A Barrington Hills man with two pending cases involving alleged threats to police, judges and a probation officer has been ordered to be held in McHenry County jail.

A Plainfield Township man has pleaded guilty to the 2019 drug-induced homicide of a 26-year-old man. He was sentenced to serve 75% of a 6.5-year prison sentence.

For the year 2025 alone, the Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center reports that the financial loss to the public is more than $20 billion. More often than not the victims are 60 years and older.

Alec H. Rutherford, 33, appeared in Ogle County court Wednesday morning and pleaded not guilty to four felony charges stemming from a June 4 incident at his rural home.

Harley R. Delander, 28, of Dixon, is charged with intimidation/physical harm, a Class 3 felony; and one count each of stalking/cause fear for safety and cyberstalking/cause person to fear, both Class 4 felonies, court records show.

Hamza Khatatbeh, 17, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Wednesday, nearly three years after he stabbed Sycamore teenager Kaleb McCall to death in a bank parking lot.

Alejandro Cota, who was charged in the horrific post-Christmas stabbing deaths of a mother and her 13-year-old son in 2024, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and accepted a life sentence in prison, officials announced in a news release.

Hamza Khatatbeh, 17, was sentenced to 17 years for second-degree murder Wednesday by DeKalb County Associate Judge Stephanie Klein, for the 2023 fatal stabbing of Sycamore 17-year-old Kaleb McCall.

The charges stem from a drug investigation that the Dixon Police Department began several months ago, according to police.

Police announced charges Tuesday against a South Elgin man accused of barricading himself inside a bedroom and threatening to shoot officers who had attempted to take him into custody on multiple felony warrants.

A Fox River Grove man has admitted to attempting to get a child’s guardian to send him lewd photos of the child and to possessing obscene materials.

Jury trials will remain on hold in Whiteside County after University of Chicago mathematicians’ work, though not complete, points to irregularities in how names surface for jury duty, a Whiteside County judge ruled Tuesday

A federal judge will review the grand jury minutes in a former Joliet police officer’s drug trafficking case at the request of his attorneys following the fallout from the unrelated “Broadview 6” case.

Alec H. Rutherford, 33, was taken into custody following a June 4 incident at his home north of Oregon.

A Kankakee man charged with killing a 15-year-old boy in June 2021 will now be facing federal charges.

An Illinois appellate court has upheld the 67-year prison sentence imposed on a Dixon man convicted of sexually assaulting and abusing a child

A Plato Township man, already on probation after pleading guilty to felony aggravated domestic battery in 2024, has been charged in a new domestic battery allegation, court records show.

A Woodstock man who crashed his car into a townhouse had just fled from a violent encounter with a woman who he allegedly punched while she was holding a toddler, authorities say.

DeKalb police arrested a Montgomery man recently after a woman told them he sexually abused her while delivering a couch to her apartment, according to records filed in DeKalb County court.

The Illinois State Police’s Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group (KAMEG) arrested 58-year-old Douglas P. Moore, of Kankakee, on multiple charges Friday.

University of Chicago mathematicians reviewed jury selection process selection methods over the weekend to determine if they are randomized. A report on their findings is expected by Tuesday.

A Joliet convicted felon accused of illegally possessing a loaded firearm will remain in jail until at least his next court date, prosecutors said

An Aurora man has been charged with first-degree murder after police said he fatally injured a 57-year-old man in an altercation near a downtown church in Aurora.

A Chicago man accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and forcibly kidnapping will remain in prison until at least his next court date, prosecutors said

The Morris Police and Fire Protection District responded to the 200 block of Gore Road Sunday night after a man called reporting to have stabbed another during an altercation.

A Woodridge man will remain in jail until at least his next court appearance after allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy, prosecutors said

The fire was reported at 5:18 a.m. Sunday. The Autobahn Country Club is in the 3400 block of CenterPoint Way.

A Crystal Lake man who was accused of taping bags of methamphetamine to his body and bringing some into McHenry County jail has pleaded guilty to a possession charge.

Jeffrey E. Phillips, 46, was denied pretrial release Wednesday, June 3 following a detention hearing.

A Carpentersville police officer fatally shot a person seen shooting at a person outside a restaurant early Saturday morning in Carpentersville, officials report.

A DeKalb man faces multiple felony charges after police allege he sexually abused a teenager and exchanged illegal lewd photographs with them on Snapchat, court records show.

A man awaiting trial on charges that he threatened to shoot Barrington Hills police officers is now accused of threatening to harm a McHenry County judge and probation officer.

A Rock Falls man who police say threw a pregnant woman to the ground Wednesday is facing felony aggravated battery, fleeing, and weapon charges.

One of two Woodstock teens charged last year with beating up a 15-year-old at Walmart in Algonquin has pleaded guilty to a lesser offense.

Will County Judge Carmen Goodman made the ruling during a hearing on Friday in a juvenile courtroom at River Valley. The teenager's next hearing is set for June 25.

Transcripts from Xandria Harris’ first attempt of a trial earlier this year have been received by her attorney.

Ogle County sheriff's deputies, the Winnebago County bomb squad, and the ATF were called Thursday night to a rural subdivision north of Oregon.

During the investigation, Joliet police officers recovered spent shell casings in the area and discovered three unoccupied vehicles and a nearby building had been struck by gunfire, a police spokesman said.

Will County Judge Amy Christiansen heard arguments on whether she should allow the pretrial release of Jae’vion Smith, 17, who is charged as an adult with the first-degree murder of Javion Bailey, 17.

Judge grants prosecutors’ objection to expert testimony from veterinarians, but rules defense attorneys are free to call the civilians they want to testify.

After hearing repeated concerns from the public regarding its Flock Safety network, the Sterling City Council and the Sterling Police Department are set to review how their cameras are used.

An elderly man sentenced to prison for a gun-related charge has asked the court for probation instead, arguing that he will lose his Social Security in prison, and that means his wife could lose their home.

A Whiteside County judge ruled Wednesday that enough evidence exists for prosecutors to proceed with a meth trafficking case filed last month against a Morrison man

A Crystal Lake teen who is a globally ranked skateboarder is accused of striking a person with a skateboard, causing “significant injuries,” including a brain bleed, at the downtown Crystal Lake train station, according to authorities.

The Illinois Attorney General’s Office deemed a Joliet attorney’s constitutional challenge to forfeiture law a non-issue after prosecutors dropped the case that prompted the challenge.

Two suspects broke into a Batavia liquor store shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday and stole an unknown amount of cash and liquor, police said in a news release.

A Lake in the Hills man who had worked as a mentor for McHenry County jail inmates admitted Wednesday that he sexually assaulted a child.

A man from Lake in the Hills was charged with his eighth DUI following seven convictions after a head-on crash in Kane County that injured six passengers in a minivan, authorities said.

A Joliet Township man is accused of turning on red-and-blue flashing lights on a personal vehicle and trying to enter the Will County jail while posing as a federal corrections employee, police said.

An Indiana man may serve about a year and eighth months for driving drunk in a 2023 crash that led to a woman’s death and caused serious injuries to other passengers.