Rockford News

Volunteers from Michigan are helping at a home on Yonge Street this week. They're doing basic fix-ups for the homeowners.

This summer local police are once again teaming up to give teens a chance to learn how to fight crime.

Prosecutors in Illinois' Lee County on Tuesday filed 12 murder counts against 36-year-old Terence Doddy of Rockford in the July 1 death of 44-year-old Tonya Bargman.

ROCKFORD – A man already facing a first-degree murder charge for a Rockford killing now faces a murder charge in a Lee County death as well.

Nexstar has appointed a new general manager of WOI , its recently-acquired ABC affiliate in Des Moines.

Equipment used in some of the city's most dangerous situations is long overdue to be replaced, a move that gets the green light from Rockford aldermen.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – One of two Rock Falls men wanted in a hit-and-run that left a Sterling man critically injured was arrested Monday morning in Corpus Christi, Texas, and charged with attempted murder.

Businesses like Rockford Memorial Hospital and companies constructing new stores are adding up to about $41 million in construction.

No matter where we live, come September, we'll all have to dig deeper in our wallets to keep the lights on.

A reader asked me recently what I thought about Texas Rangers rookie outfielder Jake Smolinski , who is 11-for-29 in his first nine big league games.

The Greater Rockford Airport Authority and Rock Valley College broke ground on the new RVC Aviation Maintenance Technology Program facility.

T eachers from across the State gathered for the Illinois Teachers Workshop: Rocks, Minerals & Mining in Today's Society, presented by the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers on July 14th-16th at Rockford University in Rockford, Illinois.

Despite some financial woes over the last year or so, an annual event at the Booker Washington Center is still going strong.

A tour involving a lot of pink made a special stop in the Stateline, changing the way we see a symbol of the fire department and a deadly disease.

Metals USA, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has acquired Midwestern service center company J. Rubin & Co., Rockford, Ill.

A man suspected of killing a Monticello mother at a rest stop on July 1 has been indicted for the murder of a high school classmate two days earlier.

Members of the Rockford Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were performing service projects around the Stateline today.

Employment agencies offer several services for active job seekers. Most provide listings of employers that have current job openings.

While everyone tries to answer the questions left from today's plane crash, Ukrainians are still in need of help and on the ground.

A 24 year old man is shot in his hand during a drive by shooting that happened sometime after midnight Wednesday.