A St. Charles man is charged with attempted murder after police say he charged at officers with a knife, resulting in officers discharging a Taser and a gun at him Friday night.

A Kane County judge agreed with prosecutors that a man accused of starting an apartment complex fire in Carpentersville Nov. 29 that displaced 24 families should remain in jail and not have pretrial release.

Police said a Geneva man sat at an Elburn traffic light for at least 30 minutes before he was charged with DUI.

A West Dundee man accused of using Facebook Messenger to solicit a 14-year-old Fox River Grove child to perform a sex act has been sentenced to prison for four years, court records show.

A Batavia person reported losing $648,000 in a Bitcoin investment involving someone met through a dating app claiming to be a Naperville investor, police reports show.

Officers were called to a Batavia home at 5:44 p.m. Friday after a resident reported seeing two unknown men inside the house while remotely monitoring a home surveillance system, Batavia police said.

An Aurora man has been charged with four felonies following an alleged home invasion in which a female resident and a male juvenile were battered by an intruder, authorities said.

An Aurora man has been charged with five felonies related to a firearm and ammunition allegedly found in his car during a traffic stop and which he was not legally allowed to own, police said.

An Oswego man was charged in Kane County with disseminating and possessing child sexual abuse images.