Dixon, IL News

• Dixon, IL News
• Two released from hospital following motorcycle accident
• Welcome Home: Sterling native retiring to focus on family
• Red Apple fire cause still being investigated
• Fire destroys two barns in Steward
• Motorcyclist in critical condition
• Open for Business: The Silicon Wrench
• Libraries hope patrons get with the programs
• Enforcement of pool rules may increase
• A safe bet for local cities?
• Welcome Home: Wiggins proves it's more than a 'man's world'
• Rolling Thunder commander
• Welcome Home: Knapp seeing the world, and helping it
• Welcome Home: Williams finds 'purpose' in military service
• Welcome Home: Dad's home and the kids are ready to play
• Welcome Home: Officer returns to daughter, new home
• Counties' spending vastly different on coroners' budgets
• Mobile home destroyed by fire
• Burning power line in Sterling
• Police: Missing kids vandalized Dixon home to tune of $10,000
• Morrison bars opening Sundays? City could lift ban
• Veterans memorial project to start in Milledgeville Tuesday
• Sandholm defense: Dismiss suit
• Sterling man gets 16 years for 2009 home invasion
• Morrison could lift Sunday bar ban
• Two Dixon men hurt in crash
• Sterling High School wins national recognition
• Veterans Memorial project to start Tuesday
• Energy company gets OK from federal regulators
• Sandholm's defense again seeks to have suit dismissed
• Unemployment rates down in the Sauk Valley
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Fire at Red Apple restaurant in Sterling
• Fire damages Red Apple
• Money taken from Dixon Rural account
• Money taken from Dixon Rural Fire's pension account
• Tales from the Tomb III: A walking tour of historic Grand Detour Cemetery
• Tales from the Tomb III
• What's going on
• Washington principal retiring
• Washington Elementary principal retiring
• June Street Fair features art, music, demonstrations
• Chair-ity auction extended to June 15
• Free Friday concerts return in Dixon
• Mayfest returns with music, food, crafts, car show
• Number of Dixon parks questioned
• Number of parks in district questioned
• Sigma Pi revokes IWU fraternity’s charter
• Creston man gets 5 years in drive-by
• Donations sought for community picnic
• Some pushing for administrator in Lee County
• Newman valedictorian: The pavement has been laid
• Morrison official says meeting a waste of time
• Fitzgerald announces resignation
• Dixon students skip school, prompting mini manhunt
• Dixon kids found safe, police say
• 'Greening' of Reagan Middle School grounds
• Morrison administrator gets another year
• Column: (Almost) All things Crundwell
• Three accused of store break-in
• Warbirds over Whiteside
• Free lunches come with lending library
• Physics in Rock Falls student’s future
• Sterling Commons shopping center expanding
• Man sentenced for burglary, theft at stores
• Dixon Park District budget shows 'inequity'
• Morrison administrator reappointed
• Information sought on hit-and-run
• Local shopping center to expand
• Sterling man gets 4 years for selling coke, stealing TVs
• Local man sentenced for burglary, theft at stores
• Dixon Park District budget shows inequity, parks director says
• No new leads, tips in ATM thefts
• Sweet treat in Dixon
• Ingleside man found dead after party
• No cause of death yet in garage fire
• Sterling Schools to meet Wednesday
• Sterling City Council passes gaming ordinance
• Pastor with breast cancer uses experience to relate to her congregants
• Three local math teams compete at state
• Man found dead after party
• Amboy Fire Protection District leaders get backing
• Dixon mayor apologizes to residents
• Sauk board caps costs for science wing
• Opinions vary on Morrison administrator
• Poppy Days return to Rock Falls
• Police still looking for Sterling tire vandal
• Column: Why the change? Look at life cycle
• Helping Spc. Michael Shoemaker Jr.
• IDNR: Turbines threaten species
• Dixon mayor mum on legal firm
• Riverdale open house draws final class
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Report: Turbines likely to harm species
• Morrison project gets second chance
• Column: Stopping by a farmers market on Saturday morning
• Lyndon village board members haven’t resigned after all
• Honoring those who sacrificed
• Two charged in Ogle residential burglary
• What were the red flags of fraud in Dixon?
• Lee County committees to meet Tuesday
• High school graduations planned this weekend
• Local homeowners may get letters from Bank of America
• Longtime teachers leaving Merrill
• Discovering family ties in Rock Falls
• Cycle business revs up for Tampico man
• Stripling ready to retire as Challand 'facilitator'
• Sun block in the Sunday forecast
• Reaching their bases in 17th District race
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Sterling felon gets 7 years in weapons case
• Adams trial still on track
• Area school districts brace for state cuts
• LASC accused of lewd liquor code violation
• Whooping cough cases increase in Whiteside County
• Dixon teen fighting rare cancer
• Police arrest eight after monthslong sting
• Shaw newspaper, citizen honored by Oregon Chamber of Commerce
• Sheriff: Man wanted on old DUI case
• Dixon to join Big Northern in sports
• Former banker dies in garage fire
• Concert, auction to benefit wounded soldier
• ‘Country is where my heart is at’
• Dixon Municipal Band hurting for money
• Who Else invites all to Band Jam
• Hear more Tales from the Tomb
• Teachers take to the offensive in pension protest
• Dixon School Board says put sales tax on ballot
• 54-year-old shoots, kills himself during police raid
• Witness: Put turbines farther away
• New Lee County website wins applause
• Morrison: Refinancing would help pay bills
• Committee formed to deal with landfill company in Lee County
• Teachers take to the offensive in penion protest
• Sheley trial delayed until September
• Mock found not guilty
• Dixon man loses truck to electrical fire
• Fire breaks out in Oregon
• WWII dog tag on its way home
• State marshal investigates fires at mobile home park
• Dixon School Board to vote on putting tax hike on the ballot
• State’s attorney: Sheriff needs more manpower
• Merger report coming later this month to East Coloma School district
• Learning isn't a drag
• Whiteside County’s nonunion workers get pay hikes
• 'Day at the Beach' in Franklin Grove
• Rock Falls City Council clears way for gaming machines
• Column: FAQs about Crundwell’s horses, mayor
• More work next week on Route 2
• Judge denies Adams' motion to toss confession
• Garbage fire in Rock Falls
• Mock: Xavier seemed 'fine'
• Mock takes the stand, denies shaking baby
• Lee County rejects new wind rules
• Malloy ordained as Rockford bishop
• Blessing of the Bikes
• Where is missing Aurora kindergartner?
• Police still looking for ATM thieves
• Dixon says recording the meetings legal
• Open house Wednesday for new kitchen incubator
• Rock Falls set to OK video gaming in bars
• Column: Life in the post-Crundwell era
• Earnhardt race car star of Sports Day at Winning Wheels
• DHS concert band will perform Sunday
• Morrison City Council says no to debt
• Rock Falls High School Board OKs new student discipline system
• Regulators fine Rock Falls insurance agent
• Airport chief says he speaks for self
• Defense likely to rest today in Patti Mock trial
• Police: About 40 vehicles’ tires punctured in Sterling
• Tire-puncturing vandal hits about 40 vehicles, Sterling police say
• Dixon hires interim comptrollers
• Second Saturdays fundraiser in Dixon
• Morrison plans to raze building
• Column: Watching Crundwell-related story take off
• Lee County zoning chairman resigning
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Local letter carriers 
collect 30,000 pounds for food drive
• Missing NIU student believed to be safe
• New salary decided for Bureau County coroner
• Tickets available for Reagan home raffles
• Police reports for Monday, May 14, 2012
• State park patrons worry about impact of proposed fees
• Thieves break in, steal ATM machines from Sterling mall, restaurant
• Making a rain forest at Dillon school
• Honored SVCC alum likes a challenge
• County has big plans: Money sought for paths, streets, visitor-training center for Dixon
• Open for Business: Johnny's Resale
• Carrying the flame for fighting disease
• Sauk grads ready for their turn
• Firefighters called when ‘controlled’ burn spreads
• Paw Paw man charged with sex crime
• Protesters want Dixon mayor out
• Special meeting Monday: Council set to hire interim comptrollers
• One injured in two-vehicle accident
• Patti Mock trial: Defense focuses on baby sitter’s fingernails
• Walking for funds at St. Mary's
• Feeding the ducks in Rock Falls
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Bring peanut butter, jelly to church Sunday
• Sheriff warns of phone scam
• Riverfront development moving along behind the scenes
• Route 40 work to start Thursday
• Sheley's defense seeks new trial date
• Expert: No evidence baby was shaken
• Mangy ‘monster’ gives Rock Falls woman scare
• Independent We Stand coming to Sterling
• Local school districts win grants
• Two Sterling women injured in crash
• Casting off with a bit of luck in Dixon
• The circus stops in Sterling
• Board OKs fund transfer for new boilers
• Judge denies motion to acquit Mock of murder
• Retired? Your skills may be needed
• Jury acquits businessman in Election Day clash
• Well switchovers 'progressing,' water superintendent says
• Township’s protest passes muster after all
• Students take on poverty at home, abroad at Reagan Middle School
• Former Sterling mayor dies in Florida
• Route 2 resurfacing starts Friday
• Battle of the Bands needs warriors
• Crane holds up traffic in Dixon
• Tracking ‘dinosaurs of the prairie'
• Dixon mayor points out the positives
• Whiteside County officials to seek senior center audit
• Back by popular demand, Crundwell FAQs, round 2
• Whooping cough cases up to 13
• District 13 to vote on $1.8 million in renovations
• Ohio couple charged with selling pills, mushrooms
• Volunteers needed for Sterling's annual cleanup
• Boy hit, injured in parking lot
• Democrats nominate candidates for state House, Congress
• Supporters want to know where the money has gone
• Prosecutors rest in Mock trial; testimony resumes Thursday
• Donating blankets to KSB Hospital
• Newman grad offers advice for college-bound students
• ‘Many eyes’ to prevent fraud, Sterling official says
• Two part-timers may be out of work after Riverdale annexation
• Mixed reaction from residents who crowd council chambers
• Sterling sells two more homes in Neighborhood Stabilization
• Pediatrician in infant death case: Baby's brain tissue damaged
• Column: SVM tries to uncover ‘plunging necklines’
• Paying at the pump saves about 10 percent on costs in Lee County
• IFH has new president
• Crundwell pleads not guilty to wire fraud
• Column: Plenty of time to make voice heard in development proposal
• Help us 'Welcome Home' our troops
• Police identify woman killed by train Friday
• Dixon may allow gambling machines, tax revenue
• Dixon works to provide more info on agendas, website
• Dixon residents get chance to speak to council tonight
• Sterling official: Red flags stood out in Dixon
• Whooping cough spreads in western Whiteside
• Twin Cities Talk: Plenty of time to make voice heard in development proposal
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Local author: Everyday games boost math skills
• Dixon scandal has others asking, Could it happen here?
