Zion News

A Georgia man was officially indicted by a Lake County grand jury Wednesday on charges of kidnapping and aggravated criminal sexual assault.

A 20-year-old Zion man drowned in Lake Michigan at Adeline Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park after he apparently tried to swim to a raft 50 yards from shore.

If you're looking for a copy of Sports Illustrated in the Hartland area this week, you might be out... The surest sign of summer isn't the smoke spewing from the grill - it's the crazy-looking ice cream... Marine Cpl.

This Tuesday, May 22, 2012 photo shows Marine Cpl. Larry Bailey II, of Zion, Ill., at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

In this Tuesday, May 22, 2012 photo, Marine Cpl. Larry Bailey II, of Zion, Ill., shows the tattoos on his arm at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE ON MONDAY, MAY 28, 2012, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT - In this Tuesday, May 22, 2012 photo, Marine Cpl.

Extensive damage caused by a fire that destroyed a longstanding Beach Park pet store Sunday will make it difficult to quickly pinpoint the cause of the blaze that killed dozens of small rodents, birds, snakes and reptiles, the fire chief said today.

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Happy Land Pet Center owner Nancy Zobrist of Beach Park hugs Bailey Hoenig, 11, of Winthrop Harbor outside the business in Beach Park.

Business Ledger Report LAKE BLUFF -- Computer Help Key Inc. awarded the 6th annual Computer Help Key Technology Scholarship to Ashley Randle, a senior at Zion Benton High School.

Jake Serd of the band DEGRADE THE SIGNAL and the Danville, Illinois radio station 94.9 K-Rock recently conducted an interview with former SOIL and current DIRGE WITHIN guitarist Shaun Glass .

A former Marine corporal convicted of rape in Arlington and potentially facing the death penalty in a 2009 slaying at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall has been charged with stabbing two young girls to death in Illinois in 2005.

Background: In our analysis we have attempted to perform uncontrolled hypertension gap analysis for the residents of Lake county, IL based on the hospital discharge data for residents of lake County, IL collected between 2001- 2009.

Two men have been charged separately in a pair of high-profile Lake County murder cases that previously focused on other suspects, authorities announced today.

Sexual assault charges that sent a man to prison for 20 years were formally dropped Tuesday morning by the Lake County state's attorney's office.

Deanne Fisher of Gurnee replenishes the salad bowl during the Breakfast Exchange Club of Gurnee's annual Soup and Salad in the Park fundraiser at Viking Park in Gurnee next to volunteer Jacqui Hebein of Ingelside, from the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

Trent Lee stabbed his girlfriend nine times with two knives while they were at a party in Zion on Oct.

Michael Ingersoll, 22, of Zion, was also arrested following the foot chase, Guzman said.

A weeklong investigation into a murder and kidnapping in Georgia led police to a motel in Beach Park where two suspects were arrested without incident and the kidnapping victim, who had texted her location to a friend, was freed.

A Across Lake County, health professionals, law enforcement agents and volunteers are working behind the scenes to target youths' alcohol consumption and drug abuse.