WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY IN STABBING OF FRIEND
A Gurnee woman pleaded guilty to a single count of aggravated domestic battery Thursday for stabbing her female companion in the chest with a barbecue fork and choking her with...
All Stories
2 JUDGES HONORED FOR 20-YEAR TENURES
Serenaded with a homespun tune celebrating their 20-year careers on the bench, two Lake County judges were honored Wednesday by friends, peers and courthouse staffers. Judge Jane Waller, who presides...
SCHOSTOK BECOMES FULL CIRCUIT JUDGE
Mary Seminara Schostok recently was sworn in as a full circuit judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit of Lake and McHenry Counties by Illinois Supreme Court Justice Bob Thomas. Schostok,...
MAN GETS 6-YEAR TERM IN KIDNAPPING CASE
A Chicago man accused of organizing the kidnapping and beating of a Round Lake Beach youth because he believed the youth had raped his girlfriend was sentenced to 6 years...
FORMER COP ACCUSED IN THEFTS POSTS BAIL
A former Lake Forest police officer charged in residential and business burglaries in the community he patrolled is free after posting 10 percent of his $500,000 bond, officials said Monday....
INGLESIDE MAN GETS 5 YEARS FOR 3 BURGLARIES
An Ingleside man was sentenced to 5 years in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty in three business burglaries last year. Leonard Zerbst, 21, of the 26200 block of West...
APPLICANTS SOUGHT FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE
The Lake County Circuit Court is seeking applicants for an associate judge's post made available when Mary Seminara Schostok was appointed to a circuit judgeship by the Illinois Supreme Court....
GROUP EXPANDS EROSION FIGHT
The Bull Creek Stakeholders Association, a group of homeowners who united because they were concerned about erosion in their back yards, has begun reaching out to others along the creek...
U.S. FUNDS AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
The Waukegan Public Schools have been awarded nearly $600,000 in federal funds for after-school programs that will give the district's elementary and middle school children safe places to learn and...
NEW COURT BRANCH POSSIBLE
The Lake County Board's Law and Judicial Committee is considering a site in southern Mundelein for a new branch court facility to handle traffic and other ticket violations, officials said...