Amanda Marrazzo

Mark Alex doesn't deny he attacked his wife in her Crystal Lake apartment, but his lawyer said he wasn't trying to kill her and isn't guilty of attempted murder.

A doctor said that a 14-year-old boy would have lived had his parents called 911 after finding him unresponsive in his dad’s home near Richmond and suspected he had ingested his mother’s fentanyl and xylazine.

A Woodstock man who had worked as a firefighter in McHenry County pleaded not guilty to allegations he stalked and harassed a woman in violation of an order of protection.

A Spring Grove man admitted Tuesday he stole multiple firearms from a Harvard home including automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns.

A Crystal Lake lawyer defrauded investors out of about $140,000 in a cryptocurrency scam and his license has been suspended, according to official documents.

A Crystal Lake man accused of setting campaign signs on fire the morning polls opened in the 2022 primary election pleaded guilty Tuesday to striking a corrections officer in McHenry County jail.

A felon with a “lengthy criminal history” pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful possession of cocaine and was sentenced to 61/2 years in prison.

A former Woodstock man pleaded guilty Monday to an attempted Harvard home invasion and was sentenced to four years in prison.

A former employee of Woodman's Markets in Lakemoor says the grocer violated her rights by firing her for time off she had approved while for breast cancer surgery.

Richard Rowland of Crystal Lake continued to claim his innocence of child sex assault, but was sentenced to 36 years in prison. A statement from the victim, read in cout, said he claimed his actions were “in the name of the Lord.”

An Elgin man pleaded guilty Friday to possessing more than two kilos of heroin found inside a lunchbox during a traffic stop in Algonquin and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

A Woodstock man has admitted to bruising a 3-year-old child, and in a separate case, driving under the influence of alcohol.

In less than an hour Wednesday a jury convicted a man of arson for setting fire inside his father’s Lakewood home despite Connor Kirkpatrick saying he was only trying to take his life.

A Woodstock man with a past conviction for burglary to a vehicle pleaded guilty Monday to residential burglary.

Connor Kirkpatrick, accused of setting fire to his father’s Lakewood home, said he was in so much “unbearable” pain that from injuries he suffered when he crashed his car into a Crystal Lake home.