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An alleged heroin dealer from Elgin faces criminal charges in the 2018 overdose death of a 30-year-old West Dundee woman. 

Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon charged 22-year-old Gehovani R. Gomez, of the 800 block of Bode Road, on Wednesday with drug-induced homicide in the death of Crystal Villegas. 

Villegas allegedly overdosed and died from ingesting heroin she purchased from Gomez on Sept. 6, 2018, Kane County prosecutors said.

Dr. John Daniels, medical director of the Hip and Knee Replacement Center at Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital, has been training with robot-assisted knee replacement surgery technology for five years.

On Wednesday, he became the first person to perform the procedure in the McHenry County area on 50-year-old Susanne McNicholas of West Dundee.

The doctor said McNicholas would be able to go home approximately four hours after her surgery ended.

The man Crystal Lake police were looking for after a reported "suspicious" incident at a school bus stop on Monday morning actually was an Uber driver looking to pick up his passenger, police said on Wednesday.

After following dozens of leads, police said they found that no crime was committed and the driver mistakenly believed the girl was his Uber fare he was scheduled to pick up in the area.

Crystal Lake police initially began investigating the incident after a child was approached by the man at 7 a.m.

A retired Chicago police officer was found guilty on Wednesday afternoon of firing a single gunshot into his wife's neck in 2017, killing her in the kitchen of their Spring Grove home.

Following a three-day trial bench trial, which is heard without a jury, McHenry County Judge Michael Coppedge found 74-year-old Lorin Volberding guilty of two separate counts of first-degree murder.

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Icy road conditions caused a car to strike a Woodstock Community Unit School District 200 bus on Wednesday morning at Lake Avenue and Cobblestone Way in Woodstock.

No injuries were reported from the crash, which happened at 8:07 a.m.

Woodstock Police Deputy Chief Ray Lanz said a Mazda 3 sedan heading south on Lake Avenue toward Cobblestone was making a right-hand turn on roads that were icy and slick because of the freezing rain.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have released documents they obtained from a close associate of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, including a handwritten note that mentions asking Ukraine's president to investigate “the Biden case.”

The documents, obtained from Lev Parnas as part of the impeachment investigation, show Parnas communicating with Giuliani before the removal of Marie Yovanovitch, who was the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. A man named Robert F.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday named two House chairmen who led President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry as prosecutors for Trump's Senate trial.

Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who led the probe, and Judiciary Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler, whose committee approved the impeachment articles, as among the managers of the prosecution.

“Today is an important day,” said Pelosi, flanked by the team.

The man Crystal Lake police were looking for after a reported "suspicious" incident at a school bus stop on Monday morning was actually an Uber driver looking to pick up his passenger, police said Wednesday.

After following dozens of leads, the police found that no crime was committed and the driver mistakenly believed the minor was his Uber fare he was scheduled to pick up in the area.

Crystal Lake Police initially started investigating the incident after a child was approached by the man while while in the area of Virg

A new robotic machine, the Mako by Stryker, is being implimented at Northwest Medicine to do the county's first partial knee replacement on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020 in Huntley.