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The Streator girls basketball team fell in Thursday's senior night game, while Seneca's Alyssa Zellers set school records in an Irish win. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Glenbard West's gymnastics team won its ninth straight regional title while Willowbrook senior Naomi Campbell won the all-around at Thursday's Willowbrook Regional.

The Sterling and Dixon girls basketball teams are both still in the hunt for conference titles after wins, Polo beat Fulton, Morrison boys beat Amboy, Eastland beat Milledgeville and more in Thursday's Sauk Valley roundup.

The Marquette girls basketball cut a late 18-point third quarter disadvantage to Roanoke-Benson to three twice in the final minute of the fourth quarter in a 63-56 Tri-County Conference loss to the league champion Rockets at Bader Gymnasium on Thursday night.

Indian Creek and Hinckley-Big Rock won in the Little Ten Conference Tournament semifinals and will play in Friday's title game.

The combination of Brooklyn Schilb's 17 points and Alyse Price's 13-point, 12-rebound double-double helped St. Charles East get a lopsided 58-24 victory over Batavia to secure its first-ever DuKane Conference title.

Stevenson used a strong second half to beat a short-handed York on Thursday.

In a back-and-forth game Thursday, Joliet West's girls basketball team beat Romeoville 70-54.

Lucy Hynes scored a career-high 30 points in Lockport's win, Alyssa Zellers poured in 32 with nine 3-pointers for Seneca and more in Thursday's Herald-News sports roundup.

Minooka scored the first 13 points of the second half to erase a six-point halftime deficit and went on to defeat Plainfield North, 53-49.

Luke Robinson and Gavin Radmer each scored 19 points and Richmond-Burton's boys basketball team beat Big Foot 62-43 for its fourth win in a row. Plus more boys and girls hoops in Thursday's Northwest Herald roundup.

Princeton held Hall to four points in the third quarter, just nine in the second half, to score a 34-30 win over the rival Red Devils.

The Henry-Senachwine and St. Bede girls basketball teams earned conference wins and more basketball results in Thursday's NewsTribune roundup.

Newman's Three Rivers East contest was called in the third quarter as a Kewanee player was taken off the court on a stretcher Thursday night. The Comets won 54-29.

Staff has recommended transferring the general fund surplus to the village’s capital improvement fund. How the funds will be used would be determined during the 2026 budget process.

Illinois high school wrestling has entered its most exciting month of the season. Here are some of the key postseason storylines to watch for McHenry County-area teams this month.

McHenry senior guard Caleb Jett scored 26 points, including his 1,000th career point, to lead the Warriors past Crystal Lake South in a key Fox Valley Conference game on Jan. 31. Jett is the Northwest Herald Athlete of the Week.

Campton Hills paid one of its police officers about $62,500 not to come to work during the last 10 months because he tried to organize a union, his attorney said.

Oswego senior Aaliyah Roldan, who won the 120-pound title at the Hinsdale South Regional, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is her Q&A with Joshua Welge.

While the Trump Administration’s freeze on federal loans and grants faces an uncertain future as it works its way through the courts, the Yorkville School District 115 said they must be proactive to stave off any future funding headaches.

A month before an expected jury trial was set to convene, Timothy M. Doll, 31, pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering DeKalb teenager Gracie Sasso-Cleveland in May 2023. He's expected to be sentenced in April. He faces decades in prison.

With no active officers other than the police chief, the Hebron Village Board Monday night approved a contract with the McHenry County Sheriff's Office during a testy, sometimes raucous meeting.

Morrison senior Camryn Veltrop recently passed her older sister Shelby as the program's all-time leading rebounder and set the free throw record. Camryn is also Morrison's all-time leading scorer, boys or girls, after passing Rod Bush.

Luke Robinson scored a game-high 20 points, Ryan Wisniewski hit two clutch shots, and Richmond-Burton's boys basketball team got back in the Kishwaukee River Conference race with a 57-48 win over Woodstock on Wednesday night.

Joliet has national champion in boxing in Wednesday's roundup.

Johnsburg boys basketball knocked in 15 3-pointers in a 90-41 win over Woodstock North while the Huntley girls basketball team stayed undefeated on the season with a win Wednesday. Plus more boys and girls basketball and boys swimming scores.