• Remembering Khan: 'His patients revered him'
• Remembering Kahn: 'His patients revered him'
• Firing away at the Gun Club
• A 'catastrophic' turn for child care
• A mayor's difficult decision
• May Crowning at St. Anne School
• Hydrant flushing starts Monday in Dixon
• Detective says department is listening to public's tips
• Morrison man gets jail, probation for home invasion
• Crundwell plea due Monday in federal court
• NCCHS Student of the Month: Adam Wiegmann
• Two-car accident in rural Sterling
• Man drowns trying to save son in Rock River
• KSB doctor drowns trying to save son
• Woman struck, killed by train in Sterling
• Roadwork planned for next week
• Projects start next week on Polo bridge, Prophet Road
• Wall of downtown Lanark building collapses
• Doctor testifies he was 'wrong' about baby's CT scan
• School has last Family Fun Night
• Lanark couple injured in motorcycle crash
• Praying at a community event
• Rock Falls backs sewer line insurance company
• Wind company may need Deer Grove's OK
• Bland knows her business
• Public invited to gun club's open house
• Petunia Festival's country concert to make comeback
• Sterling man charged with selling crack
• Eldena soldier dealing with injuries
• Longtime Morris Septic owner retires
• Dixon police release name of armed robbery suspect
• Chicago man sought in April armed robbery
• Granddaughter, emergency responders testify in Mock trial
• Marshals take over maintenance of Crundwell property, horses
• CEO: Turbines would disturb wildlife
• Proposal for dog pound plan in Lee County withdrawn
• Crundwell's horses spread across the country
• Morrison woman injured on bike
• 2 men jailed on drug charges in Sterling
• Sterling mayor backs proposed housing project
• Scenario played out elsewhere
• P&P plant opens in Sterling
• Baby’s parents testify on the first day of Patti Mock trial
• Opening arguments focus on cause of baby's fatal injury
• May Crowning at St. Mary School
• State penalizes Milledgeville credit union
• First Avenue Bridge project right on schedule
• Democrat aiming to challenge Kinzinger
• Column: Frequently asked questions on the Crundwell case
• Shaken baby case: Opening arguments to be heard today
• Ashton man gets 5 years for abusing Sterling teen
• Rock Falls receives annual home rehab grant
• Indictment: Crundwell defrauded $53 million since 1990
• Montmorency School students participate in incubation, embryology program
• Fishing along the Rock River
• 2-month police investigation leads to drug arrests
• Garbage truck tips, spills its load; driver injured
• Judge hears confession debate in Adams murder case
• Column: A look at the Telegraph in the 1970s
• Dixon High School bathrooms, lockers to be upgraded
• Raises OK’d for SVCC adjunct, nonfaculty staff
• Agency seeks to help disabled residents
• Rules to protect young farm workers pulled
• 42-year-old Rock Falls man charged with sex crime
• Armed robber will be resentenced in May
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Federal lawsuit: Crundwell didn't pay workers
• Workers reflect on GE's role in Morrison
• Column: Students offer thoughts on community, futures
• What happens to Crundwell's loans, assets?
• 'Hands Around the Courthouse' rally in Dixon
• Open for Business: Simply Sweet Inc.
• Piecing Crundwell together
• Trial starts Monday in baby’s death
• New Prophetstown Main Street director a longtime local volunteer
• Rock Falls city clerk has history of service, involvement
• Business Notebook: Longtime area baker opens bakery
• SHS Student of the Month: Sarah Gascoigne
• Residents gather outside Dixon City Hall to voice their anger
• Trial starts Monday in baby Xavier's death
• Undercover cops won't be videotaped, judge rules at Sheley trial
• Planting trees on Arbor Day
• Man charged with selling heroin/Oxycodone mix
• Dixon residents gather outside City Hall to voice their anger
• Wildflower walk, fossil hunt on
• Mitchell named Republican of the Year at dinner
• Open for Business: Simply Sweet Inc.
• Destinations added to Chicago tours
• Lee County State’s Attorney Henry Dixon: Lawyer tries ‘legal extortion’
• Welcome to the Other Side
• Rock Falls needs new $600,000 well
• Lee County plan for dog pound suffers setback
• Bank robber sentenced: Heroin addict gets 4 years, 4 months
• Lee County State’s Attorney: Lawyer tries 'legal extortion'
• New Rock Falls club provides teens a secure place to hang out, owner says
• Dixon residents discuss their dream sports complex
• Lee County plan takes pounding
• Ohio heroin addict gets 4 years, 4 months
• Sterling woman new Reagan Boyhood Home director
• Fourth Fridays goes tropical in April
• Farmers planting earlier this year
• City had fidelity bond on Crundwell
• Proposed animal shelter in Dixon draws opposition
• Stepdad faces sentencing for battery
• Felon charged with having gun, marijuana
• Boards to host sports complex discussion
• ‘This is almost surreal’
• Proposed shelter draws opposition
• Sterling man faces August sentencing for aggravated battery
• Rock Falls man gets jail, probation, must register as a sex offender
• Felon charged with having a gun, marijuana
• All invited to community picnic
• Eagle’s Nest spring show starts Saturday
• Lantern release postponed
• Tea anyone?
• Former statehouse candidate says transparency is good first step
• Sellers can’t cash gold buyer’s checks can’t be cashed
• Chicago-based mission buys Orchard View
• New, ‘affordable’ housing coming to Sterling
• Members differ on recording of meetings
• Panel disbands at end of meeting
• Column: Behind the scenes of the Crundwell coverage
• State police: Lyndon audit shows nothing criminal
• Local schools present sexual assault awareness information to keep students safe
• Crundwell case: Warrants revealed
• Feds release fruit of Crundwell search warrants
• Dillon Elementary students learn about careers
• Students learn about careers at Dillon
• Morrison may reduce Main Street speed limit
• Retirement party for chamber chief Friday
• Column: Council member says 'Our cash flow is very tight'
• Comptroller worked horse shows around city job
• Sterling native to cycle across country to raise money for people with disabilities
• School board assumes Riverdale debt, expels eighth-grader
• Marine to return in July
• Marine Adam Devine to return in July
• Dixon fires Crundwell
• Crundwell fired
• Kiwanis groups prepare Reagan home for season
• Expert: This case is 'huge,' 'extraordinary'
• Earth Day cleanup
• Group: Citizens can record open public meetings
• Lawyer: Wind objections properly filed
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Column: Cities must take risks on way to better future
• Kiwanis groups give Reagan home a helping hand
• Dixon Habitat breaks ground on 18th house
• Dixon Habitiat breaks ground on 18th house
• Know Your Neighbors: Karen Sanders and Jenna Hickey
• Dixon event to honor community servants
• Prophet Road closure starts Monday
• Girl, 4, hit by car, suffers minor injuries
• College, career center coming to RFHS
• Objections to cameras at Mock trial denied
• Not your average teacher
• Dixon arrest may impact horse industry
• A home for Lena
• Espinoza: 'Better to confront an issue'
• Behavioral science program offered
• Crundwell removed from city website
• Career Day at Dillon Elementary School
• Recall not an option
• 'A good time was had by all'
• Sterling police looking for information on fight
• Dixon takes media attention in stride
• Hare: Democrats need to re-energize
• Two arrested in car burglary
• Appraisers differ on turbines’ effects
• Council set to fire Crundwell
• City to consider immediate dismissal of Crundwell
• Crundwell ‘a dominant person in the industry’
• How did the auditors miss the missing millions?
• Wind energy company bypasses Deer Grove
• Board meeting moved to noon Friday
• Seeberg: Townships' objections not properly filed
• Board member: ‘A bridge to nowhere’?
• Rock Falls native is Big Apple bound
• What's going on
• Sculpture worth double offer from Zadkine, appraiser says
• New turf a go; basketball coach resigns
• Fulton working on capital improvement plan
• Crundwell free on $4,500 bond
• OREGON Missing teen found safe in Rockford
• Missing Oregon teen found safe in Rockford
• Mayor lays out plan in wake of her arrest
• Dixon plans preventive measures
• Man dies in rural Sterling crash
• Burke calls events of day ‘traumatic’
• Volunteers prepare for book giveaway
• Polo police seek information in garage, vehicle break-ins
• Local superintendents: Consolidation should be decided locally
• Lee County Board Chairman: Man broke law by recording meeting
• New Rock Falls Chamber of Commerce leader selected
• Police: Missing teen may be in Rockford
• Comptroller stole millions, feds say
• FBI arrests Dixon comptroller
• Lee County board delays vote on wind farm rule changes
• Tax returns prepared for free
• Volunteers help nearly 2,000 with tax returns prepared for free
• Citizens group seeks challenger for Kinzinger
• Dixon City Council moves ahead on two big projects
• Sterling mayor cites city’s accomplishments
• Board to vote on bus contract, field work
• Sterling City Council approves deficit budget
• Group seeks challenger for Kinzinger
• Smaller towns targeted for lower electric rates
• Dixon moves ahead on two big projects
• School board calls special meeting
• Sterling mayor cites city's accomplishments in first State of the City report
• Column: Wind farm project has backing, but it's quiet so far
• Sterling School Board to vote on bus contract, field work
• Used book sale begins today at SVCC
• Sterling High student expelled this year and next
• Volunteers needed for Hennepin Feeder Canal cleanup
• Rock Falls school board calls special meeting to discuss debt, student discipline
• Some damage reported after weekend storms
• Lightning starts fire at Coleta barn
• Three charged in Stillman Valley break-ins
• Column: How about a museum?
