Colona News

Russ Colona must feel a bit like Old St. Nick in December with his mailbox bulging each day with entries for the 50th Great River Road Run anniversary race.

Richmond Hill Players next production is Mark Brown's comic-adventure adaptation of Jules Verne's “Around the World in 80 Days.” The show will be presented Thursdays through Sundays, Oct.

Police agencies from across the region are learning about a relatively new system to find missing children.

Title: BATTLE BREWING OVER COMMAND AUTHORITY A Pentagon proposal to give the federal government greater authority to mobilize and command Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps Reserve units during domestic disasters and emergencies is on a collision course with National Guard boosters on Capitol Hill who favor giving governors tactical control ...

Authorities have identified a man's body pulled Wednesday from the Rock River. The Rock Island County Coroner confirms it was 45 year old Robert B. Chaney of Colona, Illinois.

The Rock Island County Coroner has identified the body recovered from the Rock River Wednesday afternoon.

Emergency crews are out on the Rock River near Barstow searching for a Colona man who went missing while swimming yesterday.

Emergency crews are out on the Rock River near Barstow searching for a Colona man who went missing while swimming yesterday.

Quad City Botanical Center Art Classes June Sunday afternoons 2:00-3:30pm Location: Indoors and Outdoors Topic: Photography Instructor: Trent Foltz Course Fee: $30.00 per course Quad City Botanical Center 2525 4th Avenue, Rock Island, Il.

Friends of the Canal will hold its monthly “Hike the Canal” outing on Sunday.

An accident in Colona, Illinois sent two people to the hospital this morning. A car pulling out of a gas station on Cleveland Road near the I-80 entrance and exit ramps was hit by an oncoming truck.The pickup broadsided the car sending it into the ditch.

DAVENPORT, Iowa - The eldest daughter of a Colona, Ill., woman who died when her car was struck by a train two years ago has filed a federal lawsuit against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.

A routine traffic stop turned into a meth bust for police in Thursday night in Colona.