A 23-year-old Crystal Lake man was charged in connection with the suspected overdose death of a 20-year-old Wonder Lake woman. Jessie A. Brown was charged with drug-induced homicide, a Class X felony, April 27, after police arrested him at his Crystal Lake home without incident, according to the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office.  Sheriff’s officers […]

A Woodstock man was arrested May 6 on child pornography charges, according to the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office. Jerry S. Mannion, 41, was charged with two counts reproduction of child pornography, a Class 1 felony, and two counts possession of child pornography, a Class 2 felony, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release. The charges […]

One of the Woodstock Police Department’s own has been tapped to be its next chief. Deputy Chief John Lieb will take over next month for retiring Chief Robert Lowen, the city of Woodstock announced. “We are extremely pleased that the results of this process validated the feelings of everyone who has worked with John Lieb […]

No one was injured when a Woodstock School District 200 bus caught on fire April 29 on Wicker Street.  Woodstock Fire/Rescue District responded to the scene at 2:05 p.m. near the intersection of Wicker and Short streets. Upon arrival, crews reported the fire was in the engine of the bus, according to WFRD Capt. Brendan […]

The Woodstock City Council has designated the city’s tax revenues from video gambling for cultural projects, marketing and economic development. Under the new resolution, approved April 19, municipal gambling revenues will help to fund Woodstock’s sister city program, marketing projects, holiday lighting, Enterprise Zone administrative costs and the annual Summer in the Park community festival.  […]

A McHenry County College adjunct psychology instructor has been charged with a felony in a bizarre twist in the case of Woodstock, the “abandoned” 3-week-old puppy previously reported found along Route 14. Hope A. Sanchez, 38, of the 400 block of Woodbine Lane, Fox River Grove, was charged April 28 with disorderly conduct – filing […]

                                Woodstock, the rescued puppy found sealed inside a pillowcase along Route 14, has been joined by his siblings – all nine of them. The 10 puppies are currently in the care of Hoof Woof & Meow Animal Rescue.   […]

When the village of Bull Valley cut its police chief from the budget, officials said they did so in part because police officers were spending too much time answering Freedom of Information Act requests and too little time writing tickets. “The number of man hours necessary to fulfill those requests … reduced the number of hours […]

A huge jump in fines was the primary factor in a big increase in revenues collected by the village of Bull Valley from 2012 to 2015, documents show. Bull Valley tallied nearly $127,000 in fines in the fiscal year ending April 30, 2012, but by April 2015 that figure had jumped to more than $523,000, […]

Several local governments, including Woodstock School District 200 and the city of Woodstock, are among 6,500 taxing districts in the state that mistakenly received overpayments from the Illinois Department of Revenue. State officials announced the error in a news release April 19, and are asking the taxing bodies to return the $168 million in tax […]