Crystal Lake Central's Cait Jones, who was diagnosed with epilepsy after a seizure during her freshman year, is back on the mat and enjoying a strong start to her senior season.

A Chicago wanted in the Ohio slayings of his ex-wife and her dentist husband has been picked up in Rockford and is awaiting an extradition hearing, according to officials records.

Indivisible McHenry County held what organizers say was 14th protest in past year, brings out residents with family affected by ICE

A man knocked on the door of a 89-year-old Crystal Lake woman, claimed to make home repairs and then stole $15,000 from her, authorities allege.

As a Marine, Rick Prescott of McHenry helped build a tent city for Vietnamese refugees at Camp Pendleton in California. It put him on a path to a life of serving others.

"With so many disturbing and increasingly violent stories in the news lately, it warmed my heart to see the beautiful husky being rescued on the cover of the Jan. 7 paper," Rosalyn Hayes of Crystal Lake writes in a letter to the editor.

Richmond-Burton's Breckin Campbell won the 285-pound title at the 62nd Annual Lyle King Princeton Invite, Johnburg boys basketball's Jayce Schmitt surpassed 1,000 career points, and more in Saturday's Northwest Herald roundup.

Hundreds of residents have organized against plans for a battery storage facility near Prairie Grove, with concerns over the potential impacts on safety and wildlife.

"On Dec. 10 at Bethany Lutheran Church, my husband and I witnessed the most spectacular Christmas program by Cary-Grove students, directed by Rob Boncosky," Barbara Nelson of Crystal Lake writes in a letter to the editor.

A third customer has sued Fun City Adventure Park in Algonquin last year has filed a civil lawsuit seeking more than $50,000 claiming, like the others, that she was injured after jumping into a foam pit.