Mercer County News

It was exactly a year ago that Elgin deer hunter Pat Crawford started looking through the photos recorded by a motion-activated camera in the back of a friend's tree nursery along Plank Road.

A man bite off another man's finger during a fight in Reynolds, Illinois. That sent Rudy Rudsell of Illinois City to Mercer County Jail Tuesday.

Tattoos and body piercings are a form of expression that have become more and more common.

Chad Lewis is still in many ways a skeptic when it comes to the paranormal. However, even though he's questioned the validity of many of the so-called haunted places he has experienced, he told Mokena residents to go find out for themselves.

ROCK ISLAND, Illinois - The number of confirmed Hepatitis A cases in the Quad Cities climbed again more than one week after the first case was reported.