Carolyn Starks

A year after authorities quietly exhumed the bodies of three elderly patients who died at a Woodstock nursing home, a former employee dubbed "the Angel of Death" and her supervisor...

Clutching a Minnie Mouse hat with large, plastic ears, 7-year-old Abby Buchholz slumped Friday in a chair at O'Hare International Airport, "depressed," as she put it. Only the Mickey Mouse...

A McHenry County judge violated ethics rules last summer when he held bond court on a Saturday so a political ally's brother wouldn't have to spend the weekend in jail,...

An Algonquin woman has been charged with supplying alcohol and cigarettes to as many as 30 children, ages 12 to 14, at a New Year's Eve party in her home...

Union officials and administrators from a McHenry County school district failed again Monday to settle on a new contract for teachers and canceled classes for a third day Tuesday for...

South Elgin police are investigating a possible hate crime after a racial slur was painted on a work counter and a noose was found hanging from an exit at a...

Without a single dissenting vote, the Illinois House on Wednesday sent to the governor one of the nation's toughest sets of teen driving restrictions -- including a tripling of the...

Without a single dissenting vote, the Illinois House on Wednesday sent to the governor one of the nation's toughest sets of teen driving restrictions -- including a tripling of the...

The biggest pothole Russell Davenport has seen thus far this year measured roughly 4 feet square by 5 inches deep. It wasn't the worst axle-buster that the La Grange public...

Voters in a Barrington area school district probably will be asked again next spring to approve a bond issue and property-tax increase to ease middle-school overcrowding, an official said Wednesday...