Rock Falls News

Barn tour - The Whiteside County Barn Tour, featuring historically unique barns located in the Morrison area of Whiteside County, takes place Saturday and Sunday.

MORRISON – Surrounded by family and friends, Whiteside County Patrol Sgt.

Whiteside County Animal Control worker Kelly Cavazos spends time with a St. Bernard Thursday.

Employees from the JCPenney store at Northland Mall are shown helping prepare items for the Let's Feed Our Children free summer lunch program sponsored by the United Way of Whiteside County.

ROCK FALLS – A Rock Falls man evicted in February and told to clean up his squalid house by May 1 has not complied with that court order, according to the city's attorney.

KEWANEE – A former Rock Falls resident working as a teacher at Kewanee High School is facing charges of sexually assaulting a student, Kewanee police said Tuesday.

Amboy Police Brett Elliott Austin, 32, of Amboy; 1:50 a.m. Sunday; Lee County warrants failure to appear – aggravated assault and failure to appear – battery; transported to Lee County Jail.

Three health centers in Illinois will share $2.6 million in federal stimulus money.

" Today, Rep. Bill Foster announced a health center serving in Rock Falls would receive more than $600,000 from the Recovery Act Capital Improvement Program .

Mr. and Mrs. John “Jack” Keleher of Rock Falls will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. July 5 in Friendship Hall at the Walnut Christian Church.

One year has passed since the horrible killings of a rural Sterling man and four Rock Falls residents.

ROCK FALLS – A group of Whiteside County and area residents is looking for volunteers to help honor World War II veterans with a trip to memorials in Washington, D.C. The Whiteside County Veterans Honor Flight program came together after several local vets were treated to Honor Flights though the organization's hub in the Quad Cities.

Candles stand in vigil Sunday next to a photo of Juan Lopez. Lopez was fatally beaten early Saturday in Sterling.

Bobby Bushman of Sterling pulls a catfish out of the water Sunday at the Arduini boat ramp in Rock Falls.

A Sterling man is murdered and police are on the hunt for a suspect. The victim is 54-year old Juan M. Lopez of Sterling.

MORRISON – The brother of spree-killing defendant Nicholas T. Sheley will be the first person to go to trial in connection with the death of a 93-year-old Sterling man, a Whiteside County judge decided Wednesday.

Christy Cochran leads health care union members to state Rep. Jerry Mitchell's office in Rock Falls to protest Mitchell's vote against a state income tax increase, which they want to pay for human services.

MORRISON – A Rock Falls man told investigators that he robbed a Sterling gas station in February because he was in debt to a drug dealer who threatened to harm his girlfriend if he didn't come up with the money, a police officer testified.

LASALLE – A new conference came to life Monday morning with the naming of the Northern Illinois Big 12.

ROCK FALLS – Arland Street-area homeowners will have to live with their drainage problems for now.