Carpentersville

A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a 2016 armed robbery, during which another suspect was shot and killed by a hostage who had freed themselves inside of the store.

Saul Hernandez has been driving for UPS for 20 years, but he doesn’t get to interact with customers often. That changed last week when he came across something he’d never experienced in Carpentersville: a woman on the ground in a pool of her own blood. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell shares what he did next.

Saul Hernandez has been driving for the United Parcel Service for 20 years. His route is mostly residential, but he doesn’t get to interact with customers often. “I usually leave the package and go,” said Hernandez. That changed last week when he came across something he’d never experienced in Carpentersville he said. A woman was on the ground in...

A former teacher in Carpentersville was sentenced to a decade in prison for sexually assaulting two of her former students. Lindsey P. Anderson, 31, pleaded guilty to felony counts of criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse for crimes prosecutors said she committed between July 2013 and May 2015. While Anderson’s victims were not students of hers when the…

The 2010s were a difficult decade for retail, and this one is starting off on similar footing with Macy’s decision to close their Spring Hill Mall store in West Dundee.  The company says closing a store is always difficult, but “Macy’s is proud to have served the Dundee community over the past 40 years.” A clearance sale will begin...

A man and a woman were arrested after leading police on a chase in a stolen SUV Thursday in the northwest suburbs. Kane County authorities were alerted at 2:05 a.m. about police in neighboring McHenry County pursuing a Hyundai Santa Fe that was reported stolen six days earlier in Rockford, according to a statement from the Kane County sheriff’s...

A former Carpentersville substitute teacher and youth soccer coach was sentenced to 112 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child he knew.

Carpentersville officials are investigating a possible shooting that ensued, involving police officers Tuesday afternoon.

A northwest suburban Carpentersville man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for holding a gun to a woman’s head in 2015 and calling her children to come watch.

A Chicago man pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually abusing two children in northwest suburban Carpentersville.

A man police believe is responsible for a terrifying home invasion that left a teenage brother and sister stabbed in suburban Sleepy Hollow was ordered held without bond Thursday.

Two people in their late teens were stabbed during a home invasion Monday in Kane County, police said.

A 73-year-old Carpentersville man was charged Saturday with first-degree murder after stabbing a woman—he claims was a close friend—to death in 2011.

Two men have been charged after a month-long investigation conducted by authorities that led to a seizure of approximately 16 kilos of suspected cocaine—an estimated street value of $512,000, authorities said.

Students at Lyons Township High School and across the country have been planning for weeks in preparation for next week’s student walkout over gun laws–and school administrators across the area say safety must come first.

Four people have pleaded guilty in the 2016 kidnapping of a woman in northwest suburban Elgin.

An Olympic ice skater and famed speedskating medalist sit down at a table for dinner…What do they talk about? Apparently, anything but home.