State Senate could vote on pensions today A union-backed plan to curb the state’s escalating retirement costs passed its first test Wednesday, setting up a vote on the Illinois Senate floor as early as today. The Senate committee’s approval of ...

The Dundee Township Rotary Club recently awarded $30,000 in scholarships to 19 students attending Dundee-Crown High School-Carpentersville, Harry D. Jacobs High School-Algonquin, St. Edward Central Catholic High School-Elgin, and Elgin Academy. Sinc...

The East Dundee Police Department has started the process to part ways with a sergeant who has three criminal cases pending in Carpentersville and Wisconsin. Sgt. Michael Seyller, 39, of Carpentersville, signed a separation agreement with the depar...

Not all back union-favored pension cuts Although public employee union leaders have rallied behind Senate President John Cullerton’s pension reform proposal, not all retirees back the plan. The proposal could cut teachers’ and state workers’ pe...

Former Carpentersville Fire Chief John Schuldt retired from the fire department at the height of an investigation into whether he inappropriately touched two female village employees, according to documents obtained by the Daily Herald. Schuldt sai...

A Carpentersville man was charged with assaulting a 73-year-old Elgin man and chasing him with an ax Friday in a dispute over rent money, according to police and court records. Christopher Pedersen, 60, of the 100 block of South Lincoln Avenue, is c...

There wasn't much blood. But there were buckets of sweat, some tears and a fair amount of initial protest from their aching bodies. But in the end, the six contestants of the Daily Herald's 2013 Fittest Loser competition dropped a combined total of...