"How do you like the price of Gasoline NOW?? Still praising Donald Trump?" Chuck Berndt of McHenry writes in a letter to the editor.

While floodwaters are gradually receding along the Fox River in McHenry County, officials are again asking residents to self-report their damage in hope of securing a declaration to unlock assistance.

Julissa Akins hit two home runs for Hampshire softball, McHenry baseball took over sole possession of first place in the Fox Valley Conference, and Marian Central baseball won its first game of the season. Plus, more in Tuesday's Northwest Herald roundup.

Peyton Mesce worked out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the first inning, and Johnsburg rolled to a 10-2 win over visiting Woodstock in a Kishwaukee River Conference baseball game Tuesday. Mesce struck out nine in five innings.

Woodstock North's Kylee Nicholson and Makayla Nordahl both pitched out of bases-loaded jams in the final two innings as the Thunder beat Marengo 5-3 on Tuesday to move to 8-0 in the Kishwaukee River Conference.

George Donze carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning, Andrew Deegan smacked a go-ahead RBI double in the seventh, and Jacobs edged out Huntley 2-1 during Fox Valley Conference baseball action Tuesday evening.

The owner of a horse farm near Richmond, accused of sexually assaulting a teen who’d taken lessons from him for years, was again denied pretrial release from the jail. He also told the judge he's reopened under a new name.

A Lake County Sheriff’s Office squad car hit a large utility pole near Woodstock late Monday while transporting someone to McHenry County Jail, according to authorities.

Crystal Lake School District 47 has reached a $115,000 settlement with a family who sued over claimed civil rights discrimination after the student made a fake gun out of paper for a class project.

Kayla Hiller and Elaina Moss scored goals and Johnsburg, resuming a match from over a week ago, defeated Harvard 3-1 to remain unbeaten and clinch the Kishwaukee River Conference regular season girls soccer championship Monday evening.