Kane County News

An Elgin man has been sentenced to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty this week to felony weapons charges stemming from a brief chase that occurred on the city's southwest side in September.

Three inmates at the Kane County jail in St. Charles face fresh felony charges after attacking a fourth inmate, police said Friday.

A 63-year-old Aurora man faces as long as 37 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a child he was baby sitting.

An Aurora teen in jail for allegedly setting his 3-year old niece on fire in October now faces additional charges for damaging the sprinkler system in his Kane County jail cell.

Time is running out for Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez and the county board. The time to pay the sheriff department's final 2009 payroll checks is imminent, and a solution to plugging the department's end-of-the-year budget hole seems nowhere in sight.

Marcus D. Sessom got a second chance in April when a Kane County judge agreed to give him probation in a case initiated with allegations he had unlawful sexual contact with a minor in an Elgin residence last year.

Birkett wants other unsolved crimes investigated to stop him from offering last-minute info in bid to delay execution November 13, 2009 Now that a DuPage County jury has given serial killer Brian Dugan the death penalty, authorities are investigating his possible connection to other long-unsolved crimes.

A graduate of Hinkley-Big Rock High School was killed early Friday morning in a single-vehicle accident in rural Kane County.

A judge set bond at $1 million for a Streamwood, Ill. woman accused of using her car to run down and kill an Elgin, Ill.

Kane County's Information Technology Department is headed toward a layoff now that the county board finalized its 2010 budget.

Three Carpentersville teens face felony robbery charges after holding up a 15-year-old boy with BB guns, police said Wednesday.

A Kane County judge has set bond at $1 million for a woman accused of using her car to run down and kill an Elgin teen who reportedly fought with the woman's son over a girl.

I don't think Kyle Abraham is smiling tonight. He's facing a minimum of six and a maximum of 30 years in prison after he was found guilty today of selling drugs near a Batavia church.

Kane County authorities have charged a Streamwood woman with two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly using her car to crush an Elgin teenager.

Share + Nov 9, 2009 3:35 pm US/Central ST. CHARLES, Ill. A former northwest suburban woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for abducting her children and taking them to California in 2004.

St. Charles officials have been seeking a long-term employee to guide economic development in the city since the early days of City Administrator Brian Townsend's tenure.

A 44-year-old Carpentersville woman who was babysitting an 8-month-old in April who died of hypothermia when she allegedly left it unattended faces an involuntary manslaughter charge related to the infant's death.

Bail will remain at $100,000 for a Carpentersville babysitter charged in connection with the death of an 8-month-old boy left under a blanket for several hours.

A six-year veteran of the Kane County Sheriff's Office retired with honors Thursday, much to the dismay of his fellow deputies.

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