Volunteers who provided more than 134,000 hours of service to veterans were recently honored for their effort by the Veterans Assistance Commission of Lake County. Lovell Federal Health Care Center is the biggest recipient with more than 58,000 hour...

Republican JoAnn Osmond will carry on with her duties in the representing the 61st district in the Illinois House of Representatives. With all 70 precincts reporting, unofficial totals show Osmond, of Antioch, with 24,513 votes and Ed Erwin, a Democ...

Democrats took back the 31st state Senate seat in a seesaw nail-biter Tuesday, as Melinda Bush edged Republican Joe Neal to represent northern and parts of central Lake County. Both political parties had targeted the open seat in which the candidate...

With no incumbent running, the race for the 31st state Senate District in northern and parts of central Lake County has drawn the attention of both political parties in a very big way. Combined, Democrat Melinda Bush of Grayslake and Republican Joe ...

Melinda Bush says her record of watching out for taxpayers as a Lake County Board member speaks for itself, but opponent Joe Neal sees it differently. What had appeared to be a relatively quiet race for the 31st District state Senate seat covering n...

A missing Volo woman who was the subject of an intensive search said she needed to “get away” and spent six days living out of her SUV with her two young children in a secluded area of the Wisconsin Dells, authorities said Monday. Aneta Marsek, 33, ...

Creating jobs and addressing the state’s budget problems are top issues for the two candidates running for the 31st state Senate seat covering most of northern and parts of central Lake County. In Daily Herald questionnaires and in interviews, Repub...

Democrat Ed Erwin is seeking to topple veteran Republican politician JoAnn Osmond for the 61st House District seat in the November election. Osmond, of Antioch, has been a state representative since 2002. Erwin, a Lindenhurst resident, is semiretire...