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OREGON – The Ogle County Board has settled with an Aurora construction company that sued the board after failing to win the courthouse renovation project.

Rock River Bank already had plans to be closed Friday and Saturday for the Fourth of July holiday.

Six Illinois banks and one bank in Texas were shuttered Thursday as government regulators proposed new rules for private equity firms seeking to take over failed banks.

Municipal Band to present holiday show DeKalb's Fourth of July “Salute to the Veterans and Members of the U.S. Armed Forces” will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at DeKalb's Hopkins Park.

Carol Parisi of Westchester, Calif., holds a piece of pottery from Curt Buethe's Urimusic Pottery.

An Ottawa woman, convicted of participation in a 1998 murder, was in a La Salle County courtroom Friday, to formally hear that she must remain in Department of Correction's custody until her fall release.

OREGON, Ill. - Train traffic was temporarily suspended early Monday morning while railroad crews repaired a washout along the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe freight line following a flash flood between Oregon and Stratford.

A worker pours rock onto a washed-out bridge Monday in Lost Nation after it gave way to a torrent of water Sunday night.

OREGON – Experience won out over the lower bid for the Ogle County Courthouse renovation project.

Perhaps it was fitting that when he died in his studio home in Chicago, he was creating a memorial piece commissioned to be placed on a grave.

OREGON – A fugitive wanted on Ogle County drug charges was arrested Monday night in Jones County, N.C., Ogle County Sheriff Greg Beitel said.

Egypt's pyramids. Machu Picchu. Normandy's battlefields. The world is full of historical sites that are awe-inspiring, educational ... and really far away.

MORRISON – After nearly a year of legal wrangling and hard feelings, the city has a $360,000 plan to restore the rubble at 101 E. Main St.

OREGON – The committee overseeing the Ogle County Courthouse renovation has given the nod to an Aurora contractor who bid $5.4 million to get the job done.

OREGON – All but two of 15 Ogle County residents indicted earlier this month on felony drug charges have been arrested, Ogle County Sheriff Greg Beitel said.

Mr. and Mrs. Tim Andersen of Ohio, Ill., will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

A study published yesterday by the street dot com.. shows Rock River Bank in Oregon doesn't have the five percent capital ratio required.

Alisa Patterson, Stillman Valley, arranges items for sale at the annual Breast Yard Sale in Town.

OREGON – The Oregon High School Class of 2009 was in the mood to celebrate Sunday.

A 60-year-old York man pleaded guilty on Tuesday, May 26, to a mail fraud scheme in which he bilked his employer out of $68,000 in hotel stays that never happened.