Huntley, Crystal Lake South and Prairie Ridge picked up wins in Fox Valley Conference boys basketball, Richmond-Burton boys defeated Woodstock North, Makena Cleary sank four 3s for Crystal Lake South girls, and more results in Wednesday's roundup.

A crash Wednesday morning has shut down a stretch of Route 23 near Marengo.

Olivia Leuze posted a 13-point, 14-rebound double-double and Malaina Kurth added 11 points as the Cary-Grove girls basketball team handed Burlington Central its first Fox Valley Conference loss of the season, defeating the Rockets 42-35 on Tuesday night.

Johnsburg never trailed Tuesday and held off Marengo 42-37 to move to 14-0 and into sole possession of first place in the Kishwaukee River Conference.

Each year at this time, we hear a lot about resolutions or at the very least the good intentions people have about the new year. Some of us are happy just to choose a couple of words to guide the way.

Trump and Truth Store owner Lisa Fleischmann hopes to reopen her store in a few weeks in Crystal Lake.

After months of debate, and a ruling by a state agency in favor of Ascension’s closing it down, the Alexian Brothers Medical Center’s labor and delivery unit in Elk Grove Village served its last patient Tuesday.

Adam Bauer had a double-double to lead Cary-Grove's boys basketball team to a 62-35 win over Carmel in a nonconference game. Hampshire's girls beat Crystal Lake South behind Mikala Amegasse's 18 points, and more in Tuesday's Northwest Herald roundup.

Prairie Grove School District 46 Superintendent John Bute has left his position in the middle of the school year, seemingly abruptly.

With about 30 observers in the courtroom and on Zoom, a former Wonder Lake ski team instructor and grocery store owner admitted Tuesday to sexually abusing a child in the mid-1990s.