Rock Falls News

Israelis are gearing up to get down at Madonna's show as the pop diva landed in the holy land ahead of her world tour which kicks off here next week.

ROCK FALLS – Wearing a green gown and holding her cap to her head, Jasmyn Kierczynski choked up as she thanked her mother.

Capt. Michael Barton prepares to load a John Deere tractor onto a trailer in Iraq for movement back to Kuwait in December 20111.

Rock Falls native Eric Arduini, 39, owns The Silicon Wrench. He repairs computers, phones and gadgets, and sells laptop and desktop computers and software.

Peg Cleggett of Kankakee rallies with fellow American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union members at a rally against proposed pension legislation outside the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield Wednesday.

DIXON – More than $30,000 disappeared last week from a Dixon Rural Fire Protection District account used to pay pensions, fire and police officials said.

Elise Gill receives her diploma from Bishop David Malloy of the Rockford Diocese during the Newman Central Catholic High School graduation Wednesday night at St.

Washington Elementary School principal Pat Fortney is retiring after 33 years as an educator.

The big top tent will raised June 21 when the Carson & Barnes Circus sets up at Gieson Motorsports in Rock Falls.

DIXON – Three men accused of breaking into a Cash for Gold store last month and stealing its safe are behind bars, police said Tuesday.

STERLING – The city could generate more than $300,000 a year in revenue from video gaming machines under an ordinance allowing them that was approved Monday night.

Pastor Henrietta “Hank” Milner of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Rock Falls wears bracelets for the cancers members of her congregation are battling.

In the latest food drive in the Sauk Valley, letter carriers in Rock Falls, Sterling and Dixon collected more than 30,000 pounds.

DIXON – The Dixon City Council is set to vote tonight on whether to hire a legal firm, but despite calls for transparency, the mayor isn't saying which firm the proposed agreement is with.

Tina Redell signs a farewell poster at Riverdale Elementary School. Her favorite memory of attending Riverdale was when the superintendent would let local children into the gym at night to play.

ROCK FALLS – It was hard to miss the unmistakable rat-a-tat-tat of the drums and the soft swish of flags Saturday at Rock Falls Veterans Park.

Larry McKee , 67, of Rock Falls, met members of his discovered family Wednesday during a backyard barbecue in Rock Falls.

ROCK FALLS – An environmentalist testified Wednesday that proposed turbines in southeastern Whiteside County should be farther away from a natural prairie.

Music lovers fill the benches and lawn at the Grandon Civic Center last June for a summer concert from the Sterling Municipal Band.

Accused spree killer Nicholas Sheley's trial has been pushed back. Already convicted of killing a Knox County man, Sheley was supposed to go on trial for murder in Whiteside County next month.