Rockford News

Preparing dinner for the family is an every day task for Michael Wilson. "I do cooking, most of the cleaning, kinda like an at home dad," says Michael.

Rockford Fire Officials are calling the factory fire in the Reed Chatwood Building on Rockford's Southwest side suspicious.

It happened shortly before three this afternoon in the 400 hundred block of Underwood, that's on the city's west side.

Police arrested 20-year-old Brittney Evans and 49-year-old Michelle Evans today, for possessing 43 bags of heroin.

The Rockford Apartment Association met with a community outreach officer from the Rockford Police Department tonight, to come up with ways to keep apartment buildings safer.

The city of Rockford was the only bidder for the condemned Church School building on Blaisdell Street.

Rockford School District 205 officials say an elementary student is dead from complications of the H1N1 virus, however the Winnebago County Coroner who did the autopsy says it's too soon to know what caused the death.

There could be some changes to the infrastructure projects Rockford leaders decide to tackle that would fix more of our neighborhood streets, but ax other key projects.

Rock Valley College in Rockford will build a $48.7 million arts instructional center.

The owners of Murphy Transfer and Storage in Rockford have entered into an agreement to redevelop this two block area along Cedar street.. south of the new federal courthouse downtown.

Police say the driver of a Cadillac lost control at State Street and Shaw Street and ran over several signs, trees and a bench before crashing into Bethesda Covenant Church.

Captain Dorothy Carskadon, 47, was shot twice in the hip. She was at Fort Hood preparing to deploy to Afghanistan next month to counsel soldiers dealing with post traumatic stress issues.

Detectives say a 26 year-old man was shot and killed while he was waiting for someone inside the Neighborhood Market.

Authorities say it's a hydrochloric acid spill in the basement of J&M Plating at Kishwaukee St.

If you think adolescents can be scary, you should have met Tyrannosaurus rex . Joe Peterson, a geologist with Northern Illinois University, is shown here with the skeleton of a teenage dinosaur known as Jane.

One of the victim's was a District 205 student. And district leaders are now worried about a spike in gang activity at school.

It happened around 6p.m. in the 100 block of 15th Avenue. Police say a bullet went through the door, hitting the juvenile.

Dr Peterson says other adolescent animals, particularly juvenile crocodiles, exhibit such fighting behaviour.

ROCK FALLS – Cherry Valley-based builder Ringland-Johnson Construction has been awarded the contract for a mental health clinic that is being added to the Whiteside County health clinic.

For the amount of times money changes hands, you might say Target cashier Kris Hall is on the front lines of this war on germs.