McHenry County Courthouse

The family of a 20-year-old Huntley man who was fatally struck by a car while performing utility work last year on a Huntley road received a record $11.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

A Woodstock man convicted twice of sexually assaulting a four-year-old child won another appeal and a shot at a third trial, in another twist in a case that included a judge overturning his own verdict.

A Cicero man who prosecutors said turned the Fox River Grove Jewel-Osco parking lot into an “open-air drug market” was found guilty Tuesday of selling cocaine there twice last year.

McHenry County prosecutors allege that a married McHenry man molested the 7-year-old child of a person he met on a dating application and was in a relationship with.

A felon pleaded guilty Monday to gun and drug charges related to a shooting in Harvard last year and was sentenced to six years in prison.

A McHenry County judge ruled that a convicted felon from Waukegan intended to kill a McHenry man when he shot at his “Batman” car three times.

A man accused of possessing and sharing images of children and toddlers “screaming and crying” as they were being sexually assaulted by adult males was detained in McHenry County jail Wednesday.

A Wonder Lake man has been accused of punching a 7-year-old with special needs in the stomach, slapping him and throwing him to the ground for wearing the wrong pants, a prosecutor said.

Marengo police arrested a man early Saturday who they said possessed six roosters, cockfighting equipment and nearly $10,000.

Calls came in for help at two separate crashes occurring in Marengo Saturday within a minute of each other, authorities said.

A Crystal Lake man accused of possessing images of children being bound and sexually assaulted previously worked as a volunteer wrestling coach for Deerfield High School, Township High School District 113 has confirmed.

A Woodstock man accused of entering a Crystal Lake home and threatening a woman with a crowbar has been sentenced to one day of conditional discharge.

At about midnight Friday authorities said there was a two-vehicle crash westbound on Interstate 90 just west of Harmony Road in McHenry County.

A former Wonder Lake man was sentenced to one year conditional discharge Friday for not providing medical care to his child when he was shot with a pellet gun by a sibling.

Alexander Evan Cohen of Crystal Lake is charged with possessing “several” videos of “deplorable” images showing children being bound, gagged and sexually assaulted, a prosecutor said Friday during the man’s initial appearance.

A former McHenry man accused of threatening to shoot two Marengo police officers with their own guns has been sentenced to one day conditional discharge and jail time served.

A Wonder Lake man who led police on chase by boat to the Wisconsin woods “like Rambo” has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl and was sentenced to four years in prison.

Marengo High School District 154 has settled to pay back over $241,000 to taxpayers who filed a lawsuit claiming the district levied an “excessive” amount in 2023 after losing another similar lawsuit.

Two people are accused of throwing a homemade ‘firebomb’ at a residence in Crystal Lake last month allegedly tied to a drug deal gone bad.

Robin Berry spent much of her law career defending juveniles. She uses those real-life scenarios from the courtroom in the classroom as a teacher and full-time department chair and instructor.

A Barrington acupuncturist accused of fondling a client in her Crystal Lake home has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and was sentenced to 50 hours public service and one year conditional discharge.

A McHenry man was running errands and “minding his own business” when a Waukegan man threw a bottle at his vehicle and then shot at the car with a gun, a prosecutor said at the man’s trial.

A Cary man is accused of possessing graphic images of children being sexually abused.

A man on pretrial release from McHenry County jail when charged last week in two separate cases accused of illegally possessing cocaine and a stolen pistol is now detained.

A second man has pleaded guilty in the beating and armed robbery of a teenager who thought he was going to a Wonder Lake location to buy $500 of marijuana.

McHenry County prosecutors say Cara Ullrich already got leniency in being allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge than murder for the overdose death of her son.

A three-day sentencing hearing began Wednesday for the mother of a 14-year-old boy who died in his father’s Richmond Township home after ingesting her fentanyl.

Two Woodstock men are detained after allegedly pulling a gun out on a person earlier this month on the Woodstock Square.

A veterans group, Rolling Thunder, has donated a POW/MIA Chair of Honor to the McHenry County sheriff's office, which will remain perpetually empty as a symbol of those who remain missing from previous conflicts.

Forty of 47 cats found living for months in an “unsanitary” U-Haul van in Island Lake had to be euthanized, officials said; their owners pleaded guilty to animal cruelty.

Eduardo Roman of Crystal Lake is accused of advertising drugs to minors online and selling drugs and guns out of his home, authorities say.

A man pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a McHenry County child younger than 13 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A McHenry County judge told Eric Ullrich Friday he showed no remorse and minimized his role in the fatal overdose of his son in his home near Richmond. Ullrich received a 12-year sentence but will serve much less time.

A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing nearly $750,000 in methamphetamine and fentanyl when he was arrested in a Crystal Lake motel parking lot last year.

The Trump and Truth Store in Huntley could soon be forced to vacate its space as it's facing eviction over sign violations. The owner says she has a right to advertise.

Jurors heard a recording Tuesday of a woman crying and saying “stop” when she said an Island Lake man sexually assaulted her late on Christmas Eve 2021.

A warrant was issued for a Sean Fitzpatrick, who failed to show up for his trial on charges of stealing cars from a Marengo home, court records show.

Marengo High School District 154 is court ordered to pay back nearly $364,000 to taxpayers filed a lawsuit claiming the school district levied an “excessive” amount in 2022, according to court documents.

An Island Lake man, who admitted along with a Glenview woman to cruelly housing 46 cats in a U-Haul truck for months, began serving his 40-day jail sentence last week.

A Wisconsin man was sentenced to six years in prison for passing off a fake cashier’s check for $11,900 when buying a car in McHenry.

Crystal Lake appoints its deputy city manager as city clerk for an automatically renewable four-year term once the term of the current elected clerk, who is facing felony charges, ends this month.

A man pleaded guilty and got jail and probation in the fatal overdose of a Hebron man, but the man's sister said justice wasn't done.

A Woodstock man and former McHenry County-area firefighter pleaded guilty Thursday to violating an order of protection and electronic harassment and got probation. He called and emailed threats to woman hundreds of times, authorities say.

A Woodstock man was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl, despite denying the allegations from the witness stand.

Prosecutors argued Eric Ullrich failed to act because he and his ex-wife didn't want to deal with child welfare officials again, and that their son would have lived had they acted sooner.

A former Lake in the Hills woman pleaded guilty after she was charged last year with obstructing police who were searching for couple accused of abducting their daughter.

Two men pleaded guilty last week in connection with a duffle bag filled with more than $400,000 of cocaine and fentanyl in a Super 8 Motel in McHenry last year.

A Loves Park woman has been sentenced to probation after she arranged to meet a man in his Woodstock home and then robbed him with an accomplice.

A Lake in the Hills man is charged with disseminating photographs of child sex abuse and of engaging in a sex act with a dog, court records say.

A Crystal Lake man has been charged with hitting and abusing a woman over 60 as a caregiver, according to court records.