St. Charles had 47 applicants for police chief and are down to two finalists but could decide to reopen the search.

Kane County residents should be wary of scams circulating recently in which victims reportedly receive phone calls notifying them of a missed jury duty summons or a warrant for their arrest. Those aren’t real calls, the Kane County Sheriff’s Office announced this week.

After a brief court appearance Thursday, a Kane County judge denied a prosecutor's request to keep a elderly suspect in jail instead of on pretrial release on electronic home monitoring.