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An Atlanta teenager and a family friend tragically died while on a family vacation in Florida. The two males dove into the Gulf of Mexico to rescue several children but lost their lives as a result. Read more...

(The Center Square) – Certain provisions of Illinois’ gun and magazine ban go into effect Monday that will ban possession of certain semi-automatic firearms and magazines in public places. At an unrelated stop in Champaign Wednesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the ban on more than 170 semi-automatic firearms and magazines over 10 rounds for rifles [...]

Prosecutors say a man collapsed to the ground and was hospitalized after he was attacked by a man who he accidentally bumped into at a grocery store in Waukegan. Dartanion D. Smith, 35, of Waukegan, was charged with battery causing bodily harm and battery making physical contact. Read more...

A man, who was out on bond for shooting at a family in a car, was arrested after he allegedly beat and injured a man with a baseball bat near Marengo. Carson Maxwell, 24, of Belvidere, was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and criminal damage to property. Read more...

Two female employees were attacked, leaving one of them injured, during an attempted robbery at a popular ice cream shop in downtown Grayslake Monday. The incident happened at The Freeze, located at 131 Hawley Street in Grayslake. Read more...

A convicted felon, who was wanted for multiple retail thefts in Lake County, was ordered held on a $400,000 bond after police found him with a gun in Waukegan. Randy O. Capers, 35, of Waukegan, was charged with felon in possession of a weapon, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Read [...]

A woman suffered multiple injuries and was transported to the hospital after a man allegedly intentionally ran her over with a car in Waukegan, prosecutors said. Gejuan J. Grashen, 40, of Zion, was charged with failure to report a crash with injury, aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and two counts of domestic battery. Read [...]

A man, who has been sent to prison 18 times for residential burglary, was ordered held without bond after being arrested for committing six home burglaries in Crystal Lake and Woodstock. Scott A. Weissert, 60, of Lakemoor, was charged last month with four counts of residential burglary, one count of resisting a peace officer causing [...]

A Lake Villa man is being held without bond after prosecutors say he fired shots at responding police cars, a mail carrier and a house in McHenry after he was rejected by a woman at a party. McHenry County Assistant State’s Attorney Hunter Jones said Nicholas C. Lopardo, 25, of Lake Villa, attended a party [...]

Officials say a wanted man who threatened to kill a woman was bitten and injured by Lake County Sheriff’s Canine Dax after he barricaded himself at an Ingleside home. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 1:05 a.m. Tuesday to the 35600 block of North Lane Drive in Ingleside for a report of a violation [...]