Category: Lake County News-Sun Opinion

A Lake County judge ruled Wednesday that Shorbonia Poole Jr., 19, should be detained in the death of Valeria Rodriguez, 15.

Halsey Village at Naval Station Great Lakes looks like one of the most dismal places to live on any military base or post. The Department of Defense has done little to fix what has been labeled a “zombie village” for the Navy neighborhood which abuts the city of North Chicago.

The scheduled Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump may prove decisive.

The cyclist, a 66-year-old Kenosha, Wisconsin man, had gotten into an argument with Evans and her two passengers after they almost hit the bike rider with their car near the 2000 block of North Sheridan Road.

Waukegan High must be one of the few in Lake County without police officers currently available during classroom hours. Some school districts even have SROs at junior highs.

The failure of the administration adequately to prepare for this scenario was devastating. The background of the debacle has been investigated, but not thoroughly or publicly.

There was the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic standard-bearer last week at the party’s national convention in Chicago. It was 60 years ago, 1964, when another former vice president was named to lead Democrats, albeit in Atlantic City, N.J.

A Fox Lake woman fled from police at more than 100 miles per hour in a stolen car before a police dog tracked her to a hiding spot in a neighborhood, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

South Korea and the United States on Aug. 19 began regular annual military exercises, including operations geared toward North Korea, but this year there is a difference. Japan is a more visible defense partner in the Pacific and beyond

Now that Gurnee trustees have rejected plans for a homeless shelter in the village, perhaps they can prod someone in code enforcement to take a look at the deteriorating motel which had been eyed for the project. Yellow caution tape outside the front of the building can’t be good sign.