Authorities say an 83-year-old man from Johnsburg has died after a three-vehicle crash that resulted in heavy damage and shut down part of Route 12 in Fox Lake.

Three people were arrested and guns were recovered after a Lake County sheriff's deputy was struck by a car fleeing a traffic stop, leading to a high-speed police pursuit in Wisconsin.

Six dogs are feared to be dead and four others were rescued after an extra-alarm fire fully engulfed a large house near Woodstock Friday morning, fire officials said. The Woodstock Fire/Rescue ...

NASA announced that James Lovell, the famed commander of the Apollo 13 moon mission who also was a pilot for Apollo 8, died at age 97 in Lake Forest on Thursday.

Detectives have arrested a man after they found homemade explosives and over 70 brand-new appliances that were stolen from a warehouse during a search warrant near Barrington.

A driver of a boat was ejected into the water and hospitalized in the ICU during a drag boat race event on Grass Lake at Blarney Island near Antioch Thursday evening.

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The coroner has released the identity of a U.S. Navy recruit who died after being shot at a gun range at Naval Station Great ...

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter were both pulled unresponsive and revived after nearly drowning in Lake Michigan at Illinois Beach State Park near Zion Thursday afternoon.

A McHenry man has been arrested after investigators say they found him possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material online following an investigation.

A false report of a man who shot a woman at a home in Lake in the Hills prompted a heavy police response Wednesday evening as police investigate who made the call.

Prosecutors say a man repeatedly punched a woman in the face, causing her to lose consciousness, and then cut another woman with a knife before running over the first victim with his car in North ...