A Wisconsin man was broke and so desperate to get his car out of storage that he robbed a Check N' Go in Waukegan and shot the Round Lake Park store clerk to avoid getting caught, prosecutors said in court Tuesday morning. However, the defense atto...

Visitors and employees hunkered down Thursday afternoon in the Lake County Building in downtown Waukegan because of waterspouts on nearby Lake Michigan, but weather officials said there never was a threat to land. National Weather Service meteorolog...

A Winthrop Harbor teen was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting children while assisting at his mother's in-home day-care facility. Under the plea agreement Thursday, Brett Degler, now 19, must also serve 48 months on probation, and 48 mo...

The Hundred Club of Lake County is a charitable group that has no employees, operates under the radar and fortunately has not had to fulfill its primary mission in nearly 28 years. But with membership at half strength and the recent deaths of 19 fir...

Veteran Antioch Republican JoAnn Osmond won't seek re-election to the state House in 2014, she confirmed Friday. “It's time for me to move on,” Osmond, 67, told the Daily Herald. “Twelve years is more than enough.” Osmond has served in Springfield s...

After he lost his home and his girlfriend, Andrew Lowes decided he'd go for it. The gymnastics coach from Grayslake made an audition video and submitted it to “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC's extreme obstacle course competition show. The video got hi...