Prosecutors said the teen stabbed the younger sibling because she was ungrateful, according to media reports.
A look at weird crimes in the Chicago area.
The following police-related items were pulled from area Patches. An arrest is merely an accusation, not a determination of guilt.
Michael Romano, 54, of Las Vegas, and formerly of Algonquin, has been charged with four counts of first degree murder.
Lake in the Hills Police said a young, white man entered Walgreen's on Friday, Jan. 10, and demanded prescription medications.
The rural St. Charles senior citizen tells authorities he didn’t know shooting icicles from his bathroom window was not allowed, and promised not to do so again.
The following information was provided by the Huntley Police Department. An arrest should not be considered a conviction.
Officer Dean Burton, from the Harvard Police Department, was named Officer of the Year on Saturday by the McHenry County Chief of Police Association.
Irish House Party sold out the past two years.
Americans traveling to the Games this year should be vigilant of their surroundings, officials said.
Tory R. Taylor, 35, of Roselle, has been charged with criminal sexual assault. Body and Sol Salon owner Jane K. Hayes, 58, of Palatine, has been charged with multiple ordinance offenses.
The results of an autopsy for 8-month-old Mya Edwards, of Barrington, are still under investigation.
Paul Chandler, 51, of St. Charles, is accused of driving off in an ambulance from the emergency room parking lot at a Rockford hospital.
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Former McHenry County Sheriff's sergeant Gregory Pyle, 38, of Crystal Lake, entered a guilty plea to charges of sexually assaulting a child in court on Friday.
Jason M. Smalarz, 33, of Island Lake, was arrested Dec. 31, 2013, after he attacked a cab driver, sheriff's officials said.
Theodis R. Williams, 34, of Woodstock, was hit and killed by a Metra train in Woodstock on Monday night.
A look at weird news in the Chicago area.
Stephanie Siers, 19, of Carpentersville, died Sunday after falling off a truck while helping to remove snow.
Body found by an equestrian in the Spring Creek Valley Forest Preserve on Christmas day is missing Wauconda man, Robert Hovinen, police said.
Fire broke out in the kitchen of a home at 8930 Benoy Court on Tuesday afternoon.
We looked at stories from across America in the year since the shootings at Sandy Hook School to try to illustrate the scale of the problem.
Crystal Lake woman was tracked by former boyfriend, Eric M. Anderson, of Niles, to her mother's house in Arlington Heights where he shot a police officer.
A look at weird crime in the Chicago area this week.
A slow-moving Metra train struck a pickup truck at the Lincoln Avenue crossing in Fox River Grove on Thursday, Dec. 12.
Three Crystal Lake women were arrested for prostitution on Wednesday. A fourth woman was charged with not having a massage license following an undercover operation at three massage and spa businesses.