Lake and McHenry County Scanner
Providing breaking news as it happens in Lake & McHenry Counties in Illinois
A Lake Zurich man has been charged with battery after police said that he pushed a school bus driver, injuring him, during a dispute about a parking spot. Joseph T. Little, 44, of the 300 block of Denberry Drive in…
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A Wisconsin man with 10 DUI convictions has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after his last DUI arrest in Spring Grove, prosecutors said. The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office said that Raymond A. Puterbaugh, 48, of Silver Lake,…
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Authorities are investigating after a 69-year-old Harvard man was struck and killed by a vehicle in Harvard Thursday evening. The Harvard Police Department and Harvard Fire/Rescue was called at 9:41 p.m. to a report of a pedestrian struck by a…
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A Lake County Sheriff’s Office police dog helped track down a burglary suspect Thursday evening in Lake Villa Township, authorities said. Police were called to a home in the 20800 block of West Siena Drive in Lake Villa Township for…
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Two Wisconsin men were arrested in Libertyville for driving a stolen vehicle and carrying a gun and drugs, police said. Daniel D. Hoffmann, 28, of the 4500 block of Warner Drive in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and Anthony J. Hoffmann, 27, of…
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A 77-year-old Vernon Hills man died and a 32-year-old Woodstock man was injured in a two-vehicle crash near Richmond Wednesday morning. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office, Richmond Fire Protection District and Wonder Lake Fire Protection District were called at 7…
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Woodstock police announced charges on Monday against a 13-year-old and 14-year-old boy who sold a stolen gun to another juvenile, who then accidentally fired the gun in the Woodstock Square on Sunday. Woodstock police were called at 1 p.m. Sunday…
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