Lake and McHenry County Scanner
Providing breaking news as it happens in Lake & McHenry Counties in Illinois
A McHenry man and woman are in custody after police found them incapacitated and their two kids living in an uninhabitable home, the Northwest Herald reported. McHenry Police were called on Sunday to a home in the 2000 block of…
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A 30-year-old Crystal Lake man was found with guns, ammunition and drugs when police arrested him on a drug induced homicide warrant Wednesday. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Task Force arrested Keith L. Lang, 30, of Crystal Lake on…
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A woman is in critical condition after being rescued from her car that went into a retention pond Monday evening in Lake in the Hills, police said. The Huntley Fire Protection District and Lake in the Hills Police Department was…
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A man is in custody after he allegedly stabbed a woman and then got into a standoff with SWAT officers in Wauconda late Monday evening. The Wauconda Police Department was initially called at 5 p.m. to a report of a…
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A fire at the Vanderstappen Farm in Hebron caused over $250,000 in damage early Tuesday morning. The Hebron-Alden-Greenwood Fire Protection District and several other fire departments were called to a report of a barn fire at the Vanderstappen Dairy Farm,…
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Video originally posted on Facebook by Katie Loisel A major police presence was seen Friday evening at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee after multiple fights erupted leading to two people being arrested. Police officers were called around 10:45 p.m….
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A 42-year-old Fox Lake man was flown to the hospital after a small plane crashed in McHenry County Saturday morning. Emergency crews were called to Galt Airport, 5112 Greenwood Road in unincorporated Greenwood, at 10:36 a.m. Saturday for a report…
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