• Transit bids over budget
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Phil Hare to speak at Sterling library on Thursday
• Construction of Lee-Ogle transit facility delayed, bids over budget
• Fire causes moderate damage to Rock Falls garage, house Sunday
• One injured in crash near campground
• Youngest Whiteside County Board member resigns
• Altona milk truck driver dies in crash east of Morrison
• Flash mob in Dixon
• Ogle man fires gun during police call
• Goal in sight for SHS turf drive
• Morthland talks independent living
• Open for Business: Sauk Valley Cleaners and Tuxedos
• Sterling stormwater utility fee still taking shape
• Decision time on Lee County wind rules
• Brianna Henson, 17, of Sterling, is Newman
• Your Weekend Top 5
• YWCA recognizes community’s pearls
• Lee County Board member dies at 60
• Man charged with stabbing couple in their home pleads not guilty, asks for jury trial
• Man charged in Amboy gas line incident
• Injured soldier improves, typing on computer
• Sauk Valley Community College shows off new facilities
• Crime-fighting group needs your 'eyes and ears'
• Expert says wind foes dislike turbines’ looks
• Sterling School board OKs $285,000 
bid for pavement work
• Sauk Valley Community College earns accreditation for next 10 years
• P-town fire district gets federal money
• Coroner: Fraternity member died of hypothermia
• Mitchell pleads not guilty, asks for jury trial
• Amboy man charged in gas line incident
• Injured soldier typing on computer
• SVCC shows off new facilities
• Couple escapes unharmed as fire destroys house
• Local crime-fighting group holds first meeting, seeks people to help battle drugs and gangs
• Half of Lyndon's board resigns in protest
• Route 30 bridge cleaning starts
• Amboy hit with vehicle break-ins
• Sauk earns accreditation for next 10 years
• Man found not guilty on rape charges
• Founders Days celebration in Dixon
• Founders Day celebration in Dixon
• Motorist cited in crash; woman remains critical
• Concert to raise money for Relay for Life
• Dixon’s Tim Drane finds his inner artist
• Rock Falls school board approves teacher contracts
• Local leaders forming River Action Group to promote tourism
• Men face stolen property charges in Whiteside
• Longtime Dixon librarian to retire
• Official: $200,000 max for Sterling youth center
• Motorist cited in crash; Dixon woman remains critical
• School board approves teacher contracts
• Leaders forming River Action Group
• Men face stolen property charges
• Longtime librarian to retire
• Sterling Township official: No more than $200,000 for center
• Homing Pigeon Racing
• Judge allows suit to proceed
• Forum on battling drugs, gangs Thursday in Sterling
• Township to resurface roads
• Director, aide at 
senior center quit
• Dixon woman, 79, in critical condition after crash
• Dixon police to crack down on Riverfront rowdies
• Fire reported in Prophetstown
• Coroner: Man was drunk, drowned at White Pines State Park
• Morrison's nonunion employees get stipend
• Sterling Township surpluses may benefit teen club
• Route 26 to go to one lane
• Federal judge allows Byron Adams suit to proceed
• Signature petunias wait for their May Day
• June start for road resurfacing in Dixon
• A million for Montmorency School
• Sauk texting event canceled
• Sheriff, Morrison PD install drug drop box
• Little seedlings: Signature petunias wait for their May Day
• Leaf River man ruled fit to stand trial in stabbings
• Police to crack down on Riverfront rowdies
• Coroner: Rochelle man was drunk, drowned
• Surpluses may benefit teen club
• University suspends fraternity until 2015
• Fraternity gets 3-year suspension
• Catching air at Oregon Park West
• Column: Wind firm gets no backing at hearing
• Lee County official focused on timely assessments
• Water line insurance solicitation not at city’s request
• Damaged gas line in Amboy causes evacuation; driver sought
• Let's go fly a kite
• Dixon City Council trying to close budget gap
• Morrison keeps preservation rules
• Dixon sex offender charged in two new cases
• Police provide photos of suspected robber
• Panel recommends advertising job openings in multiple places
• Rock Falls Elementary School Board to vote on building projects
• Cause of Sterling garage fire not yet known
• Sterling sets movie schedule for new summer program
• Dixon City Council trying to close budget gap, higher utility taxes and fees on table
• Official focused on timely assessments
• Morrison keeps historic preservation rules
• Two injured after driver apparently falls asleep
• Lee County departments handle job postings in different ways
• Damaged gas line causes evacuation; driver sought
• Rock Falls school board to vote on building projects
• Easter Eggstravaganza in Sterling
• Few usually attend township meetings in Sauk Valley
• Easter celebration in Rock Falls draws close to 95
• Sterling Township reports surplus
• Garage fire in Sterling
• Police seeking purse-snatcher
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Easter Egg Hunt at the Meadows
• Column: Working at the committee level
• ‘A nice way to give back’ at Easter celebration
• Sterling agency reports surplus
• Tracking eggs in Dixon
• Open for Business: The Cooler
• Sterling School Board to determine disciplinary matter at special meeting
• Two cities with one future
• 10 years later, cross still marks site of tragedy
• A 24/7 connection to drug, alcohol recovery
• Business notebook
• Amish in Whiteside forming own fire department
• Other schools tout advantage of home turf
• RFHS Student of the Month
• Know Your Neighbor: Karla Brooks
• Family: 'Positive morning' for wounded soldier
• Music to his ears: Implant restores man's hearing
• Big crowd at wind debate no surprise for Whiteside County
• Your Weekend Top 5
• 15-year-old charged with sexual assault
• Woman pleads guilty to Harmon burglaries
• Health rankings improve for area
• Dixon man gets probation for duct-taping boy
• Rolling Thunder welcomed home
• Update: Accidents cause street closures in Dixon
• Accidents close streets; no one injured
• Educating at the Tunnel of Oppression
• Whiteside County residents oppose wind farm
• Sandholm lawsuit has pending motions for dismissal
• One more payment to go for Veterans Memorial Park
• Family 
visits injured soldier
• Bank robber gets 2 years, 3 months
• Group sponsoring free Easter dinner
• More ‘heated’ talk about downtown Oregon plans
• Sheriff worries about mental health cuts
• Astec Mobile Screens having open house
• Donate online to injured soldier's family
• Fraternity suspended after White Pines tragedy
• Oregon man wins art contest
• Golf course in foreclosure
• Lee County Board official: No delays on wind rules
• Rock Falls man gets 6 years for gun, drug conviction
• Police: ‘Promising leads’ in knife robbery
• Police say Dixon man was selling morphine, marijuana
• Police prepare for worst with school shooting exercise
• Two arrested 
Tuesday in cocaine case
• Injured soldier brought to U.S.
• Column: Jobless numbers aren't exact science
• 1644th returning home Thursday
• Bomb threat shuts down Rock Falls businesses for about an hour
• Sterling man accused of dealing marijuana near school
• Kinzinger says people want a new perspective
• Downtown Dixon attains historic status
• Column: Attorney puts SVM reporter in his place
• Building trades program axed
• Should employers ask candidates for Facebook passwords?
• Bakers need to find another space
• Lee County panel: Delay vote on wind rules
• Dixon wants suggestions for summer street maintenance project
• Dixon woman accosted at knifepoint
• Family: Soldier shows signs of progress
• Sterling stormwater utility fee closer to reality
• Easter Egg Hunt in Rock Falls
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• 1940 Census data available
• Downtown Fulton gets historic designation; Dixon, Morrison also aim for list
• Lee County soldier severely hurt in Afghanistan
• Easter Egg Hunt in Dixon
• Hundreds of firefighters practice extrication in Amboy
• Fulton downtown gets historic designation
• Lee County soldier severely hurt
• Little Leepertown school district agrees to dissolve
• Column: Employers liking job seekers’ Facebook
• Art on display in Dixon
• Witness objections to filming under review in Sheley Case
• Police looking for Walmart burglar
• Case conference delayed in Mary Jane Reed lawsuit
• Son of attorney charged after fire at family home
• Hospitals gear up as high court deliberates
• Open for Business: Nails Spa
• Beef-A-Roo redo? Owner working on site
• Breaking down the drug chain
• Dixon Student of the Month
• Path plans pushing forward
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Presenting the Sauk Valley Community Concert Association lineup
• Sauk Valley unemployment numbers improve, but still higher than state average
• Former Fulton man gets 10 years for drug trafficking
• Dixon artist's profile airs tonight on public TV
• KSB hones in on community partnership
• Wind turbines plan gets a hearing
• Sterling man charged with selling crack
• McDonald’s open in Morrison
• Into the jumble
• Time short for turf fund drive
• Into the jumble: Park district adds 'rummage sale' to farmers market
• Time short for Sterling turf funding
• Readying the Riverfront for spring
• 1644th coming home
• Following God's plan: Sterling man enjoys helping families in need
• Rock Falls police look for suspect in stolen credit card case
• CGH CEO Andersen retiring; local doctor to replace him
• Dixon man charged in door-to-door scam
• Whiteside County Housing Authority appealing lower rating
• Clean Line status hearing postponed
• 1644th expected to return 
next week
• Lee, Ogle courtrooms opened to cameras
• What's going on
• Local women find their bliss in harmony
• Women in fair condition after rollover near Shannon
• Sterling man following God's plan
• Cameras in the courtrooms: State Bar Association supports openness
• Rock Falls woman heals through education
• Police look for suspect in stolen credit card case
• Tunnel of Oppression returns to Sauk
• Clean Line Energy status hearing postponed
• Waste bags available from Sterling Township garage
• Area courtrooms opened to cameras
• CGH CEO Andersen retiring; Steinke to replace him
• Stocking up in Rock Falls
• A new kind of chair-ity
• Proposed wind turbine setback distance would be state's longest
• New Whiteside County history book in the works
• Silent auction of artistic endeavors to raise money for beautification projects
• No free Jeep for former resident
• Boat launch site in dispute
• Oregon man gets second 2-year sentence in child porn case
• Two Sterling teens receive probation
• Column: The case of the missing owner
• Sterling liquor thief gets 
concurrent sentences
• Driver in sword robbery pleads guilty, gets probation
• Company trying to set energy pathway
• Morrison well project's costs could double
• Third defendant gets probation
• Proposed wind setback would be state’s longest
• Man gets second 2-year sentence in child porn case
• Council: Sell crumbling Morrison building
• Update: Company trying to set energy pathway through northern Illinois
• Sterling Student of the Month
• Sterling Student of the Month
• Morrison official: Lower Main Street speed limit
• SVCC faculty get raises, higher health insurance costs
• Does Dixon School Board want a sports complex?
• Engineer: First Avenue Bridge project ahead of schedule
• Sterling woman upgraded to serious condition
• New Christian radio station comes to area
• Operating as 'one community'
• Coroner: Fall, head injury killed Rock Falls man
• Local woman sold Vicodin, police say
• Column: Visiting state capital well worth the trip
• iPads make learning a game
• Sublette bank still addressing 'unsound practices'
• Know Your Neighbor: Harley Canas
• Harley Canas, 13, of Rock Falls, is a seve
• Where to take visitors from out of town
• Doggie Egg Hunt in Sterling
• Child Fair at Sauk
• Prophetstown family hurt in crash
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Morrison council to discuss proposed fee hikes
• Iowa man charged with DUI after hitting power pole
• P-town family hurt after van T-boned
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Freeport native launches magazine
• Fee hikes on council table
• Open Hand Self Defense
• Probation for man charged in home invasion
• ‘It’s about religious freedom’
• Asbestos must be removed before science lab renovations
• Rain forest animals pay a visit
• Lee County Board member explains absence
• Making sure the shows go on
• Rock Falls gets 'Cooler'
• Service denial led to changes in LOTS oversight
• Friends by more than accident
• Road work on U.S. 30 set to start
• Anti-bullying counselor speaks
• Panel backs fee increases
• Founder’s Day focuses on Shaw family
• Board against gun ban
• Election analysis: Manzullo couldn't extend reach
• Students plan Walk for Africa
• CGH offers free program for quitting smoking
• People and Pooches at the park
• 'Kitchen incubator' to open in May
• Enjoying the weather at Scheid Park
• Official: Cronyism a problem
• Judge to decide on second landfill issue
• Column: What is pink slime and should I care?
• Boys basketball coach loses his teaching job
• Board examines volunteer guidelines
• Back to Belgium for The Poet?
