementary School, 905 Carlisle Road. • An unlocked...

St. Charles • Someone shattered a panel on the Taste of the Himalayas restaurant sign on the 100 block of North Third Street sometime between June 21 and 23, according to police. • Paulino Uriostegui-Gutierrez, 27, of the 1700 block of Covington Cou...

St. Charles • Benjamin John Stacey, 31, of the 400 block of South 10th Street, was charged June 13 with obstructing a peace officer and disorderly conduct, according to a police report. Police observed Stacey having a loud verbal confrontation with ...

Kane County • Matthew J. Galica, 18, of the 900 block of Black Walnut Drive, Sugar Grove, was arrested at 12:29 a.m. Saturday and charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer, resisting police and underage drinking at Johnson's Mound Forest Pr...

St. Charles • Jamie Michelle Paulette, 17, of the 3300 block of Campton Hills Road, was charged May 28 with retail theft, according to a police report. Store security at Meijer, 855 S. Randall Road, caught Paulette placing two packs of diet pills an...

The Provincial House shop that operated on the corner of Third and James streets in Geneva served as a centerpiece of sorts for that popular shopping district. It was, after all, front and center for the crowds attracted to the courthouse lawn acros...

Carpentersville • Charles S. Kimbrough, 20, of the 100 block of Park Avenue, was charged with felony theft Monday. Police said that in May he broke into someone's home, stole an X-Box video game system, then sold the system for cash at Gamestop insi...