Rockton News

Dian Valentine of Rockford shows off The Smart Hook, a device to help people keep their purses and backpacks safe and clean.

Over the years, Dian Valentine compiled a list of ideas she placed in a manila envelope labeled "inventions." When the 58-year-old Rockford resident lost her job as a special-education teacher 18 months ago, she decided to start looking through the ideas again to see which one could be the key to a new future.

David and Lorraine Socha of Edgar celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving Day with a morning Mass and a Thanksgiving dinner with their family.

Don't let the fact that "Z" is a subtitled film based on an event you've never heard of keep you from watching.

That car belongs to Katie Stockton of Rockton, who's also accused of murdering Baby Crystal.

Cindie Reshel got a housewarming party three years after she bought her house. Thanks to a federal home weatherization program, she just got a new furnace, insulation in her attic, a chimney repair and other help, all for free.

It's a message, Kate Affholder is thankful she never deleted. "Oh there's my phone, gotta run." Affholder is just sentimental that way.

Geneva's Kelly Whitley struggles to the finish like Saturday to win the Leavey Invite at LeRoy Oakes in St.

The public defender representing Katie Stockton of Rockton asked Judge Joseph McGraw for a new judge in both her murder case as well as a previous forgery incident.

The Rockton Police Department is offering a 500 dollar reward to help snag the suspect or suspects responsible for the marking-up of public property.

The Caswell Family Singers will present a concert at the Mount Carroll First Baptist Church, 201South Main Street,at 1:30 pm on Sunday, August 23.

Authorities say skeletal remains of two infants found in the trunk of a car at a northern Illinois impound lot were wrapped in cloth and stuffed in separate plastic bags.

Two infant skeletons found in the trunk of an impounded car owned by an Illinois woman charged with leaving a newborn to freeze on a roadside were wrapped in cloth and stuffed in separate plastic bags, authorities said Monday.

Sheriff Dick Meyers says he and a Chief Deputy returned to the office Saturday for some work on this case while two other investigators were in the field, searching for any connection between the infant bodies and 28-year-old Katie Stockton of Rockton.

Winnebago County authorities say they have found the skeletal remains of two infants in a car owned by a rural Rockton woman accused of leaving her newborn daughter to die of exposure in December 2004.

It was a cold crystal clear night. That's where Baby Crystal doe gets her name. And today the sun shines down on her, now that her alleged killer is caught.

It was a cold crystal clear night. That's where Baby Crystal doe gets her name. And today the sun shines down on her, now that her alleged killer is caught.

Zachary Jensen, a student at Harper College in Palatine, screens dirt for artifacts during a field class at the Macktown Forest Preserve in Rockton.

A car-jacking suspect leads police on a high speed chase from Rock County, into Rockford.

"We are trying to help keep people alive," said Lt. Marty Zumudio with District 16 Police.