Carpentersville

A Carpentersville man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of his ninth driving under the influence charge, Kane County officials said Thursday. William Reece, 49, of the 400 block of Besinger Drive, was sentenced...

A Carpentersville man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of his ninth DUI, Kane County officials said today. William M. Reece, 49, of the 400 block of Besinger Drive, Carpentersville, was sentenced Wednesday by Circuit...

A man was pronounced dead after a fire broke out in a landscaping company in Carpentersville, officials said. The fire happened just before 5 p.m. Friday at 1050 Tamarac Drive, according to a press release issued by the Carpentersville Fire Department....

Kane County Coroner Charles West died early today, just after midnight, from complications following liver transplant surgery, according to his family. West had been awaiting trial on felony misconduct charges. He had been accused of allowing two of his...

Kathryn Marshall Boggess and Benjamin Edward Jenkins were married Sept. 15 at First Vineyard in Nicholasville. The bride is a graduate of MTSU and is employed by Church Solutions Group. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Boggess of Nicholasville....

A Carpentersville man was sentenced to 55 years in prison today for murdering his roommate over $100 in profits from a drug sale. Errick L. Brown, 41, of the 100 block of Amarillo Court, had been found guilty of first-degree murder in May for the Oct....

A Carpentersville man pleaded guilty today to driving drunk during a 2011 single-car accident that killed one of his passengers. Ulises Beltran, 24, of the 1600 block of Sacramento Drive, agreed in Kane County court to plead guilty to two counts of...

The felony prosecution against the recently deceased Kane County coroner — a case that had lingered in the courts for more than two years and centered on an outmoded TV set — ended quietly Thursday in a hearing that lasted about 30 seconds....

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Police arrested almost two dozen suspected drunken drivers during the most recent “no-refusal” DUI enforcement action in Kane County, State’s Attorney Joe McMahon said today. Eleven police agencies in the county, along with Illinois...

An outbreak of the stomach flu at a far northwest suburban elementary and middle school has resulted in hundreds of student absences over the last three days. A total of 957 absences have been reported at Westfield Community School in Algonquin since...