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Six Round Lake Middle School students were hospitalized Wednesday morning after apparently ingesting THC gummies.

A Vernon Hills man convicted in a DUI crash that killed two people on New Year’s Day in 2005 has pleaded guilty to driving drunk last November when, authorities said, he caused a crash near McHenry.

A Lake County Sheriff’s Office squad car hit a large utility pole near Woodstock late Monday while transporting someone to McHenry County Jail, according to authorities.

An Antioch man is accused of reckless discharge of a firearm, told officers he shot in air because boaters came onto his pond.

A Lake County felon was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for unlawfully possessing a pistol and illicit drugs found during a traffic stop in McHenry.

A 42-year-old Fox Lake man has been charged with misdemeanor domestic battery involving a 7-year-old boy who reached out to school counselor, police said.

A Cary man is charged with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a pedestrian near Barrington Monday night, authorities said.

The McHenry County Coroner identified a Fox Lake man who had died after being pulled from his condominium that caught fire early Monday morning.

A Fox Lake man died after his condominium caught fire early Monday morning.


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