While basketball is a team sport, the South Elgin Storm and Streamwood Sabres had an individual battle going on in Upstate Eight Conference action Saturday night in Streamwood. The Sabres' Tem Esikiel won the individual battle with 33 points over th...

In the past few weeks I have had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Jim Krenz. He has always made himself available and has always spoken candidly with me. He has great moral character and has promised to always do his utmost to make himself av...

Officials in Carpentersville are keeping details about several economic development opportunities for the village close to their chests. And for good reason. Janice Murphy explained contracts have not been signed and officials would hate to jinx th...

Reaching one's 18th birthday comes with perks and privileges -- you can vote and get a car loan. For an increasing number of teens, the milestone also brings a credit crisis. Child identity theft -- by relatives and strangers alike -- is a growing p...

ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP 1 -- Old Algonquin Village Hall, first floor meeting room, 2 S. Main St., Algonquin 2 -- Immanuel Lutheran Church narthex, 178 McHenry Ave. (McHenry & Church), Crystal Lake 3 -- Saints Peter and Paul Church Annex, 410 N. First St....

To include your church in the free listings, e-mail to foxvalley@dailyherald.com, fax to (847) 608-0849, or mail to 385 Airport Road, Suite A, Elgin IL 60123. Epworth UMC: Ash Wednesday services at Epworth United Methodist Church in Elgin are a time...

Carpentersville • Two men were accused at 8:30 a.m. Thursday of trying to cash a stolen check at Amcore Bank, 94 N. Kennedy Drive, police said. Anthony Morris, 35, of 5325 W. Adams St., Chicago, and Brian K. Anderson, 32, of 419 May St., Elgin, were...

A Carpentersville man was sentenced to seven years in prison this week for trafficking in child porn. Peter Thomas, 32, of the 3300 block of Blue Ridge in Carpentersville, could have faced up to 14 years, but U.S. District Judge Blanche Manning sent...

Street crews have dug deep into salt reserves this winter to de-ice roadways and sidewalks, leaving some towns with depleted salt domes. Officials in Dundee Township, Carpentersville, Algonquin, and East and West Dundee said the unusually heavy snow...

Huntley • Lennea Parker, 32, 315 Rowland Road, Marengo, was arrested Jan. 21 on charges of retail theft and criminal damage to property, police said. She also had an outstanding warrant out of Stephenson County for failure to appear in court, police...