Members of the Carpentersville Improvement Committee say gaining the trust of residents is one major hurdle facing the group in its infancy. "There is a stigma that we are going to have to work on," said committee Chairman Patricia Schultz. "It is n...

Local MB/WARP Skatepark team skateboarder, Chaz Ortiz, 13, of Carpentersville won first place at the Mountain Dew Action Sports Tour in Orlando recently, scoring an unprecedented fifth place among the pros and earning him a spot to compete in the pr...

Booming towns so often have a hard time keeping an eye on builders that the International Code Council is hoping to get the federal government to step in with extra cash. "People take it for granted that when they walk into the room and flip the lig...

North Aurora • Alfred D. Pettis, 17, of 4603 Main St., Lisle, was charged with battery after an incident at Fox Tech and Trade School, 195 Poplar Place, at 2:50 p.m. Friday, according to a police report. St. Charles • Elizabeth A. Kovacevich, 19, of...

Ten-year-old Taylor Baum didn't die Tuesday. At least that's not the way her mom looks at it. "I want everyone to say she was cured of leukemia," Tanya Baum said. "I would just want everyone to know that the last couple of weeks she fought so hard....

A Thanksgiving tradition in Dundee Township rests on West Dundee firefighters this year. They will be in charge of keeping the turkey raffle going while East Dundee firefighters take a year off. West Dundee firefighters know their job, which they wi...

In a last-ditch effort to bar a 27-year-old Wauconda man from death row eligibility, defense attorneys called the Kane County state's attorney as a witness Tuesday, charging he used the threat of capital punishment as leverage to entice murder suspe...

Carpentersville officials want Kane County Forest Preserve District officials to back off negotiations with the owners of the massive Brunner Farm in unincorporated Dundee Township. Leaders of the northern Fox Valley village see the 700-acre riverf...

Carpentersville • A Carpentersville man wanted on a 1999 warrant was arrested late Monday, police said. Antonio Sanchez Sr., 58, of 1809 Endicott Circle, was charged on the warrant with a violation of an order of protection, police said. Sanchez was...

First published July 18, 2006 While most suburban prosecutors use the death penalty sparingly, even in heinous slayings, Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti intends to seek it whenever he can. Barsanti says that puts the onus on judges a...