Serena's girls basketball team suffered a rare loss on a light Wednesday night of local sport in The Times area.

The NIU women picked up a win over Kent State while the G-K girls lost to Plano.

The women were accused of entering a home in the 800 block of West Seventh Street in Sterling, punching a man in the face and pulling a woman's hair.

Football players can sign financial aid agreements or letters of intent with NCAA Division I and II schools starting Wednesday, the first day of the regular signing period. In addition to football, here are Class of 2025 commitments for all sports in the McHenry County area.

Sycamore City Council’s first meeting of the month was over in less than 7 minutes Monday. Here’s everything they accomplished in that time.

Most local fire departments were busy in 2024, with some reporting calls climbed by more than half. But was the spike in activity because of more structure fires?

Wiork on the NVA truck terminal expansion in Crystal Lake has started, despite the City Council denying an earlier rezoning request for the property off Sands Road.

Marengo is on path to win its third straight Kishwaukee River Conference title, Crystal Lake Central junior Ruby Macke has a career night, Harvard is having its best season since the 1990s and more in this week's Northwest Herald girls basketball notes.

Lyons' Emma O’Brien and York’s Anna Filosa both reached 1,000 career points during Tuesday's West Suburban Conference Silver Division battle in Elmhurst. The Lions came out on top 58-35.

Seneca senior guard Paxton Giertz exploded for a career-high 43 points on Tuesday, including a school record 10 3-pointers, while Streator suffered its first Illinois Central Eight Conference loss. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Freddy Hassan reached 1,000 career points for Kaneland, the DeKalb girls picked up a win, the NIU men lost and more in Tuesday's Daily Chronicle sports roundup.

Lockport put itself in position to capture its first SWSC girls basketball championship by outlasting Lincoln-Way West 51-47 in overtime on Tuesday evening at Lockport.

Senior forward Darius Harrington became Dixon's new all-time leading scorer after passing Beau Bailey with a 25-point performance in a 62-40 win over Oregon on Tuesday at the Blackhawk Center.

The Mendota boys basketball team overcame a 12-point deficit to beat Hall and more basketball and swimming results in Tuesday's NewsTribune roundup.

Caleb Jett scored nine of his game-high 27 points in overtime, and McHenry stayed undefeated in the Fox Valley Conference with a 64-57 win over Burlington Central on Tuesday night.

The Morris boys basketball team used an 11-0 run at the end of the third quarter and into the fourth to grab the lead against Ottawa, then held on for a 42-38 Interstate 8 Conference victory at Kingman Gymnasium on Tuesday night.

Eddie Jones eclipsed 1,000 career points in an Amboy win, Sterling and Eastland won, Fulton boys beat Morrison, Newman girls fell, Eastland beat Rock Falls and more in Tuesday's Sauk Valley roundup.

Senior Nolan Roper scored Jacobs' first nine third-quarter points and finished with 20 as the Golden Eagles caught fire down the stretch and pulled out a 58-49 win against Cary-Grove on Tuesday.

Highly-touted freshman Cole Kelly came two assists short of a triple double and David Taiwo scored 30 points, as visiting Neuqua Valley started fast and pulled away from Yorkville Christian late for a 94-64 nonconference win.

The La Salle-Peru girls basketball team rallied from a nine-point deficit in the second half only to lose 44-41 to Geneseo on a late 3-pointer.

The Tigers started hot and only got hotter as the game went on. Three players finished in double figures and the clock ran the whole fourth quarter as Plainfield North delivered a massive statement, beating Oswego East 69-42.

Thea Scheuer won the all-around title as Prairie Ridge co-op’s gymnastics team captured the four-team regional championship at Stevenson. Richmond-Burton girls basketball earned its first KRC win of the season, and more in Tuesday’s Northwest Herald sports roundup.

Paxton Giertz hit a school-record 10 3-pointers and scored a career-high 43 points to lead Seneca past Beecher, while Bolingbook got 40 points from Davion Thompson in a win over Oswego. That and more in Tuesday's Herald-News Roundup

Rock Falls finished strong in a 63-56 BNC win over Winnebago on senior night as Ryken Howard and Kuitim Heald each scored 21 points and Cole Mulnix added 14 off the bench. The Rockets have won six straight games.