Despite having to host their annual Walk for Suicide Prevention and Awareness virtually again this year, organizers expect to see the number of participants grow. There won't be a large crowd of people gathering together for the cause, but Lake Coun...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - A popular vacation haven normally filled with tens of thousands of summer tourists was clogged with fleeing vehicles Monday after the entire resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to leave as a ferocious wildfire...

If only those with Alex Green that early December morning in 2018 had sought help, maybe the 25-year-old would have gotten to spend another Christmas with his father. Instead, Bill Green of Naperville suspects, those with his son were afraid they wo...

MATHER, Calif. (AP) - More than 13,500 firefighters were working Monday to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee to safety. After an extensive review of fire damage, ...

William Ames Recktenwald, 79, of Karbers Ridge, Illinois, and formerly of Chicago, died peacefully on Friday at the Linda White Hospice House in Evansville, Indiana, after a brief illness. "Reck," as so many knew him, had been the senior lecturer in...

Authorities are investigating the death of a 26-year-old man found inside a house early Friday after a fire there had been extinguished. The Lake County coroner's office said Daniel Girard died from inhaling smoke and carbon monoxide. Toxicology rep...

DROSOPIGI, Greece (AP) - Wildfires raged uncontrolled through Greece and Turkey for yet another day Friday, forcing thousands to flee by land and sea, and killing a volunteer firefighter on the fringes of Athens in a huge forest blaze that threatene...

A Chicago man who police say entered his ex-girlfriend's Round Lake Park home and savagely beat her last August pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a litany of charges stemming from that and two other criminal cases against him. Kevin J. Calhoun, 31, at...

A Chicago man who police say entered his ex-girlfriend's Round Lake Park home and savagely beat her last August was indicted by a Lake County grand jury on Wednesday for charges including felony home invasion. Kevin J. Calhoun, 31, is also charged w...