• Board fires boys basketball coach
• Former council member facing multiple charges
• Some didn’t get to vote on referendum
• Group to protest birth control mandate
• Man may be facing charges of leaving accident scene
• Trial date set in murder case
• Crash causes diesel fuel spill on I-39
• House says no to scholarships
• Clerks count the reasons why voters didn’t show
• Donaldson grant funds new Dixon High programs
• Arellano concedes 90th District primary to Demmer
• Arellano concedes 90th primary to Demmer
• Autopsy results 'inconclusive' in latest death
• Man charged with sexual assault
• 'Human error' blamed for ballot problem
• Sterling woman still critical
• Driver high, slams into mailboxes, deputies say
• New bishop named for Catholic Diocese of Rockford
• Proposed wind rules panned from both sides
• Adams wants to keep third appointed attorney
• Traffic worker hit by semitrailer, dies
• Two part-time teachers let go
• Rock Falls passes $22 million balanced budget
• Kinzinger defeats Manzullo
• Jacobs, Smiddy win Democratic nominations
• Lee County board incumbents turned down
• Bustos breaks away
• Most towns OK electrical issue
• Demmer wins 90th
• Liston wins Republican nomination
• Sacco-Miller earns GOP nod
• Election results
• Dixon district says no to Marshall gift
• Residents forming crime-fighting group
• Locals forming crime-fighting group
• Crowd fills riverfront to hear Santorum
• Dixon facing tight budgets
• Schools to vote this week on consultant
• Resident airs concerns about smart meters
• Four injured in crash Sunday near Tampico
• Sterling woman critical after motorcycle wreck
• Five teachers, two aides could be cut
• East Coloma, Nelson to vote this week on consultant
• Column: Why make the public sit around?
• Resident airs concerns about smart meters
• Four injured in crash Sunday near Tampico, driver charged
• Woman critical after motorcycle wreck
• Sterling group interpretation team heading to state
• Angler swims to safety after boat capsizes
• Man uninjured after boat capsizes in Rock River
• Win one like the Gipper?
• Santorum compares himself to Reagan during visit
• Sheriff: Rochelle man fell off cliff
• Man found in Pine Creek identified
• St. Patrick's Day celebration: Parade, party a rousing success
• Court Call
• ComEd installation on the horizon
• ELECTION 2012 Manzullo receives two more endorsements
• Parade, party a rousing success
• Voting on par with 2008
• Lee prosecutor race gets heated
• Installation on the horizon
• Farmer's share breakfast: Meal served with a side of ag awareness
• Progressive magazine editor to speak in area
• Part of River Street closed today for Santorum visit
• Another body found in Pine Creek
• Another body found in park
• Another body found in White Pines creek; foul play not suspected, sheriff says
• Viering: City must ‘embrace new ideas’
• Let the sunshine in
• Amboy Healthcare under new management
• Asking for records is easy; positive response sometimes elusive
• Extra hours having little impact on sales, so far
• An electric issue
• Open for Business: Rock Falls Billiards Club
• FSA election unlike other races
• Santorum campaign confirms details on Dixon visit
• Amboy man pleads guilty to impersonating cop
• Candidate event set for Monday at Erie library
• 'West Side Story' opens tonight
• Santorum firms up Dixon plans
• Santorum campaign confirms Dixon visit
• Wind farm a concern at airport
• Three arrested in Sterling-Dixon drug bust
• Official: Expect much input on wind issues
• Nominations now being 
taken for YWCA awards
• State, Kreider workers protest proposed state cuts
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Students kicking some butts
• Wind farm a concern at Whiteside airport
• Workers protest proposed state cuts
• Former Dixonite trying to win Jeep
• Morrison police buy squad car
• Sterling, Rock Falls, Newman participate in anti-smoking activities
• Sterling boy hit, hurt on bicycle
• Unemployment rates up slightly
• One more chance to speak on wind rules
• Flashback '80s Prom Night: Break out the neon lace, get the glitter
• Dixon a campaign stop?
• Whiteside surpasses fundraising goal
• Building inspector cutting back
• Local artists invited to showcase talent
• Lake LaDonna owner dies in snowmobile accident
• Official: Let judge decide on landfill
• Illinois law enforcement group endorses Bustos
• Celebrating 100 years over coffee
• Dixon a campaign stop for Santorum?
• Arickx spells out need for addition
• Hunts for kiddies and doggies on tap
• 2-day event expected to draw 7,000
• United Way of Whiteside surpasses fundraising goal
• Warming up for spring
• Sterling's building inspector to retire
• No more warnings for using phones near schools
• Fourth Fridays: Local artists invited to showcase talent
• Farmers ahead on work
• Official: Let judge decide on Lee landfill
• What's going on
• Superintendent spells out need for addition
• Electrical safety presentations set
• Snacking under the sun
• Police install prescription drug box
• Walk this way on the Riverfront
• Column: Dixonites have only Republican contested races
• Enjoying the warm weather
• Heat killed Mexican detasseler
• 3 girls drunk at school, arrested
• $500,000-plus addition in the works
• Local teachers, others win state honors
• Man found dead in cornfield identified as missing migrant
• Good global citizens
• Students plan variety of projects to take on poverty at home, abroad
• City band discussions discordant
• Column: Do we need 10 development agencies?
• Rock Falls balances its budget, will buy new fire truck
• Officials dispute landfill contract
• Man pleads not guilty to sex with 12-year-old
• Elementary students get taste of college life
• Bicyclist back in critical condition
• No uniform policy for job postings
• Demmer, Arellano win key endorsements
• Dixon band discussions discordant
• Officials dispute Lee landfill contract
• Students get taste of college life
• Historic district 
do-over requested
• Dixon decorator says vintage items in for Sauk Valley Home and Garden Show
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Court Call
• Vintage items in, Dixon decorator says
• City looks at lifting Sunday bar ban
• Morrison looks at letting bars open on Sunday
• Upgrades take nuclear plant unit offline
• No serious injuries in two fires
• Two fires break out; no serious injuries
• From a blank canvas to a work of art
• Outgoing state rep taps Dixon native
• Column: Rock River Trail Initiative building steam
• Mitchell endorses Dixon native
• RFHS Student of the Month
• Dixon man charged with sexually assaulting child
• Sterling woman plays beat the clock in search
• Mailer angers clerks
• Local chief judge 'hopeful' about court camera approval
• Mitchell set to reveal pick
• Sheley case also an issue in campaign
• Residents recall dealing with German prisoners
• Open for Business: 1st Avenue 
Barbershop
• Reagan hotel may have a buyer
• Celebrating Lutheran Schools Week
• Next Picture Show tries to fill gaps left by school budget cuts
• Police need help with break-ins
• No advice from panel on fee hikes
• 32-year-old charged with selling heroin
• Sterling man gets 10 years in stabbing case
• Making up for lost art
• Fraternity receives party ban
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Amboy students rehearse for 'Footloose'
• Irish Family Fleadh coming to Dixon
• Shopper scam making the rounds
• Kreider looks to grow
• Amboy man gets 7-year sentence
• Sports complex back on the table
• State’s attorney ‘distressed’ by hazing report
• Board to stop meeting twice a month
• Erie school district praised in resignation letter
• Amboy man gets 7-year sentence for sexual abuse
• Lyndon board to stop meeting twice a month
• A taste of 'West Side Story' at Culver's
• Coalition using survey to gauge families’ needs
• Oregon man gets 2 years for child pornography
• ‘Lipstick Killer’ dead at 83
• Looking back, and ahead: History and politics are Sidmore's passions
• New parking for Page, DHS
• Sheriff: Teen intoxicated
• Police release images of Walmart thieves
• Bicyclist upgraded to serious condition
• Judge shoots down lawsuit against jail
• School to investigate party
• Fire department wants to buy emergency ATV
• Police release surveillance shots of Walmart thieves
• 'Lipstick Killer' dead at 83
• First stage of First Avenue Bridge project completed
• First stage of reconstruction project completed
• Cash flow problems drain Dixon
• Statehouse in his sights
• Mom worries about busy Dixon intersection
• Column: The '800-pound gorilla in the room' emerges
• Rock 'n' roll band Santah to perform on WGN
• Cash flow issues costing Dixon
• Budget talk runs gamut
• Sterling sells four homes
• Santah to perform on WGN
• Crime Stoppers offering cash for tips on shootings, bomb threats
• N.Y. man dead after being found at White Pines
• No cause yet in student’s death
• Comedy for a cause: Andy and the iO rally for wounded Marine
• Court Call
• Demmer back on campaign trail
• Andy and the iO rally for wounded Marine
• Davenport man arrested on sex abuse charges
• Comedian serious about helping Marine
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Smiddy's sights always set on politics
• Back on the campaign trail
• Two contested districts, four fewer seats
• Primaries for board seats aren't competitive
• Dixon man accused of hitting, choking girlfriend
• OSHA investigating accident at steel mill
• Kinzinger, Bustos announce endorsements
• Manzullo visits Dixon, touts conservative credentials
• Opinions differ on ex-LOTS manager
• Devine 'ahead of the game' in recovery
• Time to pick your flicks in Sterling
• New flower shop opens in Franklin Grove
• Girl, 9, battling lymphoma back home, feeling better
• Kids have a hoot during Dixon festival
• SwedishAmerican oncology services in Dixon expanded
• Happy Seuss-Day!
• A wintry walk in the park
• Candle the culprit? Maybe not
• 9 turbines in plan for Whiteside
• Bank robber’s buddy gets 4 years for drug possession
• Dixon bicyclist still in critical condition
• Your Weekend Top 5
• New chess club seeks players
• City, county and now maybe the statehouse
• Chico covers wide range of school subjects
• No reason given for canceled wind meeting
• Residents ask the questions at Dixon event
• Trial set for former restaurant owner
• Learn about electrical aggregation today
• Sex offender takes too long to report cell, put on probation
• ‘Vagina Monologues’ returns
• Painting donated to library
• Dad collecting jokes to help son fight cancer
• Still no leads in November shootings
• What's going on
• ‘Cotton Patch Gospel’ looking for local talent
• Jacobs is his own man
• Two contested districts, four fewer seats
• Bustos still on the beat
• Arellano's next calling
• Adam, Andy to share laughs
• Main Street, Riverfront 'open a door'
• Bicyclist in critical condition after morning crash
• Board hires experienced Wendler engineer
• Baileyville wind farm’s timetable backed up
• Downtown building barricaded for safety
• Mallary's statement to school board
• Not on the lunch menu
• Student: ‘I was too ashamed’
• Dixon boy's death still unresolved
• Column: Bustos follows Rule No. 1 – avoid debates
• Making the 'bad guys pay the price'
• Courts can help where society does not
• Gaulrapp says work as mayor on budget, jobs will translate to Congress
• 'Looking to return to service'
• Insulator failure may be to blame for latest shutdown
• Compromise reached on property assessments
• Police look for TV thief
• Morrison reconsidering its leaf-burning rules
• Dreams of field shared by boosters
• A smaller district, a big debate
• Happy bee-day!
