Melissa Calusinski said there was nothing unusual about Benjamin Kingan's behavior on the day the 16-month-old toddler fell ill at the Lincolnshire day care center where Calusinski worked, a police officer testified Thursday. Calusinski, 25, of Carp...

The Dundee Township Library has scored $10,000 in children's books from Random House, courtesy of JetBlue Airways, through the airline's “Soar with Reading” Program. Want to see them get it in person? JetBlue and PBS Kids, its program partner, will...

Breaking news • A man laying on train tracks was struck and killed early Wednesday by a freight train in unincorporated Antioch, authorities said. Full story • A 55-year-old McHenry man has died after his car struck a guard rail Tuesday in uni...

Former Carpentersville Village President Bill Sarto will run for Kane County Board chairman, filling the Democratic void in the contest to this point. Sarto announced his entry into the race Wednesday with a list of his tenure in government and prom...

In relative terms, it really doesn’t take that long to drive from Schaumburg to Libertyville. But Amy Kingan testified Wednesday that on Jan. 14, 2009, “it seemed like it took forever” for her to get from her job to what was then Condell Medical Cen...

A 24-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail inside an Algonquin grocery store earlier this year was found fit to stand trial. Fabian J. Torres, a Sleepy Hollow resident and former employee at Joe Caputo and Sons, 100 S. Randall Road, is acc...

Editor's note: Anne M. Koehlinger had her record expunged in May of 2015. Two Barrington High School students are facing felony theft charges after stealing six iPhones from a gym locker room during physical education class, according to police...

Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the trial of a Carpentersville woman accused of killing a toddler at a Lincolnshire day care center. Melissa Calusinski, 25, faces up to life in prison if convicted of the Jan. 14, 2009, murder of 16-mont...