Rockford News

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.

A 41-year-old Rockford man has been arrested for allegedly firing a gun on the northeast side, then robbing a nearby video store.

The Rockford jewelry store was named America's Best Jeweler by National Jeweler Magazine.

One person is dead and another is hospitalized after a home invasion in Rockford last night.

A Rockford bridal shop will be closed for the next few days after a fire breaks out there late last night.

Those concerned residents fired questions at local prosecutors Tuesday night trying to find ways to protect themselves from that registered sexual predator.

These weapons have drawn a lot of controversy in the Stateline over the past few years, after a few victims died following tasing incident.

A A A' Joni Lownsdale never thought her 2002 breast cancer diagnosis would land her in the middle of the Obama administration's fight with the health insurance industry.

Mayor Morrissey presented new crime data today at his monthly mayor's meeting, showing serious crime has dropped more than 17.6% compared to 2008.