• Rock Falls eighth-grader wins county spelling bee on his 14th birthday
• Tuition to rise in 2013
• Columnist: Kinzinger took him ‘wildly out of context’
• Lee County panel’s wind effort criticized
• Sears store closing, owner won't say why
• Former Fulton man charged with drug trafficking
• City of Morrison 
facing budget dilemmas
• Kinzinger fights to win battle among 'friends'
• Aguilar touts 'real experience'
• After 10 terms on the job, a tough task
• Feeling the weight of court's consequences
• Retired teacher wants another go at Legislature
• Sauk tuition to rise in 2013
• Column: Kinzinger took him ‘wildly out of context’
• Dixon looking at another tight budget
• Council 
facing budget dilemmas
• Depot Avenue closed today in Dixon
• Pinewood Derby Races in Dixon
• God, family and music: Pastor uses talents and life lessons to make a difference
• Annual Second Look dress sale in Dixon
• Column: Sauk Valley Predators offer inexpensive fun
• 'Regular' customer wins $250,000 Little Lotto prize
• Voter fair 
draws more candidates than voters
• God, family and music
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Key endorsements for 16th candidates
• Dixon man charged with selling heroin
• New phone scam reported in Dixon
• Cameras OK'd for Sheley trial; new date set
• Lee County plaques honor WWII dead
• Know Your Neighbor
• New restaurant to open in Dixon
• Open for Business: Good Times Pizza and More
• Evidence of other crimes allowed at Sheley trial, judge rules
• For a time, KKK was strong in the Sauk Valley
• Reporter spread racist views in early 1900s
• Telegraph covered the KKK often
• Dixon's petunia plans
• Early voting begins Monday
• Cameras allowed at Sheley trial; start date delayed
• Doctor under investigation selling Sterling clinic
• Voter information fair this weekend in Dixon
• Distracted driver involved in fiery wreck in Sterling
• Erie athletic director plans to resign
• Cellphone store opens today in Rock Falls
• Trial date set in shaken baby case
• Author: It's us against the world
• 'Let's forget boundary lines'
• Manzullo: Sparing Rockford mail center ‘huge victory’
• This time, Polo student second to none
• Adams want to represent himself at trial
• Lee bee 'pronouncer' encouraging to students
• Whiteside County spelling bee Monday in Morrison
• Amboy celebrates National FFA Week
• Sword-wielder pleads guilty to robbery
• Ruling likely Friday on cameras at Sheley trial
• A shocking pink plan
• Ashes to Go at Sterling Walmart
• One of five accused gets probation
• Chicago man gets 3 years
• Panel’s wind decision likely today
• Burglar steals thousands in farm toys
• St. Pat’s party planned
• Actors needed for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
• Practice makes perfect
• Mardi Gras comes to Sterling
• State budget: Area officials worry about cost shift
• Sterling students to perform in free a cappella concert
• State Budget: No Sauk Valley facilities marked for closure
• Boosters want turf for football field
• Casey’s thief gets 12 years
• Man who took 13-year-old in 2009 gets 6 years
• Quinn: Sterling to get State Police center
• Supporting the Newman wrestling family
• Panelists announced for Thursday symposium
• No changes to wind farm ordinance
• Late-Afternoon Hoops at Page Park
• ‘Flexible’ agency helps get the job done
• Column: Who speaks for the Pages?
• Officials: Response times may be slower
• Bomb threat leads to school evacuation
• State official: County should run LOTS
• Sterling close to selling some homes
• Night shift for Galena work
• Sterling High School students rehearse for 'Aida'
• Learn to be a severe weather spotter
• Home & Garden Show coming up
• Suspect sought in Sterling hit-and-run
• Column: The difference? Lawyers got involved
• Offer made to turbine neighbors
• City police could have bigger role at parks
• Morrison eyes proposed fee hikes
• Court Call
• ‘Pope’ poem gets Sterling senior to the finals
• Column: There's plenty to do if you look around
• Schools to accept Marshall family’s gift
• Council eyes proposed fee hikes
• Lee County officials: Where are we headed?
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Texting, technology integrated in new courses
• Filings disappoint media groups
• Slain jailer's family: ‘No forgiveness, no mercy’
• Objections to cameras in Sheley case
• Black history lessons learned all year
• Martial arts academy opens in Morrison
• Sterling alderman draws from past, looks to future
• Open for Business: Fun Jump
• Manzullo in Lee, Bureau counties today
• Manzullo, Kinzinger have debate Tuesday
• Bustos gets Stevenson endorsement
• Debating the debates in 17th District
• Black history lessons learned all year
• 'Living with a Past': Dixon senior makes her (book)mark
• Franklin Grove man gets 8 years for sexually assaulting girl
• Erie hazing investigation kept secret by district
• Ogle to Lee: We're fine without an administrator
• Bond set for duct tape defendant
• Passion for Scouting honored
• Sauk speaker wants more black history events in community
• Man gets 8 years for sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl
• A challenge from Sauk speaker
• Sewer lining work next week in Sterling
• Marshall gift talks resume for Dixon school board
• Judge: Jail provides proper care for Adams
• Lee County Board may get off hot seat on LOTS
• This weekend's Top 5
• Skating through winter
• A chat with actress Rondi Reed
• Lee throws support in 36th to Jacobs
• Road workers may get raises
• Celebrating Black History Month at Sauk
• Free Southern gospel concert Friday
• 'Aida' updated
• Sterling senior, junior headed to state speech competition
• TNPS offers free demonstrations
• Basketball coach again subject of parents' complaints
• How to submit items for Showtime
• Sterling Mayor throws support to Jacobs
• Updated 'Aida' coming to Centennial Auditorium
• Man charged with duct-taping boy
• Jefferson Elementary School K-Kids Club
• Manzullo, Kinzinger each claim to be more thrifty
• Police may patrol Dixon parks
• Olson again subject of parents’ complaints
• Big cost overrun on Morrison sewer project
• Big cost overrun on Morrison project
• Taking a Second Look
• Boston terrier wins award at Westminster
• Wise: ‘You’re free to count Snickers bars’
• 'Cupid' honors Valentine's Day promise
• Andy Dick coming to Dixon
• Dateline Dixon: Homework in the spirit of education
• Morrison City Council: No to board for sports complex
• Dixon receives grant notification
• Revitalizing Oregon's downtown
• Leaf River man still deemed unfit for trial
• Column: Homework in the spirit of education
• Are councils giving enough information?
• Wood burner sparked rural fire, fire chief says
• Four years later, NIU remembers tragic anniversary
• Police looking for stabbing suspect
• Bivins among new endorsements for Manzullo
• No injuries in Milledgeville fire
• Because the boss told me
• Chamber president steps down
• Sterling considering storm water utility fee
• Manzullo calls for ending Super PACs
• Community room fee off the table
• Sterling man caught with pot, police say
• Burglary suspects face more charges
• Fire damages downtown Sterling apartments
• Sheley wants trial date changed
• Jacobs tells educators he'll support them
• Reagan Boyhood Home director retiring
• Jump Rope for Heart
• Police installing a medical drop box
• Chess team leaves state tournament 3-4
• Column: Sterling throws its support to the Rock River Trail Initiative
• Bowling for dollars
• Police looking for stabbing suspect
• Morrison Junior High wins annual competition
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Fees not music to their ears
• LOTS dispatchers making a temporary move
• Amboy teen charged with arson at laundromat
• Candidates talk politics over pizza
• Candidates lining up their support
• Driven toward a new vision for downtown Rock Falls
• Casey’s General Store in Sterling delivers
• Good for kids, bad for school budgets?
• Know Your Neighbor: Amy Brose
• Made in the Sauk Valley: Astec Mobile Screens
• Sterling goes 2-2 at chess tourney
• Arduini hopes new site drives traffic downtown
• Aguilar receives endorsements from former Bustos peers
• Laundromat in Amboy destroyed by fire
• AG: City broke meetings law
• Help for struggling pet owners
• Sauk hosting commemorative events
• Former congressman gives backing to Bustos
• Arts in the afternoon
• Alderwoman still not satisfied with access to city documents
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Absentee voting cast into spotlight
• Two teens charged with car break-ins
• 'Lost in time' in the library
• Rock Falls District OKs project bonds
• Sacco-Miller plans campaign events
• Board makes land offer
• Meeting the Sauk Valley Predators
• Boland meeting voters in Sterling
• Sterling PD warns of jail bond scam
• ‘Sense of the Eye’ opens
• Woodlawn seeks entries for student-teacher art show
• 'Crème de la crème of talent' on display
• Back by popular demand
• Smithsonian exhibit coming to Savanna
• Report says Whiteside County Jail improves
• Dixon School Board to vote on park land
• Gearing up for Valentine's Day
• Education in the limelight
• Rock Falls alderman: City economy improving
• Plea hearing moved to next month
• Heart condition apparent cause of Morrison man's death
• Dixon Main Street, Riverfront groups plan brainstorming session
• Chess team looks to improve at state tourney
• Full steam ahead at Byron Nuclear Generating Station
• Thieves strip farm irrigation systems
• Woodlawn Arts Academy recognized
• City supports Rock River Trail Initiative
• Green River Adventure Sports shutting its doors
• Saving pictures of the past for the future
• Towing of certain cars OK’d
• Woodlawn Arts Academy Dancers to perform at Disney World
• Proposed transit salaries in question
• Illinois Tea Party endorses Manzullo
• Ex-party chair gets top honor
• Official: District careful with finances
• Building repair projects, staffing plan on school board agenda
• Main Street honors its stars
• Trivia angels smile on Harrisons again
• ‘Reagan of Illinois’ CDs, DVDs on sale
• Youth group plans thrift store
• Court Call
• The roadmap to victory in the Stupor Bowl
• Local native will be more than a 'Material' witness at Super Bowl
• Drug court grad 'living life on life's terms'
• Tattoo shop opens in new location
• Open for Business: McKendrie 
Street Cafe
• Whiteside official's assistant blew whistle
• Mural group ready to make history again
• Know Your Neighbor: Kirby Miller
• 3 congressmen take the stage in Dixon
• Tests show no radiation increase at Byron nuclear plant
• Symposium date changed to Feb. 23
• District finds no evidence of hazing
• Sterling woman crashes car into Riverside Cemetery
• St. Andrew tackles reading
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Shaw named to Midland board
• Group aims to guide seniors to services
• Ready Care ready for patients again
• Group says rules could harm their Ogle farms
• Library may feel heat of higher costs
• 9-year-old from Rock Falls battles Burkitt's lymphoma
• Buser pleads not guilty to burglary
• Rachel's Challenge brings audience to tears
• Manning football up for auction
• Tampico time capsule
• Sobering education: Six drug court graduates its biggest class
• Three plead not guilty in apartment incident
• Deputies: Four teens injured in rollover; charges pending
• Kinzinger touts cash advantage
• A year later, a much warmer winter
• A Midwest soundtrack: Rising musician 
to play at Champs
• Comedian Erik Rivera set to perform at Sauk
• Local legislators wonder about price tag of Quinn’s proposals
• Three arrested in Wednesday's liquor store burglary
• Catholic schools week talent show
• Path cleared for community center
• Wanted: Neighbors who like cameras
• Dixon armed robber gets 9 years for burglary
• Gaulrapp proposes debates in the 17th
• School earns Academic Excellence distinction for third straight year
• Chipping away at bridge project
• Midwest expert to speak at symposium
• Auto dealership CEO wins Dixon Citizen of Year award
• NRC begins probe of Monday’s shutdown
• Preservation commission gets earful
• Tax appeals board behind schedule
• Bones dug up likely at least 1,000 years old
• Local circuit to be first with cameras in courtrooms
• Controversial historic district will be revisited
• Cheerleaders heading to state
• East Coloma, Nelson boards want more data
• Catholic schools week
• Woman pretends to be a cop to get out of paying to tank up
• Lyndon village board goes public with vote
• There’s a tendency to downplay hazing
• Foul play ‘not suspected’ in Rock Falls death
• Amboy teachers suspended
• Power loss shuts down one nuclear plant unit; public in no danger
• Schools must serve breakfast next year
• Pinewood derby races in Sterling
• Kinzinger takes message to smaller towns
• New ESL classes offered in Dixon
• Making progress with a VITAL student
• Court Call
• Election calendar for 2012 primary
• Clinic: Dr. Ng patients have new providers
• 3 charged with selling heroin
• State grant paves way for path
• Business changes hands, not families
• Official doesn't mince his words
• New construction starting to climb in the Sauk Valley
• Open for Business: Wiemken Tax Service
• Chavarria remembered by his friends as the 'guy next door'
• Hair Today,...
