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The Wonder Lake Fire Protection District is asking voters to approve a referendum March 17 election ballot increasing its property tax levy.

An average homeowner with a $100,000 home currently pays $153 in taxes to the Wonder Lake Fire Protection District. If the referendum is successful, that would go up by $33, so the homeowner would pay $186.

The amount of taxes currently able to be levied for the fire district is $963,994.

A 24-year-old McHenry man who barricaded himself in a Crystal Lake apartment Friday night is facing multiple felony charges, including predatory criminal sexual assault and child pornography offenses, after being apprehended.

Crystal Lake police had been dispatched to the 500 block of Darlington Lane about 4:30 p.m. Friday over a report of a burglary in process.

When officers arrived, they discovered Matthew R.

The McHenry County Community Development Division earned national recognition for its work on Pearl Street Commons, a 25-unit development built in 2018 to cater to veterans in need and people with disabilities.

The department was honored during a Jan. 31 ceremony with a 2020 Audrey Nelson Community Development Award.

Wrestlers compete in early action on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020 at the State Farm Center at the University of Illinois Champaign in Champaign. The morning session included quarterfinals wrestlebacks, semifinal wrestlebacks, and place matches for 3rd through 6th place. Finals will begin at 6pm Saturday.

LAS VEGAS – Bernie Sanders scored a commanding victory in Nevada’s presidential caucuses Saturday, cementing his status as the Democrats’ national front-runner but escalating tensions over whether he’s too liberal to defeat President Donald Trump.

As Sanders celebrated, Joe Biden was in second place with votes still being counted. Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren trailed further behind.

WASHINGTON – Democratic voters feel generally positive about all of their top candidates running for president, but they have only moderate confidence that their party’s nomination process is fair, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

U.S. voters from across the political spectrum have mixed confidence in the fairness of either party’s system for picking a candidate, but Democrats are especially likely to have doubts about their own party’s process.

BERLIN – As Germany’s president expressed his sympathy and shock during a candlelight vigil for nine people killed by an immigrant-hating gunman, a woman called out from the crowd, demanding action, not words.

But the country’s leaders are struggling to figure out how to counter a recent rise in right-wing hate, 75 years after the Nazis were driven from power.

The shooting rampage Wednesday that began at a hookah bar in the Frankfurt suburb of Hanau was Germany’s third deadly far-right attack in a matter of month

Wrestlers compete for a chance at a state wrestling championship on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020 inside the State Farm Center at the University of Illinois Champaign in Champaign.

The McHenry County Sheriff's Office confirmed Saturday that a deceased elderly male found in the area of 2400 S. River Road in unincorporated McHenry was that of a 95-year-old man who went missing Friday.

The sheriff's office had been in search of Stanley E. Szczesny, who last was seen 3:30 a.m. Friday in the 2500 block of Scheid Lane in the McHenry area. When his neighbor went to check on him at 8 p.m., he was gone.

Szczesny was described as 5'5'', white and weighing about 125 pounds.

Now performing as part of BrassTaps Duo, a Woodstock North High School graduate will return to his alma mater to encourage students to drum to their own beat.

Known as a star drummer in high school, Anthony DeMartinis joined with tuba player Evan Zegiel in 2016 as the two earned master’s degrees from the University of Michigan. They since have performed their contemporary, yet classical brand of chamber music throughout Michigan and beyond as BrassTaps Duo.