Rock Falls News

The convenience store has been delivering pizza, subs, wraps, breadsticks and 2-liter bottles of soda since Feb.

Eric Arduini is moving his Silicon Wrench business from his home to 107 W. Second St.

Amy Brose of Rock Falls has three pets. She enjoys reading and eating lemon chicken.

In his State of the State address last week, Quinn presented what he called the 2012 Illinois Jobs Agenda, which he said includes a mission to have at least 60 percent of adults getting college degrees or career certificates by the year 2025.

Sterling police have identified all threes suspects in the burglary that took place at Broadway Liquors early Wednesday morning.

ROCK FALLS – The Rock Falls Elementary School Board will decide Wednesday whether to sell working cash bonds for building projects.

Sterling police have identified all threes suspects in the burglary that took place at Broadway Liquors early Wednesday morning.

Richard Downey's first day with the village will be on Monday. He enters the position with over 11 years of experience as a municipal administrator.

CHICAGO – State Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride this afternoon announced that the judicial circuit that includes Whiteside County will be the first in which cameras will be allowed in courtrooms.

Workers from Illinois' Emergency Management Agency are collecting water and vegetation samples to check for radioactive tritium around a northern Illinois nuclear plant.

ROCK FALLS – “Foul play is not suspected at this point” in the death of a Rock Falls man whose body was found Thursday behind his apartment, the Whiteside County coroner said Monday.

DIXON – Those wanting to learn or improve their English won't have to head out to Sauk Valley Community College anymore.

MORRISON – Will the media be allowed to use video cameras and recording devices to cover Nicholas T. Sheley's first murder trial in Whiteside County? “It's all timing at this point,” O'Connor told attorneys Friday.

Police and residents are seen at Hampton Apartments in Rock Falls on Thursday after the body of 34-year-old George Chavarria was found.

The body of a man found behind a Rock Falls apartment complex is taken from the scene Thursday afternoon.

Eager to command center stage in a year dominated by Republican infighting, President Barack Obama is polishing a State of the Union address that will go to the heart of Americans' economic anxiety and try to sway voters to give him four more years.

Kyle Mattox of Sterling and Scott Lamb of Rock Falls clear snow from where they will set up their tent for the Boy Scout Walrus Patrol Saturday morning at the Camp Lowden Boy Scout Camp in Oregon.

STERLING – The last suspect wanted in connection with a home invasion at a Sterling apartment complex in December was in the Whiteside County Jail on Friday on a $25,000 bond.

City officials in several communities including Davenport, Iowa and Moline, Illinois declared a snow emergency to help crews working to clear city streets.

Gov. Pat Quinn announced Thursday that he plans to close a Tinley Park mental hospital and a Jacksonville center for people with developmental disabilities as he ramps up efforts to move people out of state institutions and into group homes or other kinds of community care.