Crystal Lake News

A Crystal Lake man was charged with crashing his sport utility vehicle into a business and at least one other car early Saturday night, seriously injuring a 9-year-old girl and her mother.

A vote on House Democrats' version of health care reform could come as soon as this weekend.

Authorities who want to investigate the McCullom Lake brain cancer cases first will take the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention up on its offer to review previous research.

Democratic and Green candidates have filed petitions to run for two countywide offices in the 2010 election.

Kane Kellett's unusual method of raising his right hand to be sworn in earned him a six-month contempt of court sentence in McHenry County Court over the weekend.

When a McHenry County judge asked Kane E. Kellett to raise his right hand and be sworn in court Saturday morning, the Crystal Lake man raised just a finger.

A stay-at-home mom who worked part-time at her daughter's school, Kris Blum never anticipated that art would become such a passion – let alone, a career.

Indian Prairie Elementary School teacher aide Sharon Schill spends time with fourth-grader Erin Bowen reading Maggie and Max.

CRYSTAL LAKE – A 50-year-old Crystal Lake man was the first person in McHenry County whose death was attributed to the H1N1 flu.

CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake Planning and Zoning Commission raised questions about how a proposed Metra station in Ridgefield would affect traffic in the largely rural area.

Following is a list of recommended trick or treat times on Halloween day. Algonquin – 3 to 7 p.m. Carpentersville – 3 to 7 p.m. Cary – 4 p.m. to dusk Crystal Lake – 3 to 7 p.m. Fox River Grove – noon to dusk Hampshire – 3 to 8 p.m. Harvard – 5 to 8 p.m. Hebron – 1 to 6 p.m. Holiday Hills ...

CRYSTAL LAKE – A $50,000 repaving project might have solved parking problems at McHenry County College, allowing school officials to put the brakes on plans for another lot.

A 32-year-old man could be sentenced to up to five years in prison for delivering an ultimately fatal punch outside a Crystal Lake bar in September 2007.

After throwing a punch that ultimately cost another man his life, Dustin Goy told a friend "that guy deserved it," a prosecution witness said Tuesday in the Crystal Lake man's involuntary manslaughter trial.

A night out for two groups of friends ended in tragedy when one man's reckless and unnecessary acts ended the life of another, a McHenry County prosector said Monday as a trial got underway in a case once labeled as a one-punch murder.

WOODSTOCK – A picnic and open house is planned Sunday for those interested in learning about a new cemetery designed to accommodate Jewish burial customs.

CRYSTAL LAKE – The Care4 Breast Cancer 5K Run/Walk is about a week away. The event is organized by the Family Health Partnership Clinic and the McHenry County Breast Cancer Task force, and it is sponsored by Sage Products Inc.

CRYSTAL LAKE – More than a half-dozen area churches are joining forces this weekend to raise money to fight hunger with the annual Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty walk.

With the first shipments of H1N1 vaccines arriving in Illinois, many local providers are experiencing shortages of the other flu vaccine – the seasonal flu vaccine.

CRYSTAL LAKE – A fire began around 8:15 p.m. in the 600 block of Concord Drive, damaging a three bedroom home.