A Sycamore man was charged Wednesday after police alleged he attempted to strangle a woman with a fan cord and threatened to kill her, according to DeKalb County court records.

A 51-year-old DeKalb man was charged Thursday after a minor told police that the man allegedly sexually assaulted them more than 100 times for multiple years and stomped the minor’s pet birds to death, according to court records.

A DeKalb man pleaded guilty Thursday to driving under the influence of drugs and causing a 2024 crash that killed sheriff’s deputy, veteran and mother Christina Musil. He's expected to be sentenced in August.

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Nathan P. Sweeney, 45, of DeKalb, pleaded guilty Thursday at the DeKalb County Courthouse, for driving under the influence on March 28, 2024, and causing a crash that killed DeKalb County sheriff‘s deputy Christina Musil.

It’ll be more than two years since Sycamore teenager Kaleb D. McCall was stabbed to death by the time the youth accused in the killing stands trial, a DeKalb County judge ruled Tuesday. The teen will be tried as an adult.

A Kane judge's $100,000-plus defamation lawsuit against a Geneva blogger stalls because process server can't find him. DeKalb judge approved alternative methods of service.

A man was sentenced to prison this week after he pleaded guilty to arson and sexual assault in two separate cases, court records show. Police said he intentionally set fires multiple times inside Suburban Apartments units in DeKalb throughout March 2024.

A DeKalb man charged in the fatal 2024 DUI crash that killed sheriff’s deputy Christina Musil got a judge’s permission Thursday to travel out of state to visit family before an expected plea in the case later this month.

A Northern Illinois University student has been charged in connection to a sexual assault reported at a DeKalb fraternity house in 2024, according to court records.