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Jim Oberweis, Congressional candidate for the 14th District, greets constituants Thursday in Dixon to discuss how the cost of energy is affecting them.

Al Wickoff and Tom Whelan work on the tail section of the helicopter at Veterans Memorial Park Tuesday afternoon trying to run wire to get the lights working.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Whiteside County State's Attorney Gary Spencer today announced the grand jury indictments of three individuals in connection with last month's murders allegedly committed by ...

The Illinois Attorney General's office will be helping with the case against Nicholas Sheley - "the man suspected in a two - "state killing spree that left eight people dead.

The image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot on her television screen was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind when the mother ventured out to get dinner for the family, warning them to lock the ...

Marcia Frey laid down the law when her daughter and son-in-law, Holly and Nicholas Sheley, moved into her trailer after losing their apartment last month: No alcohol.

Nicholas T. Sheley was a small-town crook who rarely ventured out of the area to commit crimes.

Web Exclusive: "Crime and Punishment", Part 3: Sheley Walked Free After Setting a Murder in Motion The Daily Gazette Jul.

A man suspected in a killing spree that left eight people in two states dead is being transferred to a county where he's charged in one of the slayings.

The man charged with first-degree murder for the beating death of Galesburg man appeared in Knox County Court Thursday afternoon.

Family and friends in Cedar City were grieving Wednesday after 20-year-old Kilynna Blake and her 2-year-old son Dayan Blake were identified as victims of an ex-convict's three-state killing spree.

Now that the man suspected of killing eight people in Illinois and Missouri is in custody, peace of mind is beginning to return to the Whiteside County communities of Rock Falls and Sterling, where five of the ...

More charges are likely for a man suspected in a two-state crime spree that left eight people dead.

Local officers tend to a mourner at the scene where four bodies were discovered at an apartment in Rock Falls, Ill.

Amy Goodell immediately panicked when she learned that four people were found dead in this apartment building two doors down from her Rock Falls home.

Authorities in Illinois have captured an ex-convict suspected of killing eight people in two states.

WHILE AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING AT THE CRIME SCENE IN A NEARBY APARTMENT BUILDING, BOBBIE CLAXTON WAS PLAYING WITH HER THREE CHILDREN IN THE TOWN'S CENTENNIAL PARK.

Police are searching for a 28-year-old convicted felon they say may be connected to a string of 8 killings in Illinois and Missouri in the last week.

Galesburg Police investigate suspicious death HyVee employee finds dead body behind store Fire spreads in Buffalo Two weeks ago, West Front Street was lined with tens of thousands of sandbags.

The manhunt for Nicholas Sheelee continues at this hour in Lee and Whiteside Counties.