A Richmond man who was accused of driving drunk while under the legal drinking age, and causing a crash that flipped his truck and sent him and his passenger to the hospital, has pleaded guilty.

A Batavia man has been sentenced to jail and probation after being found guilty of DUI causing a crash in McHenry County, in which authorities said his blood-alcohol content measured five times the legal limit.

A woman who had to be helped to the witness stand described the brain damage and other injuries she suffered when she was randomly beaten in a McHenry park by man who said he's "angel of death."

Mark Cook spent almost 40 years as the McHenry County public defender. He got a surprise sendoff Friday from courthouse colleagues and family.

A Wonder Lake man pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of sexually abusing a child and avoided a lengthy prison sentence, according to court records.

A Cary man twice convicted of attempted murder in Cook County, and acquitted of murder as a teen in 1980, has turned himself in after being wanted on a sixth alleged offense of drunk driving.

The attempted murder trial is set to begin Thursday for a man accused in a violent attack on a woman in a McHenry park that authorities said was unprovoked; he also allegedly beat a man who tried to intervene.

A Crystal Lake man who a judge said advertised and sold drugs on social media admitted Wednesday to selling cocaine and ecstasy and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

A Woodstock 18-year-old, on pretrial release for allegedly beating a teen at the Algonquin Walmart, was accused of threatening to shoot and kill a man and his baby, according to court records.

The estate of a passenger killed in a UTV crash last year near Hebron received a $1 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the estate of the UTV driver.

A Crystal Lake man, who is set to face a 4½-year prison sentence for a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme next month, was able to push his local case accusing him of defrauding a McHenry veterans’ association to March.

In a case involving authorities both locally and in North Carolina, a Huntley man is accused of sexually abusing a child, and police said they have “identified other potential juvenile victims.”

A Cary man who years ago was convicted of attempted murder, and prior to that acquitted of murder as a teen, has been charged with a sixth DUI, according to court records.

A longtime McHenry County assistant public defender has been appointed as the new head of the office, replacing the public defender who's soon to retire after 40 years on the job.

A Harvard man was accused of sharing illegal images of children while he awaits trial on a charge that he followed two girls into stores in Crystal Lake.

A Lake County man with a past felony conviction was found guilty of gun and drug charges after authorities said he hid a Glock pistol in the back of a squad car during a McHenry traffic stop.

A Chicago man was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for trying to pass a counterfeit $100 bill at Chick-fil-A in Crystal Lake.

McHenry County got word from the Trump administration this week that a federal grant vital to its drug court was terminated. A day later word came just as suddenly that the grant was reinstated.

McHenry County's highly touted Drug Court received word of a $1M funding cut from the federal government, calling the program's future into question. By the end of the day widespread cuts were reportedly reversed.

A man involved in a deadly Harvard stabbing 20 years ago fled to Mexico. Authorities knew his whereabouts for years before he was arrested, though he once topped McHenry's most wanted list.

An attempted murder charge against a Lake in the Hills man was dismissed in exchange for a guilty plea to aggravated domestic battery in case where police tried for about 90 minutes to make contact.

A man knocked on the door of a 89-year-old Crystal Lake woman, claimed to make home repairs and then stole $15,000 from her, authorities allege.

Edwin Garcia, 21, of Lake in the Hills is charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer; authorities said he fled without his lights or and didn't have valid plates.

A third customer has sued Fun City Adventure Park in Algonquin last year has filed a civil lawsuit seeking more than $50,000 claiming, like the others, that she was injured after jumping into a foam pit.

A former McHenry man and registered sex offender is accused in Arkansas of kidnapping, sexually assaulting a child and threatening her with a firearm, according authorities there.

As a Marengo woman awaits adjudication in a fifth drunken-driving case from 2024, she has been charged with DUI again, according to court records.

Charles Gozzola, who went to prison for killing his wife in 2000 and was convicted last year of domestic violence, was denied his attempt to expunge a 2024 domestic battery case for which he was acquitted.

With about 30 observers in the courtroom and on Zoom, a former Wonder Lake ski team instructor and grocery store owner admitted Tuesday to sexually abusing a child in the mid-1990s.

A Crystal Lake officer was the subject of an internal investigation after he misplaced a personal weapon, which was picked up by a convicted felon, authorities said. Here is the result of the investigation of the officer.

An Antioch man was fined $300 for emitting black smoke called “rolling coal” from his pickup truck at protestors during an anti-Trump rally in McHenry last year.

Authorities said a man is in a medically induced coma and may lose his eye from a fight outside a bar in McHenry on New Year’s Eve, for which a local man has been charged.

From county fair cows to pet emus, here are some of our favorite McHenry County-area animal pictures of 2025 from Shaw Local staff and contributors.

A Woodstock woman has been accused of arson in a fire that broke out at the local Walmart on New Year’s Eve.

Charges have been upgraded to aggravated arson against a 21-year-old woman who is accused of intentionally setting a fire in Walmart in Woodstock.

A man “maliciously attacked” a woman in a gas station in Woodstock and said he intended to kill her, police said.

Crystal Lake police have arrested a man who they say was drunk while driving a damaged Cadillac and possessing a stolen pistol, a scale and box coated with cocaine.

Two men face felony charges that they “knowingly misrepresenting” the cost of repairing the driveway of an 87-year-old Crystal Lake homeowner.

A distillery and bar in Cary known for its unique spirit options has permanently closed after co-owners lock horns in years-long legal battles.

A Rockford man sought by Harvard police since September is in custody amid allegations that he shoved a pistol into a teen’s torso during an argument at a Taco Bell.

An Indiana man accused of sexually assaulting a Huntley woman while she slept in 2022 has been taken into custody and detained pretrial in McHenry County jail.

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.

James R. Gibbons of Marengo man was ordered to be held in jail on charges of possessing images depicting child sexual abuse. He's known for giving history presentations across northern Illinois.

A man who is accused of threatening on YouTube videos to shoot Barrington Hills police officers – and who had been deemed unfit to stand trial – has been restored to fitness, a McHenry County judge has ruled.

Funeral arrangements have been set for Santina Perri, an Itasca woman who was killed near Harvard, allegedly by her husband of almost 50 years.

Authorities confirmed Wednesday that the woman an Itasca man is accused of shooting dead near Harvard was his wife.

A man accused of fatally shooting his wife near Harvard did not dispute the state’s order Thursday to detain him in McHenry County jail while he awaits trial.

McHenry County jail detainees deemed unfit to stand trial are receiving specialized psychiatric care while waiting for an open bed in a mental health facility.

A 75-year-old Itasca man has been charged in the shooting death of a woman Saturday near Harvard, police said. The man also sustained a self-inflicted wound, according to authorities.

A Wisconsin man who bought the rifle Kyle Rittenhouse used when he was accused of shooting three people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020 has been charged in an armed robbery in Harvard.

Three Wisconsin men are charged with armed robbery after allegedly stealing jewelry at gunpoint from two people in the parking lot of Harvard High School after arranging to buy jewelry from them.