Kane News

A judge ruled Monday that a Kane man who was the subject of a three-day manhunt in July is unfit to stand trial on a first-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of his father.

Tuesday's rainy, cool weather kept some former patients of Jersey Manor's rehabilitation wing from attending the facility's Bounce Back reunion, but those in attendance couldn't say enough about the care they received when they were patients.

More than 2,000 people, mostly parents and their children, flocked to Plainfield Central High School on Wednesday to get free H1N1 flu mist vaccines.

John Schild, a Greene County Sheriff's Department correctional officer for about 11 years, announced his candidacy for sheriff Tuesday.

Michelle Fahle liked hugs. The 14-year-old declared it proudly on her Facebook page and demonstrated it when she threw her arms around her best friends before class each day, even when she embraced a friend who complained of feeling sick two weeks ago.

At its recent meeting, the Greene County Board approved two bridge projects and some board appointments.

Illinois State Police officials said they have found no reason to launch a formal investigation into allegations made against a part-time Kane officer.

A part-time village police officer is being accused of threatening to "shoot up Village Hall" and entering the American Legion with his gun drawn, among other complaints.

A state mandate once again has Greene County officials trying to determine how to afford establishing a Veteran's Assistance Commission.

Greene County Board members remain uncertain over how they can afford to establish a Veteran's Assistance Commission as mandated by state statutes.

A local man has been indicted by a Jersey County grand jury for the shooting death of his father, whose body was found in his burning home last week.

A manhunt in a small Illinois community is in its third day. A man was found shot in a burned out home, now police want to talk to his son.

Mark L. Prough, 43, who eluded law enforcement 3 days as a person of interest in the shotgun death of his father, Dennis Prough, 70, found in his burned rural Kane home Monday morning was charged in Greene County Circuit Court Thursday.

Jersey County Sheriff Mark Kallal has temporarily halted an aerial search in Kane for a man suspected of killing his father and burning down the slain man's rural Kane house.

A massive search is going on for a man police consider a suspect in his own father's death.

A house fire that claimed the life of one individual is currently under investigation as authorities await the arrival of Illinois State Police Crime lab technicians.

Police are looking for a person of interest after someone shot a man and set the body on fire.

Dean and Rita Heneghan of Jerseyville celebrated their silver wedding anniversary with an outdoor dinner party hosted by their children and family July 11 at their farm in Kane.

A DUI charge against a Jerseyville man, which stemmed from a traffic crash last month that injured a woman, could be upgraded to a felony, Jersey County State's Attorney Ben Goetten said Tuesday.

The Kane County Health Department said Wednesday that two bats -- one found in Elgin and the other in the Dundees -- have tested positive for rabies.