A Wonder Lake man who worked as a police sergeant for the Hebron Police Department will serve four years in prison for possession of stolen firearms and delivering marijuana while on duty and wearing his police uniform. Ryszard Kopacz, 32, was convicted of aggravated possession of stolen firearms after a bench trial Aug. 25, according […]

If you got a new TV for Christmas, it’s likely the hardest part won’t be installing it — it will be finding a way to get rid of the old one. The law — not to mention common sense — says you can’t just toss it or any other electronics in the trash. And for the next […]

A motorist was transported to the hospital after a Jeep Wrangler overturned near Country Club and South Fleming roads in Bull Valley during the Dec. 28 snow storm.  Woodstock Fire/Rescue District responded to the scene at about 10 a.m. where they found the Jeep overturned in a ditch on Country Club Road. The slippery roads and […]

A chimney fire that spread to the nearby walls caused about $20,000 worth of damage to a single-family house on Newell Street.  Woodstock Fire/Rescue District responded at about 3:50 p.m. Jan. 2 to the call at 122 Newell St., where a property owner was cleaning a vacant house. While working, the owner started a fire in the […]

                Woodstock Man Accused of Stabbing Murder on Leah Lane Branden M. Napolitan, 26, Woodstock, was charged with first-degree murder after police found his roommate dead in their shared apartment on Leah Lane Oct. 25. Daryl K. Fox, 53, died of multiple blunt-force injuries to his neck and […]

Woodstock Police charged a registered sex offender with failing to disclose that he had a social media page. Corion V. Simpson, 20, 350 Leah Lane, unit 2C, was arrested Dec. 17, and charged with one count of failure to register as a sex offender, a Class 3 felony, according to a news release issued by […]

Roman Rodriguez, a Woodstock High School senior, was on Christmas dinner duty Dec. 19, busily steering boxes of food down a conveyor belt toward a line of waiting cars at a warehouse at the intersection of Highway 14 and Route 47. The boxes were intended for about 1,100 families in the Woodstock area slated to […]

A 64-year-old Woodstock man was listed in serious condition Dec. 21 after being struck by a car while he was walking across Route 47.   The accident occurred at about 9:40 a.m. as the pedestrian attempted to walk westward across Route 47 near Jewel-Osco, just north of Country Club Road, when he was struck by […]

One recent winter, Ken Eriksen glanced through his Bull Valley farmhouse window and noticed a car parked in his driveway for quite some time. After a while, Eriksen decided to walk outside to check on the woman sitting in the driver’s seat.   As he approached the car, Eriksen could see the woman was crying. […]

After serving as Woodstock’s top cop for more than 10 years, Chief Robert Lowen will retire in June 2016.   The city announced Lowen’s upcoming retirement in a news release issued Dec. 17. City Manager Roscoe Stelford commended Lowen for his service to Woodstock. “It will be a sad day for the city of Woodstock and […]