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Police are searching for the driver of a boat that struck a jet ski, injuring a man, and fled the scene on the Fox River near McHenry Sunday evening. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office and McHenry Township Fire Protection District responded around 8:24 p.m. Sunday to the 1000 block of River Terrace Drive in Johnsburg […] The post Man hospitalized after boat hits jet ski, flees scene on Fox River near McHenry appeared first on Lake and McHenry County Scanner.

Lanes are back open after a crash closed northbound lanes on I-43 at WIS 164 in Big Bend in Waukesha County Tuesday morning.

A suspect in multiple robberies in Cudahy and Kenosha was recently captured and charged. Ricardo Garcia, 34, was taken into custody in Milwaukee, following a brief foot chase, on June 20 by the Milwaukee Area Safe Streets Task Force, according to Cudahy Police Chief Tom Poellot. On June 21, Garcia was charged with two...

KENOSHA, WI (WLIP)–One person is in custody and another was injured after a police chase and then a crash. It happened around 4 PM Monday afternoon. Scanner reports indicated that police spotted an erratic driver near 46th street and 32nd avenue. The 29 year old man allegedly fled from...

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WI (WLIP)–The man found unresponsive in Lake Andrea Sunday morning during the Pleasant Prairie Triathlon has died. The family 52 year old Russell Harms of Oswego, IL confirmed to WLIP that he passed away. Harms was found by another athlete in the water and first responders arrived...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (CBS) -- The Bulls on Monday introduced new draft pick Dalen Terry. The 6-foot 7-inch guard played for the University of Arizona, and is known for his energy, competitive drive, and defensive playmaking. Terry will wear the number 25 to honor fellow Arizona alum Steve Kerr – who wore the jersey number for the Bulls during the Michael Jordan championship era – and also to honor Simeon Vocational High School standout Ben Wilson, who was shot and killed in 1984. Terry says he's ready to get to work and learn from Head Coach Billy Donovan. "I'm just...

GREENDALE, Wis. - Saying thank you from one hero to another, the Wisconsin VFW honored a Greendale fire chief for his service to his community, including one of his own firefighters. In February, Greendale Fire Lieutenant Mike Schmitt was among the crews rushing to a house fire in Muskego. He'd...

RACINE – Just ask Wilbert Kennedy about how good his team is, and he’ll tell you the Racine Raiders can hang with – and beat – any opponent. This is most likely true. But it’s not easy to emerge victorious when you have nine regular linemen injured and unavailable against the cream of the crop, the undefeated Chicago Birdgang.

A school board in southeastern Wisconsin has rejected a book recommended for use in a 10th-grade accelerated English class due in part to concerns that it lacked “balance” regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Curriculum Planning Committee for the Muskego-Norway district, which serves...

McHenry County College student Maggie Griffin is 2022 Miss Woodstock. Jordan Cheng won the title of Little Miss Woodstock during the 73rd annual Miss Woodstock scholarship pageant June 23 at […]

MUKWONAGO — Andy Fix will be remembered as the friendly owner of Won-A-Go Biking, as a family-oriented brother, father and grandfather and as a nearly lifelong Mukwonago resident. Fix passed away on June 22 at 59 years old. Rose Fix, Andy’s mother, said Andy moved to Mukwonago when he...

Rage Against The Machine is donating ticket revenue to women’s reproductive rights organizations in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday. The ticket sales are from the band’s concerts at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin and the United Center in Illinois and will go to organizations in those states.

The 51st Annual Tichigan Fireworks display take place on July 2 this year. The show will take place on Tichigan Lake, just north of Waterford, Wisc. The event is supported by generous donors and volunteers from the Tichigan Lake Fireworks Committee, a non-profit organization. View from Lake Tichigan. Viewers may...

Planned Parenthood of Illinois says it has been preparing for Roe's fall for a long time. It opened a clinic near the Wisconsin border in Waukegan back in 2020.

A 29-year-old woman was ejected and killed after crashing her car into a wall on Interstate 294 near Deerfield early Saturday morning, state police said. The Illinois State Police responded around 2:08 a.m. Saturday to the northbound lanes of Interstate 294 at Lake Cook Road in Deerfield. District 15 troopers arrived to find a white […] The post Woman killed after high-speed crash into wall on Interstate 294 near Deerfield appeared first on Lake and McHenry County Scanner.

Were we duped? Or were expectations not met due to outside factors?. “A little bit of both” according to Editor in Chief of the Milwaukee Business Journal Mark Kass. It was June 27th, 2022 when then President Donald Trump visited Wisconsin to speak on the potential on the facility that was to be built on land in Mount Pleasant. Land that was acquired with plenty of challenges before the groundbreaking ceremony.

With abortions no longer taking place in Wisconsin, providers in neighboring states are preparing for an influx of out-of-state patients seeking abortion care after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday. Wisconsin’s 173-year-old abortion ban is now in effect, making abortions illegal unless the procedure is necessary...

Johnson began covering sports in Kenosha in 2004 as a staff writer for the Kenosha News and eventually became a news and sports editor there, serving in that role and covering the community until May 2022. Johnson grew up in Kenosha, graduating from Bradford High School in 2000 and then the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. He still happily resides in town with his wife, Bridget, and son, Brady.

The Illinois Fire Safety Alliance’s free Camp I Am Me offers child burn survivors a place to have fun, and at the same time talk about their experience in a judgment-free environment, with the help of counselors and even other campers. Lombard resident has been a volunteer since the...

The U.S. reported over 665,000 new cases of coronavirus over the seven days ending June 26, bringing the total count to more than 85.6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 1,005,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country. New cases continue to rise, albeit at a slowing rate. […]