Lee County News

Battery Two visiting caretakers at a home on the 3500 block of Walnut St. got into a verbal and then a physical confrontation, Wilmette Police reports state.

The recreational center, equipped with six pool tables, Laser Tag, a jukebox, a claw machine and assorted video games, tabbed itself as a safe haven for them.

DIXON – Statements made to police by an Aurora man accused of sexually abusing two girls should be thrown out because he wasn't read his rights and because he lacked the mental ability to understand the meaning of the interview, his attorney says.

Police believe Fry-Pitzen's SUV was parked on a wide gravel shoulder, gravel road or short gravel turnout near an asphalt road.

Sen. Tim Bivins, R-Dixon, voted with many of his fellow Senate Republicans this week against a pension bill sponsored by Democratic Senate President John Cullerton of Chicago.

Last year, more than 30,000 pounds of food was collected by letter carriers in Rock Falls, Sterling and Dixon.

DIXON – A motion to again reduce the bond of a Dixon man accused of sexually abusing a teenager will be heard June 6 in Lee County Court.

Emergency workers start to uncover four people 'trapped under debris' Wednesday afternoon during a joint Lee/Ogle disaster exercise.

Emergency officials in Lee and Ogle counties get a lesson in how to react in a real tornado disaster.

Former Dixon Comptroller, Rita Crundwell, is out of a Boone County Jail cell. The Federal Bureau of Prisons moved her to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.

On May 1, 2013 at 4:30pm, the Dixon Police Department arrested 33-year-old Ted Valdes, of North Ottawa Avenue, Dixon, Illinois in relation to an ongoing drug investigation in Dixon.

But let's face it: This scandal will stick with the community for years. No one is going to forget that a top city official made off with nearly $54 million.

DIXON – Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all remaining charges against a former city comptroller who recently began serving a lengthy federal prison sentence for stealing nearly $54 million from her northern Illinois community.

At the first meeting to talk about establishing a youth center Tuesday, 14 people, including Lee County State's Attorney Anna Sacco-Miller and Dixon YMCA Executive Director Andrew McFarlane, showed up at the Loveland Community House and Museum to share ideas.

ROCHELLE – Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood have been invited to attend today's groundbreaking on an expansion of Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, which was made possible through the extension of the Lee County Enterprise Zone.

DIXON – Lee County State's Attorney Anna Sacco-Miller will have a news conference Tuesday after a scheduled hearing in the Rita Crundwell case, she announced Monday.

The proposed 1 percent sales tax to fund public school facilities gained approval from voters in just a quarter of the precincts in Whiteside County, but school officials are not discouraged.

On Friday, Judge David Jeffrey rejected requests to dismiss Steve Sandholm's case against NRG Media, parent company of local radio station WIXN; its general manager, Al Knickrehm; and several students' parents.

State Sen. Bill Brady , a Bloomington Republican, speaks with Greg Witzleb, Lee County Republican Party chairman, Friday evening at the Lincoln Day dinner in Rock Falls.

DIXON – Lee County's zoning board rejected a proposed wind farm Wednesday, reversing its traditional support for such projects.