Lake County Coroner's office

Authorities in suburban Lake County say that they are launching an investigation after two patients went missing from the same hospital, with one of those patients later passing away after being found unresponsive in a pond near the facility.

Authorities in suburban Lake County say that they are launching an investigation after two patients went missing from the same hospital, with one of those patients later passing away after being found unresponsive in a pond near the facility. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the story.

Authorities say that a McHenry man suffered a ‘medical event’ and died after crashing his car into a tree in suburban Wauconda on Friday. According to autopsy results released Tuesday, 54-year-old Michael Gaul was driving on West Neville Road on Jan. 3 at approximately 11:40 a.m. when he suffered the medical emergency. Gaul then crashed his car into a tree….

Officials are asking for the public’s help to identify a teen who was found dead in Gary, Indiana.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned that the driver blamed for causing the death of an Illinois State Trooper three weeks ago, had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system at the time of the crash.

Authorities gave an update Wednesday in the search for a 30-year-old missing Indiana mother.

Human remains found in a pond in northwestern Indiana may belong to a missing mother who disappeared last month while heading to her first day of work at a Panera Bread restaurant, authorities said.

A man was struck and killed by a pickup truck Sunday afternoon in a Home Deport parking lot in northwest suburban McHenry.

An Illinois state trooper has died after being involved in a head-on crash on I-94 westbound near Libertyville early Saturday morning.

A woman was found strangled Saturday morning at a motel in north suburban Waukegan.

The father of two Indiana boys who drowned in a river has pleaded not guilty to two counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in death.

A father is in custody after two young boys died as rescuers pulled them out of the Kankakee River in northwest Indiana Tuesday.

An 83-year-old man has been charged with fatally shooting an attorney who previously served as a northwest Indiana judge.

A motorcyclist died after going off the road and striking a tree Friday morning in north suburban Antioch Township.

The body of a 16-year-old boy was pulled from Lake Michigan Sunday morning in north suburban Waukegan after he drowned, according to authorities.

A mother of three children was killed in a crash Wednesday afternoon in north suburban Volo.