East Moline News Archives

MOLINE – Democrat Dennis Ahern filed petitions Thursday to run for the 71st Legislative District seat being vacated by state Rep.

Bank on it! Every trip has a surprise. We were in Iowa, headed east on Interstate 80, just north of the Quad Cities - Davenport, Iowa, and Moline, Rock Island and East Moline, Ill.

YASH Technologies of East Moline Ill. has launched inREACH , an on-demand web-based tool for managing REACH compliance.

A new U.S. Justice Department policy easing up on the prosecution of people using medical marijuana is expected to affect pending IIlinois legislation.

With one former Illinois governor in prison and another facing corruption charges, the state's Senate decided Thursday to let voters choose whether they want the power to recall crooked governors in the future.

A sad ending to the disappearance of Alice Rodelius. East Moline police say her body was found in Bureau County.

Authorities say an elderly East Moline woman missing since Tuesday evening has been found dead near Princeton.

The missing elderly female from East Moline was found dead Thursday morning in Princeton Illinois.

State Rep. Mike Boland will not run for a ninth term in the Illinois House but will seek a different venue of public service.

EAST MOLINE – State Rep. Mike Boland, the 8-term Democrat from Illinois' 71st District, will not seek re-election to the General Assembly.

Gov. Pat Quinn vowed Thursday at Black Hawk College in Moline to do whatever it takes to restore college grant funding to low-income students as early as next week or at the latest by the end of the month.

The Rock Island Arsenal is working to forge its future by building public-private partnerships with civilian companies.

It was quite a work-out getting a fitness center in East Moline cleaned up after a car crashed into the storefront early Monday morning.

A Quad City Elementary School is seeing a rise in students calling in sick with flu-like symptoms.

Police need your help finding the person who they say ran over a woman on purpose in East Moline.

U.S. death tolls have risen steadily since President Barack Obama's decision to send 21,000 more troops to Afghanistan to curb the growing Taliban-led insurgency.

Lawmakers are focusing on dangerous driving. Transportation officials and experts are in Washington for a two day "Distracted Driving Summit." According to the Obama Administration, nearly 6,000 deaths and a half a million injuries last year were blamed on driver distraction.