Gurnee’s Spaulding School wins tech classroom

Spaulding School students got to test drive some brand new ThinkPads that were donated to the Gurnee school by CDW-G and Discovery Education in a nationwide Win a Wireless Lab sweepstakes.

• Alarm helps nab would-be burglar

  A fast response by police to a burglar alarm at a storage company in Waukegan led to the arrest of a suspect with a bag of burglary tools.

• Men face separate first-degree murder charges

  Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Waller announced Tuesday that a Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder in a 1994 murder case and that Jorge Torrez has been charged with first-degree murder for the 2005 stabbings of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and Krystal Tobias, 9.

• Charges dropped from 1985 rape case

  Sexual assault charges against Bennie Starks from a 1985 sexual assault case were dropped in Lake County court Tuesday. Starks was convicted of attacking and sexually assaulting a 69-year-old Waukegan woman in 1986.