Lake & McHenry County Scanner

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Structure Fire (McHenry) McHenry Twp Fire District on scene of a working house fire in the 4800 block of William Street. Initially dispatched as a medical call and then the ambulance arrived and found heavy smoke showing from a house with people trapped inside. Firefighters have rescued two victims. Multiple ambulances requested to the scene and a Working Fire response upgrade. https://t.co/rJfbHeuXTA

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A Woodstock man in town for Purdue’s homecoming in Indiana fell over a bridge railing into a river, prompting an emergency search for him, before making it to shore and telling police he had been drinking. https://t.co/97tZlIGHF1

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Two students were taken into custody after a school employee overheard them talking about a gun, prompting a lockdown that kept students in their classrooms for over two hours at Lake Zurich High School Friday afternoon. https://t.co/Rc8Umb1qh1

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A Lakewood planning commissioner quit Wednesday in protest of how village employees are treated, the second resignation in a week, as a trustee seeks to censure the village president who blamed five trustees for driving out staff. https://t.co/yxld3XGeBK

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A man faces up to 120 years in prison after a jury convicted him of murder Tuesday in a 2018 Zion home invasion and triple shooting that prosecutors say was planned after robbers saw a victim with lawsuit settlement cash on Snapchat. https://t.co/siaOzjd1Yr

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Rollover Crash w/Entrapment (Crystal Lake) Crystal Lake Fire Rescue Dept on scene of a car that struck a utility pole and left it severed before the car then rolled over on Swanson Rd between Ackman Rd and Alexandra Blvd. Heavy damage reported and reports of entrapment. Three ambulances requested to the scene and a medical helicopter is on standby. Report of a baby involved. https://t.co/vrHu0Xlr67

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Warren Township's current clerk, a fire service veteran who spent years as Gurnee's fire chief and later served as Beach Park's deputy chief, has died, the township announced Wednesday. https://t.co/kTnKRzIB8A

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Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan had just 21 patients Thursday morning and closed one of its floors, an employee said, amid reports that a group of the hospital's doctors could take over running it. https://t.co/32YXoLMvAn

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Structure Fire (Round Lake Beach) Greater Round Lake Fire District on scene of a working house fire in the 1200 block of Woodridge Drive. Fire crews report smoke showing from the rear of the home and the front door. Initial report that the homeowner may have arrived home and gone inside. Also a dog inside the home. Multiple fire departments responding to assist. https://t.co/QyF3bIhi0Y

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A 21-year-old U.S. Navy sailor based at Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County was found unresponsive and pronounced dead under a bridge on Chicago's Near West Side Saturday evening, officials said. https://t.co/RTDlhkftm9

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A 26-year-old Wisconsin man was arrested Thursday for allegedly recording a woman in her underwear and another person’s exposed intimate parts in a changing room at the Target in Crystal Lake. https://t.co/HMdl5Y6YmY

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The company that owns Six Flags Great America in Gurnee said discussions about selling more of its parks are underway, a day before it set 2027 as the final season for its other Great America park in California. https://t.co/n1UkXXG42W

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There was no evidence of foul play in the death of a Wisconsin woman who was found dead and submerged in a bathtub during a well-being check at an Antioch hotel Saturday evening, the coroner's office said as it released new details. https://t.co/gKVdBp3lGX

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A Crystal Lake man already serving a federal prison sentence for an $8 million Ponzi scheme was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to stealing from a McHenry veterans group while he was its commander. https://t.co/TGeiLgpVHn

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Lakewood's village manager has resigned after less than six months on the job and the village president says trustees who second-guess staff are making it hard to keep good people, drawing pushback from two trustees. https://t.co/UNHnY92fVW

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An 18-year-old Ole Miss student whose grandfather owns Kunes Auto Group, with dealerships in Antioch and Woodstock, apologized for mimicking a monkey at Black students' door in a viral video and said she and her family got death threats. https://t.co/R6OuB87Mke

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An insurer is suing to avoid paying for the crash that killed a U.S. Marine veteran on the Fox River near McHenry and records show the accused boater swore he could not pay his lawyers months after his family's firm paid $454K for his pontoon. https://t.co/hRXAVdAa2f

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Explosion (Gurnee) Gurnee PD and Gurnee Fire Dept investigating after dispatchers received at least a half-dozen 911 calls for an explosion in the subdivision southeast of Hunt Club Road and Washington Street. Possibly a transformer fire but not confirmed and power is on in the area. https://t.co/xrF9klT0YU

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Police officers in riot gear lined up outside the Mundelein Village Hall as protesters left a board meeting where the family of a woman fatally shot by a police sergeant again demanded he be fired. https://t.co/dP4VTkDW19

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The medical examiner has released the identity of a 20-year-old Highland Park High School graduate from Highwood who died after falling from an elevated Interstate 94 exit ramp onto the street below in Chicago. https://t.co/8neBbDncyj