2 killed when vehicle flies off road in Newport Township

The driver, 23-year-old Angel Calderon, and front-seat passenger, 27-year-old Miguel Mandujano, were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Lake County coroner’s office.

Police cleared in fatal Fox Lake crash stemming from Wisconsin chase

Investigators found no wrongdoing by police in a chase last year before a crash that killed two people in northwest suburban Fox Lake.

Lawsuit claims Lake County special ed district failed to protect special needs student from sex assault

Israel Suaste-Gonzalez allegedly abused the student “many, many times” throughout the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years, according to a lawsuit filed Feb. 27 in Lake County Circuit Court.

Wauconda man arrested for soliciting a child

A 21-year-old Wauconda man is accused of attempting to have sex with a 14-year-old girl in the north suburb.

3 charged in Waukegan shooting

They pulled out guns and opened fire at another vehicle.

Missing man from Round Lake Beach is located: police

Gonzalo Luna-Santos was last seen about noon Monday leaving his home in the 200 block of Pennsbury Court.

Autistic child hurt ‘head to toe’ in Deerfield hit-and-run expected to make full recovery, family says

Chase Thompson, an autistic 12-year-old who was injured “head to toe” in a hit-and-run weeks ago in north suburban Deerfield, is no longer in critical condition and expected to make a full recovery, his father said Wednesday. 

Americans on board coronavirus quarantine ship to be quarantined for two more weeks in U.S.

The approximately 400 Americans who are on board a coronavirus quarantined cruise ship will fly back to the United States Sunday -- to be quarantined for another two weeks.

Woman charged in Deerfield hit-and-run that seriously injured 12-year-old

Stacy Shapiro, of Northbrook, Ill., turned herself in Friday to the Deerfield Police Department on felony charges of leaving the scene of an accident.

Video released of justified Waukegan officer-involved shooting in 2019

Video has been released of an officer-involved shooting after prosecutors determined that a Waukegan police officer was justified in fatally shooting a man who allegedly tried to hit him with a vehicle on Feb. 3, 2019.