A man was taken into custody outside the McHenry County courthouse Wednesday by agents wearing masks and Homeland Security vests who witnesses said smashed the window of his car before detaining him.

A man has admitted to threatening children who were riding bikes at Crystal Lake South High School and telling them that he was going to shoot them.

An IDOT worker told a Shannon woman who admitted to hitting him with her car on a Marengo roadway that although his “life has changed forever,” he forgives her.

A Kewanee man admitted in McHenry County court that he killed a woman’s cat after physically abusing the woman in Harvard following the 2023 Super Bowl.

Charges have been dismissed against two Chicago men who were accused of scamming a Spring Grove couple out of $100,000, though one of the defendants paid back half the money, officials said.

A McHenry woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $22,000 from her child’s estate and was sentenced to 30 months of "second-chance probation" – a chance to wipe it clean from her record.

An Island Lake man had been accused of viewing thousands of videos depicting child sexual abuse that one investigator called among "the worst" he'd seen. The man pleaded guilty to one video and is headed to prison.

A man accused of threatening to kill Barrington Hills police officers in a video he posted on YouTube has been found unfit to stand trial.

Christian T. Page, 29, of Marengo, was charged following an investigation by the Yorkville Police Department Investigations Unit.