Altruism is alive and well: It’s one thing to offer help to someone you know and love, but there’s something even more virtuous about sacrificing for the benefit of a complete stranger. The seven employees at Loyola University Medical Center in Mayw...

Both men who broke into a Carpentersville home in February 2010 and took a 5-year-old hostage in order to get a terrified couple’s ATM code will spend nearly 21 years in prison. Kane County Judge T. Jordan Gallagher Friday sentenced Antonio E. Espin...

The Community Unit District 300 school board has named the new principals who will lead three of the district’s largest schools. At Wednesday’s board meeting, the school board hired Ami Engel for the role at Jacobs High School in Algonquin, Joe Schu...

If you live in Carpentersville, your water bill is going up come October. But take heart. It could have been worse. Last week, the village board heard the results of a five-year water and sewer rate study conducted by Baxter and Woodman Consulting ...

St. Charles Ÿ A purse was reported stolen from a vehicle that was possibly left unlocked in the driveway of a home on the 800 block of Timbers Trail April 18. The residents told police this was the third time a purse had been stolen from the ve...

The Carpentersville police union that represents sergeants has inked a deal with the village that includes small pay increases, no retroactive pay and physical screenings. Under the deal, there will be no pay increase from May 1, 2010, through Apri...

Was your pet born to be a star? Well, there’s a way to show off your four-legged friend and raise money for charity. Gilberts photographer Pat Dorgan is putting together a 2012 calendar called “Irresistible” that will highlight local pets. Proceeds...

Now that the Carpentersville village board has decided it will no longer pay $50,000 to employ five crossing guards at local schools, police are readying a plan to help kids stay safe once classes resume in the fall. It primarily includes increasing...

A Kane County judge Monday convicted a 68-year-old former South Barrington man of using his car to drag a man about 40 feet last June after an altercation over a motorcycle. Edwin M. Nyden, who now lives in Florida, was convicted by Judge Karen Simp...