Johnsburg News

It's Love to Read Week once again in District 200 schools, and I was one of the dozens of guest readers who will visit classrooms this week.

Ice divers using side sonar prepare Saturday morning to search Pistakee Bay for the body of a missing angler who fell through the ice Friday evening.

Caitlin Alroth, 2, reaches for a basket full of groceries from the SHARE program while her parents, Dale and Christine Alroth, wait for the groceries to be counted.

Emergency crews searched a body of water near northwest suburban Johnsburg following of report of a fisherman falling into a lake tonight.

JOHNSBURG – Divers are on the verge of calling off a search of Pistakee Lake for the night, hours after receiving a report that a person has fallen through the ice.

JOHNSBURG – The same day that the Petersen family reported their snowmobile and equipment trailer stolen from a lot in Wauconda, the $20,000 vehicle was spotted about 20 miles northeast of the village in Wadsworth.

Mario Casciaro, 28, is driven home by family members Tuesday after the jury was sent home after deliberating for almost eight hours.

Both sides rested their cases Monday in the trial of Mario Casciaro, a McHenry man accused of first-degree murder in the 2002 death of 17-year-old Brian Carrick over a drug debt.

As Mario Casciaro's first-degree murder trial unfolds, imagine being able to watch and listen as witness Shane Lamb described his confrontation with Brian Carrick.

Mario Casciaro walks into the McHenry County Government Center on Jan. 25, 2012, for his trial on charges of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death in the death of Brian Carrick in December 2002.

After 17-year-old Brian Carrick vanished in 2002 from the McHenry County grocery store where he stocked shelves, co-worker Mario Casciaro made a chilling claim.

The expo will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 17 at Johnsburg High School, 2002 W. Ringwood Road.

Four jurors were seated Monday in the trial of Mario Casciaro, a 28-year-old McHenry man accused of the 2002 murder of 17-year-old Brian Carrick of Johnsburg over a drug debt.

Bill Carrick, the father of Brian Carrick, who disappeared in 2002, stands outside the Johnsburg grocery store where his son was last seen alive.

More than nine years after his teenage son disappeared from the McHenry County grocery store where he worked, William Carrick still is looking for answers.

PISTAKEE HIGHLANDS – Firefighters were called at 7:56 a.m. today to a house fire at 811 Annabelle St.