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Dawn Udesen recalled how her husband Jimmy remained hopeful despite "devastating" medical news. He was a McHenry County corrections officer and youth baseball coach.

A California who man admitted Thursday to scamming a Crystal Lake woman out of $30,000 was sentenced to two years conditional discharge and ordered to pay her back.

A Harvard man was sentenced to six years in prison after police found baggies of fentanyl and cocaine hidden in an air duct in his bedroom last year.

Local authorities confirmed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was in Crystal Lake Tuesday, but what they were investigating and other details are unknown.

Three men were arrested on drug charges in a Cary home Monday night after police conducted a search warrant, officials report.

A man was taken to Javon Bea Hospital-Riverside after a single-vehicle crash Saturday near Marengo.

A Spring Grove man was killed and two others were injured Friday evening in a crash.

The teen driver of involved in an October crash near Woodstock that killed him and two others tested positive for marijuana, according to toxicology reports released by the McHenry County Coroner Michael Rein.

McHenry County Sheriff Robb Tadelman says state law limits his office’s ability to work with ICE on the mass deportations that President-elect Donald Trump has promised.

State seizes an estimated $1 million in cash and property in 2022 drug bust and money laundering case

Take a look back at some of the biggest news stories of 2024 in the McHenry County area.

Here’s a look at the 24 most-read stories in the Northwest Herald online in 2024.

A Wood Dale man is charged with speeding through a fatal crash scene in McHenry County, according to court records.

About 250 McHenry County children got the chance to Shop with a Cop Sunday.

A McHenry woman convicted in 2018 of embezzling nearly $67,000 from a youth sporting association now is accused of stealing more than $200,000 from a Woodstock business where she worked.

A man was airlifted following a Saturday morning crash near Harvard, a Harvard Fire Protection District spokesman said.

The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office issued 238 citations during the recent Halloween “Click It or Ticket” enforcement period, including 47 tickets for seat belt violations.

One of two men charged last year with having defaced handguns and large-capacity magazines in their Lake in the Hills home, pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawfully possessing a firearm while being younger than 21 and was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison.

Prosecutors say a Marengo man held a woman against her will with a shotgun in his trailer on Friday, according to a criminal complaint filed in McHenry County.

A Crystal Lake man was found guilty for exposing himself to a child as she walked to her school bus 15 years ago Monday.

Get started on holiday shopping at the Country Christmas art show and parade in your costume in Cary and Fox River Grove this weekend in McHenry County.

Firefighters worked for nearly an hour on extricating a driver who crashed into a tree and suffered serious injuries Sunday morning in Prairie Grove, officials report.

McHenry County voters have two choices for county board chair: Republican incumbent Mike Buehler or Democrat challenger Kelli Wegener. Both are arguing they'll do the most to control spending and taxing.

A McHenry County jail inmate suffered “serious injuries” after falling down a flight of stairs Thursday morning at the jail located in Woodstock, officials report.

Two people who were apparently shot at a home near Wonder Lake Thursday survived and were taken by medical helicopters to separate hospitals.

Two people are reported to have been shot Thursday near Wonder Lake, officials report.

A juvenile boy suffered serious injuries after being stabbed by another juvenile Tuesday in Wonder Lake, officials report.

The McHenry County Sheriff's Office announced it has identified a person of interest and a vehicle believed involved in the hit-and-run crash that killed Austin Stanek, 24, of Island Lake on Friday.

The McHenry County Sheriff's Office is still searching for the driver whose car hit and hilled Austin Stanek, 24, of Island Lake. The Wauconda High School graduate's family has created a GoFundMe for a scholarship in his name.

McHenry County starts budget process, upholds promise to remove Mental Health Board levy on budget.

Police say a driver hit a person who was walking with a group near Island Lake and then drove off. Officials are looking for the driver and have identified the person killed as an Island Lake man, 24.

Alcohol is believed involved in a motorcycle crash northwest of Huntley that left the driver in critical condition early Sunday morning, authorities said.

A “large number” of vases were stolen from gravestones at McHenry County Memorial Park in Woodstock earlier this month, officials report.

Two people were injured when a motorboat crashed into a seawall Thursday afternoon along the Fox River in Cary, officials report.

A missing horse was found by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office in the early hours Saturday morning near Harvard, officials report.

Woodstock police on Thursday arrested a Wonder Lake man now charged with 20 child pornography counts

A Johnsburg District 12 school bus collided with an SUV in Ringwood and four people were injured, officials said.

Sixteen jail inmates were taken to various hospitals after the bus they were riding in crashed in Lake County on their way to McHenry County Jail.

A man with a felony conviction drove off during a traffic stop, injuring two McHenry County Sheriff's deputies, and he was found to have a stolen firearm, authorities allege.

A man was taken to Northwestern Hospital Huntley with serious injuries following a crash Tuesday morning near Marengo.

A felon arrested in Spring Grove pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing a stolen car and firearm and was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.

A 40-year-old Woodstock man was identified Thursday as the second victim of a double fatal UTV crash near Hebron late Saturday

A UTV crash caused the deaths of two Harvard men after their UTV crashed late Saturday near Hebron involving high speeds on a county road that does not allow those types of vehicles.

The McHenry County Coroner’s Office identified one of the men who died in a UTV crash on Thayer Road near Hebron late Saturday.

A 19-year-old struck by a vehicle at about midnight Saturday in unincorporated Harvard was flown to a Rockford hospital in critical condition, a news release sent Tuesday by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said.

Two men from Harvard have died after a UTV, or utility terrain vehicle, crashed near Hebron late Saturday.

The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office will be using drones at Sunday’s pro-Trump rally at the McHenry County Fairgrounds in Woodstock.

Details emerge from April 11 dog attack near McHenry that led to one dog killed by police and one on the loose for six days. The owner of the dogs was in court Thursday.

A rollover crash involving a dump truck closed a portion of Route 31 due to a fuel leak early Tuesday evening, according to the Richmond Fire Protection District.

McHenry County police departments are urging people to remove valuables from cars and lock them amid a spate of burglaries to cars.