Konstantinos Siambanis sent Marengo baseball past Johnsburg on a walk-off hit, Crystal Lake South baseball held off Crystal Lake Central, Hampshire softball rallied past McHenry, Johnsburg, Harvard and Richmond-Burton girls soccer all won, and more in the roundup.

McHenry third baseman Bennet Baumann, who's sporting much shorter hair this season, showed off his strength Monday, going 4 for 4 with a double and 3 RBIs to help lead the Warriors to an 8-3 win over Jacobs in a Fox Valley Conference baseball showdown.

Crystal Lake Central junior Ella Arana went a perfect 4 for 4 with two doubles and four runs scored as the Tigers beat Prairie Ridge 7-1 in their Fox Valley Conference softball game Monday.

Firefighters responding to a call in Lake in the Hills discovered a deceased male inside Monday.

Road closures, park closures, more sandbagging and – with a break in the rainfall – the waiting game for waters to top out were the focuses Monday along the Fox River in the McHenry County area.

Five months after the Thompson’s Appliances building in downtown Woodstock partially collapsed, the city pumped the brakes on legal action to get the remaining structure torn down.

Authorities have identified a man who was found dead in a Woodstock homeless encampment and determined whether it was a natural death.

Firefighters doused a blaze that broke out late Sunday in a Crystal Lake home.

Jacobs senior Andrew Deegan reached base five times the hard way against Burlington Central on Friday. He was hit by a pitch five times in as many at-bats, tying the national record. Plus more in this week's McHenry County baseball notes.

Almost 10,000 more people voted Democratic in the March primary in McHenry County. Was that simply indicative of more competitive races on that side of the aisle, or a bigger political shift?