• Police piecing together details
• Sheley trial: 'We're not quite there yet'
• 4 arrested on meth charges in Thomson
• Walnut man charged with using stolen card
• 100 AND GOING STRONG Local woman on eve of 100th birthday still volunteering
• Dixon motorist ticketed after striking two pedestrians
• Sterling man gets 20 years
• Adams’ motion for new attorney denied
• Walmart DC Business of the Year
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Here comes the Sauk Bridal Fair
• Father in shaken baby case to go to trial on another charge
• Finders ultimately the keepers
• Official says firing 'an oversight on my part'
• Area jobless rates increase in December
• Update: No cause yet in 'suspicious' Rock Falls death
• Board passes bilingual program improvements
• Bird of prey
• Midwest Derby Divas practice in Morrison
• Lyndon board seeks state inquiry in payroll
• Man gets 2 years for theft
• Worker fired in closed meeting
• County may give more money to Prophetstown
• Dixon native plans local launch of her first novel
• 1937 'director' discovered in Dixon
• No citations in Tampico electrocutions
• Rock Falls man attacked, robbed outside liquor store
• Sterling man indicted in federal court
• Dateline Dixon: Feedback of the positive nature
• Eye in the courtroom
• City deals with meetings issue
• Home invasion reported in Amboy
• Stupor Bowl deadline nears
• Manny’s coming to Sterling?
• Morthland talks about his worst votes
• Area man charged with sexual abuse
• Several fees may rise in Morrison to balance budget
• ‘Always negative’? Let the readers decide
• Half of Elkay’s 46 workers are cut
• Rock Falls man charged with home invasion
• Inmate charged with busting TV, trying to make it spark
• Police look for men who approached 11-year-olds
• Budget plans draw criticism
• Debating the issues: 90th District candidates touch on budget, pensions, term limits
• Jacobs meets with area voters
• Bilingual program changes on agenda
• Attorney questions internal inquiry in Erie hazing allegations
• Three locals charged with home invasion
• Court backs $1,420 fee for property info
• About an inch of snow likely today
• Beginning a new journey together
• Officials look at district’s progress
• Court Call
• Bassoonist gives 75 years to the band
• Farmland values surge
• Grandpa's little helper
• Wondering about her parents
• Mo. officials OK signage plan
• Another merger on the horizon
• Better choices, made locally
• Rock Falls High School December Student of the Month
• Made in the Sauk Valley: Donaldson Company Inc.
• Audit led to clerk’s dismissal
• Technical change to setback
• Search leads to drug arrest
• Clearing a path
• Six injured in Sterling crash
• Last suspect in home invasion arrested, jailed
• State's top court reinstates Sandholm's 2008 defamation suit
• Schools close early due to snow
• Wife gets probation for role in Cash for Gold robbery
• Case against roommate dropped
• Dixon school district checking in midyear
• Angelo's opens new site in Dixon
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Charges reinstated against 18-year-old
• Abatement project to cost about $340,000
• 'Coaches have no business in the shower'
• Sheriff investigating hazing allegations
• Showers required after tournaments, practices
• Big crowd shows up for school board
• Dixon concert to air on TV
• Democrats plan to win back 17th
• Local GOP join vote against debt limit increase
• Marshall gift does not require new school
• Local congressmen blast pipeline decision
• School retreat will be open
• Sterling woman pleads not guilty in home invasion
• Man faces second stolen truck charge
• Snow yet another obstacle for the disabled
• Opinion expected Friday in coach’s case
• Wrestler: Coaches involved in hazing
• Brechon will remain Tourism Board president
• Dateline Dixon: Comparing then and now
• Fixing a broken water main
• Fun in the snow at Kilgore Park
• Board to discuss discipline
• Higher kennel costs upset board
• Board looks into second landfill
• Walnut parents face heroin charges in DuPage Co.
• District cuts 16-year employee’s position
• Man charged in fatal crash near Thomson
• County to buy acreage at former sewer plant
• Official: Wind company not drafting rules
• East Coloma, Nelson may merge
• Review board openings filled
• Board of review members explain their resignations
• Park district considers Woodcote rate hike
• Union slams Quinn’s private meetings
• Building snowmen in Rock Falls
• Tough sledding in Dixon
• Sterling passes final changes to liquor code
• Panel to discuss wind farm setback – at last
• Longtime toy store owner, attorney dies
• Timing of public feedback at meetings questioned
• Morrison looks at policy for use of library’s community room
• Candidates to speak in Sterling
• Area boasts high-tech hospitals
• Rewards for excellence at Reagan Middle School
• Hospice organization opts for name change
• Local GOP 
to fight debt 
limit increase
• Dixon to look at vehicle ordinance
• Celebrating the man, the dream: Locals honored at MLK event
• Court Call
• Landfill talks may hit legal snag
• Girl, 7: 'When I got up, I smelled smoke'
• Dixon focuses on restorative justice aspect of program
• Late state payments hurt Self Help
• Dixon Marine receives purple heart
• Last call for changes to Sterling's liquor code
• RMS students who are a cut above
• Reagan Hotel & Suites remains for sale, auction postponed
• Open for Business: Zuppa’s Deli
• Author: Give children less homework
• Wahl Clipper opens subsidiary in India
• Scam: Beware of call from 'attorney' seeking money for relative
• Adams files fourth suit against jail
• Warbirds: Organizers hope attendance soars
• Partial demolition of bridge starts Tuesday
• Rock Falls Elementary District moves funds
• More details emerge in home invasion case
• Sterling soldier leads last U.S. convoy out of Iraq
• Bomb threat suspect pleads not guilty
• Tickets on sale now for bridal fair
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Snow falls in the Sauk Valley
• Winter finally arrives
• Holly Sheley arraigned in stolen credit card case
• Dixon Cash for Gold thief gets 19 years
• Motions to be heard in Adams murder case
• Prosecutors want confession back in
• Spring cleaning may require ID
• Shelter facilities packed; people dumping pets
• Talking about overcoming addiction
• Taxpayers appeal property valuations
• Sign-up on for bowling tourney
• Ashton police chief to go part time
• Partisan politics block prison sale
• Burglary suspects face additional charges
• The race for dollars in the 90th
• Missing man found dead in Ogle County
• Clinton Symphony: Annual chamber concert set for Jan. 22
• Wine-tasting event a benefit for PADS Homeless Shelter
• Ex-coach charged with burglary
• DIXON New parking rules will come into play today
• DIXON New parking rules will come into play today
• Brothers’ Arizona bombing trial begins
• A quiet end for Dixon's fly-in
• Man charged with dealing cocaine
• Does county need an image overhaul?
• Resignations will delay tax appeals
• Main Street seeking to consolidate
• Exhibitors prepare for 30th farm show at Northern Illinois University
• Manzullo denounces earmarker label
• Administrative captain retires after 40 years
• Falling temps to bring snow, wind
• Comets aiming to get to state meet
• Rock Falls declares snow emergency
• Sterling Coliseum renovations to begin mid-April
• Local businesses cited for selling liquor to minors
• Man gets 17 years for dealing crack
• Man charged with more break-ins
• Election 2012: A look at the big finances
• Warbirds: Next fly-in reunion planned
• Column: Burglary vs. break-in; Durbin vs. Bustos rivals
• Morrison approves revised bike path plan
• Semitrailer gets stuck
• Not everybody gets the big checks
• Working in warm weather
• Panel won't push anti-nepotism policy – for now
• Man charged with stun gun possession
• Unions could be big hurdle
• Fourth suspect arrested in Sterling home invasion
• Plan a perfect wedding at annual exhibit
• Nursing homes get new owners
• Who's writing wind rules?
• Fishing in Fulton
• Court Call
• Couple works to get statue restored
• Board: Dixon needs sports complex
• Sorry, seagulls, eagles are the draw
• No winter blues yet for budgets
• Member: No illegal talk on pay raises
• Ogle County influencing Lee County
• Annual Girl Scouts fundraiser is on
• Injured Dixon Marine moved to U.S. hospital
• Appellate court grants Sheley new trial in '09 jail fight
• Dixon woman charged with prostitution
• Police raid Dixon home Friday
• Unemployed in the Sauk Valley: State troubles leave teacher's aide out of work
• Dixon sex offender charged with violating registry requirement
• Unemployed in the Sauk Valley: 22-year-old looks for next step
• Adams wants original attorney back on the case
• Unemployed in the Sauk Valley: Vet finds factory work hard to come by
• Unemployed in the Sauk Valley: Dixon woman turns to PADS for shelter
• Vanessa Sharp, 17, of Sterling, is Newman
• Matt Oswalt, 17, of Dixon, is Newman Centr
• Alejandro Rivera, 17, of Sterling, is one
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Former NBA player to talk about beating drugs
• Revote needed on local historic district
• Man arrested in bomb threat Wednesday a suspect in another
• Enjoy it while it lasts
• Wind farm noise rules endorsed
• Walnut man accused of sexually assaulting child
• Dixon school board to discuss Marshall property
• Board to discuss Marshall property
• Warming up for winter
• Report: Suspect hits tree in police chief's yard
• Durbin backs Bustos for Congress
• Public seems to have no issues with TNPS exhibit
• Shopko, Pamida retail chains to merge
• Heating program not affected
• Kinzinger contrasts himself with rival
• Hopefuls spar for conservative title
• New musical event joining lineup
• Dixon native pens new historical novel
• Clifton Gunderson merges with LarsonAllen LLP
• Dixon looks at decriminalization list
• Thirty fire departments responded to Peru
• First Avenue Bridge work begins
• Village President: Mount Morris can't afford Quad/Graphics plant
• Unger: Village can’t afford Quad/Graphics plant
• Complaint filed against local attorney
• New senior center finally opens its doors
• Disciplinary group files complaint against local attorney
• New Year's Baby: Girl gets an 'unusual and pretty' name
• Two-car crash in Sterling
• Girl Scouts get an update
• Landowner vows to lie in bulldozers’ path
• Panel may eye setbacks this week
• STERLING Police arrest woman in Kohl's theft
• Police arrest woman in Kohl's theft
• Revised liquor regulations not on council’s agenda
• Kinzinger to have event in Dixon
• Controversial laws often are accepted
• No baby yet at CGH
• Police arrest woman in Kohl's theft
• Polar Bear Plunge
• Bound for Kuwait: Doctor heads overseas
• Court Call
• Dixon doctor heads overseas to treat soldiers
• Fire destroys landmark former clock factory in Peru
• Dixon's newest resident arrives at 1 a.m.
