Amanda Marrazzo

Lake Zurich extends fireworks contract to 2021 with this year’s display canceled due to COVID-19

June 11, 2020 at 5:50 p.m.

Fireworks, beer and roadwork were among the highlights at the Lake Zurich Village Board's virtual meeting earlier this month. Trustees approved a motion extending until July 4, 2021 a fireworks...

Chong "John" Woo is a former Huntley High School security aide and athletic coach who said he resigned after a student accused him of choking him.

About 200 people attend meeting to show support for Huntley High School employee who said he resigned rather than face termination from job

March 7, 2020 at 4:17 a.m.

About 200 people — many of them at times in tears — showed up at a school board committee meeting Thursday night to urge that the district rehire a former...

Chong "John" Woo is a former Huntley High School security aide and athletic coach who said he resigned after a student allegedly accused him of choking him.

A Huntley High School employee resigned amid controversy over incident in cafeteria. Now many in community calling for Coach Woo to be rehired.

March 5, 2020 at 9:51 p.m.

A Huntley High School security aide and athletic coach who said he resigned rather than face termination for trying to defuse a chaotic incident in the school cafeteria has received...

A K-9 officer works near the home of 5-year-old AJ Freund on April 18, 2019, in Crystal Lake. The boy had been reported missing but later was found dead.

‘Crystal Lake will be able to sleep now.’ Dozens watch demolition of home where 5-year-old AJ Freund was beaten to death

March 4, 2020 at 10:13 p.m.

The white, two-story house with green shutters in Crystal Lake where, authorities say, 5-year-old AJ Freund was killed by his parents less than a year ago was demolished Wednesday morning....

JoAnn Cunningham leaves a courtroom on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, after a status hearing with Judge Robert Wilbrandt at the McHenry County Courthouse in Woodstock. A sentencing date of April 30 was scheduled for Cunningham, who earlier pleaded guilty to murdering her 5-year-old son, AJ Freund.

JoAnn Cunningham, mom of AJ Freund, will be sentenced April 30 for murdering her son. She faces up to 60 years in prison. Dad waives jury trial.

February 27, 2020 at 9:19 p.m.

A sentencing date of April 30 was set Thursday for a mother who pleaded guilty to murdering her 5-year-old child in their Crystal Lake home last year. JoAnn Cunningham, 36,...

Prompted by death of AJ Freund, lawmaker proposes giving McHenry County authority over its child welfare cases instead of DCFS

February 15, 2020 at 8:32 p.m.

A law that would create an agency in McHenry County to handle local child welfare cases instead of the existing state agency has been proposed by a northwest suburban state...

Meydi Guzman Rivas, center, hugs her classmates and teachers from Crystal Lake Central High School, at her sponsor Sara Huser's home in Crystal Lake, hours after being released by ICE in Chicago on Feb. 13, 2020.

‘I’m forever grateful’: Teen who fled Honduras amid alleged gang threats is released from federal custody to suburban family amid fight for asylum

March 11, 2024 at 2:05 p.m.

After about five months in federal immigration detention, a teenager who had settled in Crystal Lake after escaping alleged gang death threats in her native Honduras was released from custody...

Court review means temporary reprieve for teen and father who face deportation after fleeing from gang violence in Honduras and settling in Crystal Lake

March 11, 2024 at 2:06 p.m.

A Honduran teenager taken under the wings of a far northwest suburban community seems to have found a reprieve from the "immediate" threat of deportation back to the country where...

Former Harvard city clerk sentenced to probation after being found guilty of child porn possession

January 31, 2020 at 7:44 p.m.

A former Harvard city clerk was sentenced Thursday to 24 months of sex offender probation and must register as a sex offender for life for possessing child pornography. In December,...

Huntley man who authorities say tried to lure teen girl to park for sex pleads guilty to grooming, gets probation

January 23, 2020 at 7:12 p.m.

A Huntley man who authorities say used a social media app in 2018 in an attempt to meet a 13-year-old girl in a park for sex was sentenced Wednesday to...

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