Child pornography and sexual assault charges have been filed against a man arrested after barricading himself inside a bathroom with a knife Friday in northwest suburban Crystal Lake. Matthew Reder, 24, of McHenry, is charged with two felony counts each of predatory criminal sexual assault, production of child pornography and possession of child pornography, according to a statement from Crystal…

Four men have been arrested in McHenry County in an undercover sex trafficking sting. The men were each charged with soliciting a sex act in Crystal Lake, the McHenry County state’s attorney’s office said Friday in a statement. The undercover sting operation was part of the National Johns Suppression Initiative, spearheaded by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart in 2011....

A convicted arsonist on parole was sentenced to 12 years in prison for lighting a car on fire last year in a garage attached to a U.S. Post Office in far northwest suburban Woodstock. James Durkee, 55, entered a guilty plea to a count of arson for the Nov. 18, 2019 incident, the McHenry County state’s attorney’s office said in…

Sky 5 is over the scene of a crash involving a truck slamming into a suburban Starbucks on Thursday.

First responders are stunned at the devastation after a truck slammed into a suburban Starbucks, injuring five people. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has the story.

Five people were injured after a truck slammed into a Starbucks in suburban McHenry on Thursday evening, according to police.

A northwest suburban middle school teacher and former wrestling coach has been accused of possessing and distributing child pornography. Scott E. Pollack, 45, is charged with nine counts of dissemination of child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of unauthorized video recording, all felonies, according to Lake in the Hills police and the Illinois attorney…

The McHenry County state’s attorney’s office has expunged more than a thousand low-level pot convictions for offenses now considered legal in Illinois. State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally announced Monday that he filed a motion to vacate or expunge misdemeanor cannabis delivery convictions for 1,877 people, the state’s attorney’s office said in a statement. Kenneally said his office filed the motion...

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...

Two people were arrested for aggravated animal cruelty after sheriffs deputies in suburban McHenry County found two dead miniature horses on a property, according to the non-profit Hooved Animal Rescue & Protection Society.

Hold onto your hats. Chicago’s weekend weather forecast gives literal meaning to the term “windy city.”

A woman from McHenry County claims pollution from metal processing plants in her hometown of Union, Illinois, are to blame for her Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma diagnosis, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

Illinois officials have suspended the law license of a suburban Chicago man charged in the beating death of his 5-year-old son. The state’s Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission disclosed Monday the license of 60-year-old Andrew Freund of Crystal Lake will remain on suspension until further ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court. He’s awaiting trial on charges he murdered his 5-year-old...

A Mexican man in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody died Tuesday at a Chicago-area hospital, officials said.

Over 4,600 pets were adopted at Chicago-area animal shelters since late July as part of NBC and Telemundo’s Clear the Shelters initiative, and more than 1,600 were adopted on Saturday alone.

A paternity test has determined that a suburban Chicago man charged in the beating death of his 5-year-old son is not the biological father of the infant born to his son’s mother about a month after the couple’s arrest on first-degree murder charges.

For many who lived nearby, the house at 94 Dole Avenue was simply a home on a quiet Crystal Lake block. But the death of a young child earlier this year revealed the alleged horrors that went on inside the dwelling, which will now forever be known as the home where AJ Freund died.