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Hunting accident hospitalizes Addison man
• The new dos and don'ts of 2012
• Delays expected – for 11 months – from bridge work
• Charge won't affect pension for engineer
• Top local news stories of 2011
• Know Your Neighbor
• Katelin Durham, 18, of Sterling, is one of
• Kayla Jakubczak, 17, of Rock Falls, is Roc
• Open for Business: Great Clips
• Amboy High Student of the Month
• What does it take to revoke a driver's license?
• 3 Amboy teens arrested for property damage
• Police: Rochelle man made false abduction report
• Fund set up to help Devine's family travel to see him
• Sears, Kmart cuts haven't touched Sauk Valley yet
• Districts honored for performance
• A lot of noise about noise
• Candidate: Durbin asked me to withdraw
• Marine from Dixon injured in Afghanistan
• Overheard conversation results in arrest
• Working behind the curtain
• Possible Durbin endorsement causes stir
• Woman sought in Kohl's burglary
• Crash victim a youth pastor in Tenn.
• Two accidents send three to hospital with minor injuries
• Two accidents result in injuries
• With Dixon TIF set, focus shifts to streetscape
• Tales of the tape
• Traffic accident on Lincolnway
• ‘The worst smell in my entire life’
• Two for tea at Dixon event
• Oregon woman accused of sexting student won't be charged
• Construction to begin Tuesday on First Avenue span
• Voters to decide electric supplier issue
• New year takes its toll on drivers
• Local Sears will remain open
• New rule in effect for pet owners
• Purse-snatching suspect hospitalized after crash
• McDonald’s may be coming to Byron
• Announced candidate doesn't file
• Car crashes into house
• Rock Falls man killed in accident
• Walking the dog in Sterling
• Sauk talk wrongly a private matter?
• Friending the Sauk Valley
• Here for the Holidays
• Column: Overly secretive in Whiteside County
• Inmate on the lam back in jail
• Fewer students, older residents
• School enrollment drops nearly 10 percent in Sauk Valley
• Sterling police still looking for suspects
• Proposed complex now has a site
• Man accused of taking purse outside mall
• Man accused of taking purse outside Sterling mall
• Community Watch
• How far should turbines be?
• 'Protester' tabbed as Time's Person of the Year
• No one claiming body of murderer
• Area liquor store workers arrested
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Raid raises concerns of heroin surge
• Know Your Neighbor: Marge Jackley-Koehler
• Know Your Neighbor: Kami Lappin
• Student of the Month: Senior Maddie Degelau
• October Student of the Month: Aaron Brenner
• All decked out
• Man charged with having drugs near Sterling school
• Police looking for more suspects in home invasion
• Money divide in new 17th
• Santas help pay off layaways
• Elston feels at home in city’s First Ward
• Open for Business: Bangkok Gardens
• Flynnie's moves to permanent location
• No welcoming committee for wind farms
• Finishing Touches
• Jobless rates drop in November
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Last-minute rush at Northland Mall
• Candidates can begin filing in 
redrawn congressional districts
• Locally made products sold at local retailers
• Two arrested after home invasion
• Judge: Sheley trial to stay in Whiteside County
• Choosing a Christmas tree
• Fire destroys home in Prophetstown
• Dixon Park District manages expectations
• Everybody 'Clap Your Hands'
• Wind farm rules near completion
• Driver in pedestrian fatality case jailed
• Man gets 20 years 
for sexual assault
• Sheriff looking for inmate who failed to return to county jail
• School board extends superintendent's contract
• 18-year-old jumped, beaten
• Police: Break-in an ‘isolated incident’
• Board member received information about allegation first
• Bret Michaels to rock out in Sandwich
• Police looking for inmate who failed to return to jail
• Sterling man injured during home invasion
• Accident shuts down traffic
• Tampico gets thousands of votes
• Lower power rates possible
• Board nixes nepotism policy
• Lee County Board nixes nepotism policy
• Council changes meeting day, time
• The Sterling High School Madrigal Choir pe
• Sterling High School Madrigal Choir
• 70-year-old bicyclist hit by pickup truck dies
• School Board OKs tax levy increase
• Closing of mail centers on hold for now
• Crash in Oregon
• Officials seize 185 marijuana plants
• Workers did jobs at official’s house
• Rock Falls approves tax levy
• Tampico project ahead of schedule
• Rock Falls approves 2012 tax levy
• Applicant a casualty of Haring demise
• Bar or restaurant?
• Serving at a bar or restaurant?
• Holiday lights in Rock Falls
• Bureau County has new chief deputy
• Dixon High School Madrigals make the rounds
• City expected to approve lower tax levy tonight
• Fire claims riverfront home in Nelson
• Council OKs budget
• Should city employees live in the city?
• Dixon City Council OKs budget
• Liquor code change allows more time for sales
• Driver in fatal crash indicted
• Liquor sales time extended
• Countdown to Christmas
• McDonald's remodeling under way
• Sauk plans fire science program
• Vote allows elementary district to annex Riverdale
• Man accused of attack with sword
• Guns, cash stolen in home burglary
• Man pleads guilty to robbing bank
• Former Erie man pleads guilty to robbing bank
• Board considers drug-testing students
• Highway official pleads guilty to theft
• Highway official pleads guilty
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Court Call
• Election calendar for 2012 primary
• Council to vote on budget without firefighter contract
• Governor signs TIF
• Counterfeit bills reported in Clinton
• Last-minute requests
• Dixon City Council to vote on budget without firefighter contract
• DIXON Manzullo to speak at tea party event
• Governor OKs TIF extension
• Counterfeit bills now in Clinton
• Column: Many points of progress in Sterling
• Transformer assembly company building a loading dock
• Company builds a new loading dock
• Whiteside County launches online notification service
• Santa makes a visit
• Student of the Month: Eric Ardis
• Student of the Month: Rosa De La Torre
• Know Your Neighbor: Barbara Schwamberger
• Schools seek energy savings
• Caller threatens to blow up RMS
• Spike in low-income students
• 'Reagan' composer honored
• A ‘long time’ coming
• Floodway on the way?
• Changes on tap for city code on liquor
• Regional school board in rare spotlight
• Pampered Pawz
• Zuppa's Deli expands delivery, menu, hours
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Sheley wants first Whiteside trial moved
• Sterling Christian School Christmas Concert
• Plan to save money on 911 service hits snag
• Official lashes out at wind firms
• Wife of Dixon armed robbery suspect arrested
• Wife of Dixon armed robbery suspect arrested Thursday
• Madrigal Choir performs
• Jailed man facing cocaine charges
• Rock Falls man charged with dealing in Sterling
• Local dealership helps gift effort
• Township requires new mailboxes be break-away
• Sheley attorney wants trial moved out of Whiteside
• Books donated in Morrison
• Escaping the rain in Dixon
• Technology a catch-22 for teachers
• Judge removed from Adams case
• Bollman, Liston first on ballot
• Teen pleads not guilty in gun case
• ComEd project a bit behind schedule
• Pair of C-130s spotted in region
• City shows two more homes
• Knox County judge reaffirms Sheley's life sentence
• Felon pleads not guilty of attempted murder
• Morrison chooses engineer for sewer project
• Dealership passes on city money this year
• Request for subpoenas rejected
• Final Challand renovation funds OK'd
• Reservations due for Evening at the Pops
• Local women throwing party featuring dancing and games
• Handel’s Messiah comes to Dixon
• Legis Studios tuned in to local scene
• Judge removed from Adams case
• Police: Altered $50 bills circulating in Sterling, Rock Falls
• Donor makes kettle sing
• Some residents could see lower electric rates
• Sterling man charged with injuring boy
• Longtime East Coloma educator, Whiteside board member dies
• Commission OKs keeping maintenance head
• Whooping cough makes presence felt in northern Illinois
• Dixon man charged with pulling knife at Sauk
• Longtime felon behind bars again
• Schools sharpen focus: Look to fine-tune curriculum for AYP
• Curriculum focus of improvement plans
• Vendors invited to sign up now for 2012 Bridal Fair
• Man pleads guilty to bank robbery
• Schilling seeks input on unemployment benefits
• Ohio man pleads guilty in federal court
• Schilling seeks input on benefits
• Lanark man found dead in his car
• Women sought for credit card fraud
• Staying fit in winter
• Finishing touches
• State plans to change bike path
• ADHD becomes a gift
• Chalk artist shares art, Christmas message with Dixon church
• Video, tip lead to arrest
• Community reflects on loss of agency CEO
• Committee delays action on holiday policy
• Board may extend superintendent’s contract
• Game night violators risk tickets
• $1.5 million in new windows, other work coming
• Column: Sure, we can be a day-trip destination
• Sheley charged with using stolen credit card
• Sterling selling two more homes
• Rollover shuts down Route 2
• No arrests, no new leads in Sterling shootings
• Inmate charged in Dixon armed robbery
• Shop with cop in Dixon
• New judge to hear Walnut wind farm suit
• Looking at legal bills? Don't take notes
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Court Call
• Cause of fire still under investigation
• Sterling felon accused of hitting 2 men
• Who needs newspapers?
• Local felon accused of battery
• Giving back is a great gift, indeed
• VA clinic ribbon-cutting and open house Friday
• VA Clinic ribbon-cutting, open house set for Dec. 16
• Train depot turns 100; celebration Tuesday
• Jo-Ann Fabrics to open Sterling store
• Jo-Ann Fabrics to hire 30
• Disparities exist in superintendent salaries
• Superintendent salaries vary widely
• Know Your Neighbor: Melissa "Mel" Schoenly
• Sterling Student of the Month
• What’s the difference between manager, administrator?
• Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts coming to Sterling
• Old school commission still prevails in Dixon
• Rock River Trail Initiative: Promoting 300 miles of river, trail locally and beyond
• Historic plan backed by state panel
• Snow removal rules effective immediately
• Assistant assumes official's duties
• Open for Business: TJ's Maintenance and Repair Inc.
• 2 charged after months of thefts from vehicles
• Fire destroys garage, then spreads to house
• Marley has met life’s many challenges
• World War II vet tells his story for Library of Congress
• Sauk Valley Community College’s Fine Arts Performance Hour
• Your Weekend Top 5
• U.S. Rep. Walsh to switch districts in 2012 bid
• Sterling launches new website
• Arts school moving to new location
• New charges against two Sterling men
• Vehicle records kept secret
• Dixon PADS sees more families
• When to meet? Morning vs. night
• Teens protest Senate bill in Dixon
• Twice-convicted man pleads guilty
• Local legislators hope long sentence serves as deterrent
• Three lawsuits now in play
• Chairman: ‘We don’t want this dragged on’
• Two plead not guilty in robbery with sword
• Applications being taken for next Honor Flight
• Ogle County Board will see new faces
• Sterling man pleads not guilty in gunshot case
• No arrest yet; police looking for tips
• Body found in river near Fulton
• For the love of music
• Phidian club seeks submissions for its 
literary competition
• ‘She is destined for heaven’
• New K-9 cop shows off for council
• Candidate running for two offices
• Jogging in Dixon
• Oregon makes second run at utility referendum
• Police release enforcement stats
• Transmission line gets route alternatives
• Amboy woman faces additional charges
• Engineer suspended with pay
• Congressional candidate being sued for copyright infringement
• Women collecting holiday donations
• Who will succeed Seeberg?
