A fund has been set up at Elgin Community College to assist the family of Marco Leon. Leon was one of four local teens killed in a car crash Nov. 1 in unincorporated Burlington Township. Contributions can be made by cash or check made out to ECC wit...

Author to visit Huntley Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of "Pay it Forward," is scheduled to visit Huntley this week to talk about her book and its message. Hyde's visit is part of the One Book, One Community initiative, which hopes to foster discussion...

An 18-year-old man is facing a laundry list of charges after crashing his car into an Elgin house early Friday, killing the 27-year-old passenger in his vehicle. Daniel Chagala-Villasca, 18, of 640 Cleveland Avenue in Elgin, was arrested and charged...

Barrington • Someone tried to break into a home on the 300 block of North Valley Road Oct. 29 or 30. The burglar broke the lock but failed to pry open a glass patio door and didn't get inside; damage was estimated at $800. • William B. Mason, 17, 7 ...

Algonquin • A man was charged at 12:15 a.m. Thursday with the neglect of a child, police said. Thomas M. Kennedy, 44, was arrested at his home at 355 Crestwood Court in Algonquin at 12:15 a.m. Thursday. Kennedy posted a $100 bond and was released wi...

Carpentersville trustees gave a World War II-era rifle that was headed for disposal in a piping-hot furnace a reprieve this week. Trustees voted Tuesday to donate an Iver Johnson M1 Carbine rifle to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2298 in West Du...

The Daily Herald's beat reporter for Carpentersville, Larissa Chinwah, recently wrote a scathing editorial on how village board members were being "derailed by personal jabs, attacks, name-calling, and bickering." (Carpentersville meetings are out o...