Benet Lake, WI

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.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CBS) – A Texas man is facing drug charges after a Lake County Sheriff's canine discovers over two kilograms of cocaine during a traffic stop in Waukegan Friday afternoon.  The Lake County Sheriff's Deputy conducted the stop for a traffic violation around 1:15 p.m. on a vehicle on Greenwood Avenue at the Amstutz Expressway in Waukegan. During the traffic stop, Lake County Sheriff's Canine, Duke, conducted a free-air sniff around the vehicle and indicated there was contraband inside the vehicle, police said. Sheriff's deputies conducted a search of the vehicle and found a bag located on the floor...

A 19-year-old man was shot in front of an apartment building in Waukegan during a drive-by shooting early Friday morning, police said. The Waukegan Police Department and Waukegan Fire Department responded around 12:20 a.m. Friday to the 2000 block of Pine Street in Waukegan for a report of a shooting. Waukegan Deputy Police Chief Joe […] The post 19-year-old man hospitalized after being shot at apartment complex in Waukegan appeared first on Lake and McHenry County Scanner.

RACINE, Wis. - A Racine man is charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide after a June 13 shooting. Prosecutors say Floyd Cooper, 25, shot a man he knew inside a gas station. He is also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. Racine police were called to a...

Detectives are investigating after a 21-year-old man was hospitalized with serious injuries after being shot in front of a residence in Beach Park early Saturday morning. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a call of shots fired in the 11000 block of West 33rd Street in Beach Park around 1 a.m. Saturday. Lake […] The post 21-year-old man seriously hurt after being shot at Beach Park residence appeared first on Lake and McHenry County Scanner.

A Waukegan man was arrested after he allegedly fled from police and ran into a wooded area after crashing his car into a retention pond near Round Lake Park. Jeremy Point, 39, of Waukegan, was charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding police, two counts of aggravated driving under the influence, possession of hypodermic needles, possession […] The post Man arrested after allegedly fleeing police, crashing car into pond near Round Lake Park appeared first on Lake and McHenry County Scanner.

A Texas man was arrested after Lake County Sheriff’s Canine Duke found over two kilograms of cocaine in a car during a traffic stop in Waukegan, police said. A Lake County sheriff’s deputy conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Greenwood Avenue at the Amstutz Expressway in Waukegan around 1:15 p.m. Friday.

Rage Against the Machine will donate nearly half a million dollars to reproductive rights organizations in Wisconsin and Illinois, as the band announced on social media last night (June 24). “We are disgusted by the repeal of Roe V. Wade and the devastating impact it will have on tens of millions of people,” the group wrote in an Instagram post. “Over half of the country (26 states) is likely to ban or seriously restrict abortion very soon, if not immediately, which will have a disproportionate impact on poor, working class and undocumented BIPOC communities.”

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 about 5,000 students in Waukesha and Racine […]

Sony Pictures Television, producer of “The Young and the Restless,” has signed actor Peter Bergman to a new five-year contract which will keep him in Genoa City as the character Jack Abbott, a role he has played on the daytime drama series since 1989. According to Deadline, which...

We’ve come to expect big things from the Mundelein, Illinois-based Roadster Shop, although we must say this 1,500-horsepower 1970 Chevy Camaro still blows us away. Appropriately named Split Second, this heavily modified muscle car isn’t messing around one bit. This is the kind of build Chevy guys point to when their Mustang-loving friends start trashing their car, only for their friend to complain it’s not a factory build. We don’t care about any of that because this machine is simply amazing and that’s it.

Eugene Henderson was a star in the making. The 14-year-old member of the Kenosha Ramblers football team was shot and killed and now the family finally has some justice. According to CBS 58 in Wisconsin, Two people have been arrested in connection tot he homicide of Henderson. Sixteen-year-old Emonjae Kinney...

Authorities continued this week to investigate the suspected murder-suicide of two Great Lakes-based sailors earlier this month in the Chicago suburb of Wheeling, Illinois. Police arrived at the intersection of Lakeview Drive and Buffalo Grove Road at about 5 a.m. on June 5 to find Equipment Operator 2nd Class Ajah Brianna Barnes, 26, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Travis Stephens, 37, dead of gunshot wounds, according to Wheeling police.

A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to three months in jail after taking a plea deal for firing a BB gun at a McHenry County sheriff’s deputy’s home and patrol car in Woodstock. Maurice Q. Gill-McNeil, 19, of the 14200 block of Westwood Court in Woodstock, was indicted on three counts of threatening a public […] The post 3 months in jail for man who shot BB gun at McHenry County sheriff’s deputy’s Woodstock home, patrol car appeared first on Lake and McHenry County Scanner.

A young mother and her 5-month-old son went missing after investigators said they were picked up by a man at the Harvard Diggins Library.

WADSWORTH, Ill. —  The Tempel Lipizzans just started the season of dance.  The art has been practiced for hundreds of years. The horses were mainly used for the military. Now they are artists. The horses go through daily training and, a fun fact, all the male stallions are named after their mothers. There are two unique […]

While most dogs before him took a long head start, Augie, a Staffordshire bull terrier, was too excited and went for his jump in the pool and took his head start from a few feet from the edge of the water. “He’s a drop and plop dog, which means he...