Lake and McHenry County Scanner is a local breaking news website covering issues that matter such as shootings, stabbings, house fires, kidnappings, car accidents, and more around Lake County and McHenry County.
The activist and founder of the Lake County Black Lives Matter chapter has been charged for allegedly threatening an officer and kicking ...
A GoFundMe started for a family of four who lost everything in a house fire in Fox Lake has raised several thousand dollars.
A 31-year-old man is accused of killing his ex-wife inside a vehicle in Waukegan Sunday morning.
Police officers helped an elderly couple out of a house fire and the two were hospitalized in serious condition Tuesday evening in Harvard.
“We must make Lake County safer and our courthouse fairer."
The Harvard man admitted to delivering fentanyl-laced heroin to another man, prosecutors said. That man overdosed, died.
Eloy Cardoso-Ortiz, 46, is accused of possessing a video file that showed a boy, who appeared to be under 13 years old, being raped.
A McHenry County judge found Deon Duff of Maywood guilty on felony charges following a one-day bench trial.
The department received more than 3,000 valentines for the nearly 600 senior residents.
A woman lost control and veered into the northbound lane early Friday, striking a commercial garbage truck head-on.
Two women and a man have been charged after allegedly spray-painting obscenities onto a school and park in Richmond last week.
Rodney W. Carroll, 34, of the 1400 block of Millbrook Drive in Algonquin, was indicted by a grand jury on on two counts of domestic battery.
A Harvard man pleaded guilty to delivering fentanyl-laced heroin to another man, causing his 2019 death.
Eric Rinehart said his top priority is to eliminate systemic racism in the justice system and make Lake County safer.
A criminal complaint filed in McHenry County court alleges a 46-year-old man possessed graphic video of a boy under the age of 13.
A temporary COVID-19 vaccination clinic for senior citizens who live in North Chicago and Waukegan opened Monday morning.
Former Chicago Mustangs player Luis A. Sandoval-Oliva was charged with possession, driving with a suspended license and without insurance.
Julian M. Torres died on Feb. 8 in a vehicle crash in Huntley.
Formerly of Antioch, Rittenhouse was arrested for shooting and killing two people, injuring a third, during civil unrest in Kenosha.
10 restaurants in Lake County were cited and nine of them were fined for violating the state’s second indoor dining ban.