• Manzullo trying to deliver Rockford postal center from closure
• Reagan Middle School lockdown lifted
• Armed robbery prompts Reagan Middle School lockdown
• Settlement reached in grain bin accident
• Walsh delays announcement
• Election Filing Roundup
• School receives Reagan statue
• Prison guard indicted on two felonies
• 'One more special salute'
• One less candidate running in the 90th
• 25 seek re-election
• ‘Reagan’s Roots’ author returns to subject’s home
• Rock Falls motorcyclist ticketed for October crash
• Library getting automated system
• Few leads in string of Sterling shootings
• Even-odd parking rules pass council
• Sterling to assess former factory buildings
• Column: Why not release the names in car crash?
• Council to meet K-9 officer Nero
• Coroner waiting on autopsy results
• Candidates who have filed
• Seeberg retiring
• Barber shot by deputy dies
• Dixon City Council to vote on parking
• Police: Armed homeowner detains trespasser
• Court Call
• POWs, MIAs honored at tree lighting ceremony
• Barber shot by deputy in September dies
• 12 institutions garner a third of all claims since 2007
• Council to vote on even-odd parking
• Police: Armed homeowner detains drunken trespasser
• Arellano mixer Wednesday in Dixon
• Koehler opts out of Democratic bid in 17th District
• Manzullo talks redistricting, jobs and Thomson prison
• Hundreds of families have breakfast with Santa
• Memories of Black Hawk Down
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Hoping to remain in the red
• Dreaming of a White (House) Christmas
• Dixon Main Street’s Great Snowball Drop
• Seasonal celebration in Sterling
• Why write when you can type?
• Fiber optics being laid along Lynn Boulevard
• Clean Line has two local public events
• Manzullo stops in Dixon today
• Martin keeps track of complaints for times of need
• Galena man injured in 2-car crash
• Bureau Valley student far from alone in cancer fight
• Outnumbered, outspoken on board
• Rock Falls proposes changes to garbage collection
• Multi-agency search comes up empty
• Open For Business: Green Beans
• Barbershop open in familiar spot
• Your Weekend Top 5
• What if turbines are left behind?
• Getting the tree ready in Dixon
• Hopes up for a better drop
• National historic district promoted
• Oh, Christmas trees
• Sights and Sounds in Sterling
• A path to development for Morrison?
• Did council give sufficient notice to residents?
• Police looking for two suspects in home invasion
• Inspirational chalk artist to give Christmas presentation
• Gallery installs nude exhibit upstairs
• Places to call home in Honduras
• Locals to build homes in Honduras
• Annual VietNow event Saturday
• Sex offender now facing drug charges
• Man gets 7 years in robbery at motel
• Author will be in Fulton for discussion, signings for new Reagan book
• Author will be in Fulton for new Reagan book
• Lee County's top prosecutor seeking re-election
• More Whiteside incumbents running
• Sterling teen gets 4 years probation
• Morrison School Board OKs request to lower tuition
• Decision delayed on out-of-district tuition
• Fight sends Morrison man to prison
• Family gathers to remember son killed by SUV
• HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS Kicking off Christmas around the Sauk Valley
• What's going on
• Dec. 2 Architecture and More DIXON – Arc
• Santa and the snowball return this weekend
• CHRISTMAS KICKOFF Seasonal Sights and Sounds returns to Sterling
• Lee County's top prosecutor making re-election bid
• Family: Accident case heading to grand jury
• Funding bills pass General Assembly
• Senate OKs TIF extension
• Ferrone says he won’t run again
• Whiteside County: Most incumbents to run again
• Dixon native gets involved with AIDS advocacy
• MORRISON Worker: Beware 'million-dollar corporation'
• Oregon senior center finally moving
• Historic Sterling Victorian open for holiday tour
• Official: Let voters 
elect the Lee County chairman
• Ogle hospice replacing KSB’s end-of-life service
• Readying holiday lights in Dixon
• Decorating downtown Sterling
• Lynn Boulevard closing for work
• No new names as candidates begin filing
• Two Republicans file for state’s attorney
• Got a barn? Let us know at SVM
• Woman arrested after burglary
• Prank now a felony?
• Amboy man charged with impersonating an officer
• Mabley possibly spared for now
• Charges pending in SUV fatality
• Prosecutor in the running for state’s attorney office
• Recycling program numbers up
• Clinton, Iowa, man dies in two-vehicle crash
• Path approved, despite lawsuit threats
• No one injured in structure fire
• Lee County committee quietly disappears
• Sauk board approves tax levy
• Family OK after house fire
• Court Call
• Police still looking for suspect
• SUV kills Rock Falls pedestrian, slams into house
• Fire destroys Fulton body shop
• 'We've been very busy'
• Time capsule buried on the Riverfront
• District eyes more course offerings
• City may double legal spending
• No more index cards
• Candidates will start filing papers today
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• SUV kills pedestrian, crashes into house
• Landowner: 'My rights not for sale'
• Almost 80 businesses participate in Small Business Saturday
• Quest for a smarter game
• Morrison school district eyes more course offerings
• No more drawers full of index cards
• Rock Falls pedestrian killed in SUV crash, rollover
• Safe cracked during store break-in; burglars at large
• Open For Business: The Cage
• Local deli owner a finalist in national cooking contest
• Not your father’s lunchroom
• ‘New’ Kenya moves forward amid terror attacks
• One jailed in Thanksgiving home invasion in Dixon
• ‘You’re important; you’re loved’
• A model hobby
• Police release composite of shooting suspect
• Holiday shooting spree ‘definitely different’
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Police looking for suspect in Sterling shootings
• Police: Burglary suspects may be linked to other area break-ins
• Two Ogle teens arraigned in local drive-by shooting
• Spending his time 'doing'
• One cited for selling tobacco to minor
• Holiday boutique opens
• Judge to allow testing of DNA evidence
• A long ride to the City Council
• Rock Falls man charged with sexually exploiting teen
• Three face misdemeanor drug charges
• Second annual holiday album soon to be released
• Republican to run for state’s attorney
• What's going on
• Holiday events in the Sauk Valley
• Rock Falls pedestrian struck, killed
• NEW: No one injured in Sterling shooting
• Two wanted in Sterling home burglary arrested Wednesday
• Sheley judge allows testing of DNA evidence
• Two Ogle teens arraigned in drive-by shooting
• Kallemeyn to make state's attorney bid
• All seasons' greetings
• Bollman makes bid for Lee County state's attorney
• Police looking for two suspected burglars
• Face of Happy Tails has a place of his own
• Morrison school lunch privatization foe: I was turned down
• SAUK VALLEY SHOP SMALL More than 70 small buusinesses gear up for Saturday
• Nothing movin' in yet to 'Movin' On Up'
• No docs, but walk-in clinic to be open more hours
• Column: All seasons' greetings for new Dixon residents
• Cable for Whiteside public housing residents?
• Police: Suspected burglars sought, rack up charges on stolen credit card
• Sauk Valley Shop Small: 'Small' effort becomes big
• No docs, but walk-in to be open more hours
• Thanksgiving baskets for the needy
• Downtown Morrison revitalization
• Sheriff plans no immediate layoffs
• Recorder seeks re-election
• Teen gunman remains hospitalized, facing felony
• Column: Too many members on the County Board?
• Princeton High School update: Teen gunman remains hospitalized, facing felony
• Shot fired; local man charged
• KSB, Ogle County Hospice to team up
• Deputies looking for armed robbery suspect
• Bollman
 to announce candidacy
• Casey's General Store robbed, deputies looking for suspect
• Eighth Community Art statue arrives at foundry
• Assessment under way for Byron nuclear plant
• Candidate forum down to one
• Lighting up Dixon
• Budget slashed, but band plays on
• State Route 2 reopens after 7 months
• STERLING Proposed levy calls for slight tax increase
• Prophetstown takes action on late bills
• Who must report child abuse?
• Police searching for pickup thief
• Mustangs roll to state
• Dixon City Council to vote on funding band
• Court Call
• Company replacing pumps at 2 wells
• Ceremony to bury Reagan time capsule Saturday
• Council to vote on funding band
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Swordplay leads to 2 arrests at motel
• Holiday season in full swing with Hometown parade
• Atkinson mayor ready 
to run in 74th District
• Officials: Farm will be compensated
• Hometown Holidays in Rock Falls
• Newman Student of the Month
• Rock Falls High Student of the Month
• Remembering Ronnie: Family reflects
• Life, no parole
• Reopening East Second Street in Rock Falls
• Bringing care home to our vets
• Chicago man gets 17 years for selling crack in Dixon
• Rockford man charged with selling cocaine in Dixon
• Mother protests school’s response to ‘bullying’
• Ohio woman ready to make another investment in Haiti
• Remembering a humble war hero
• Open for Business: Tita's Linens by Claudia
• Sushi bar added to Dixon's restaurant roster
• Sheley gets life in prison
• Literacy efforts in Lee County
• Group seeks to expand park
• Board approves unchanged tax levy
• Protection for neighbors of wind farms?
• Ideas flow on boat docks
• 5th Republican running for 90th District seat
• Case dismissed against Sterling shooting defendant
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Fly high, Superman
• Ellwood Museum to acquire son's house
• Holiday celebration at Good Templar cottages
• Church feeds body, soul
• Local fan gears up for tonight’s release of 'Twilight'
• Sheley to be sentenced Friday in 2008 Galesburg murder
• Village of Progress community shines
• Candidates to visit Paw Paw home
• 10 Rock Falls, Sterling businesses hit in break-ins
• Board discusses background checks for coaches
• Nuisance ordinance advances
• Bakers sought for CGH Auxiliary cookie sale
• Students getting test do-overs
• Sauk trying to add pipe-welding program
• What's going on
• Holiday events are under way this weekend
• Winter art exhibit opens at Woodlawn
• Patchouli to play food pantry benefit
• Taste of Prophetstown tickets on sale
• Sheriff seeks synthetic pot ban
• Two facing heroin, coke charges
• 18-year-old gunman surrenders in Princeton
• Police surround Princeton H.S.
• Multiple business break-ins reported in Rock Falls
• Light up the holidays
• Shooting hoops in Dixon
• Board rejects wind proposal
• Bullying: Local senior attacking problem early
• Saying goodbye to ‘Superman’
• State education reforms coming local
• Leaf River child molester sentenced
• Accused Leaf River stabber not fit for trial
• No charges yet in Oregon ‘sexting’ investigation
• Route 2 in Ogle County will reopen Friday
• Board passes balanced budget
• Riverfront Commission wants input
• Some city workers get raises
• Sterling Police win $8,500 grant
• Lee County budget passes with little dissent
• Cause of death still being determined
• Lee County budget passes easily
• Number of water main breaks up
• Many members question policy for nepotism ban
• Oregon burning period ends Nov. 30
• Oregon considering new trash collection system
• Dixon Fire Training
• New walking path
• Townships feel need to justify
• Split board approves pursuit of splash pad
• Dixon Fire Department gets another grant
• Officials interested in second landfill
• Attorney: Run ads in local paper
• Proposal to cut paid holidays delayed
• Dixon Direct printing company lays off 16
• No roll calls on wind energy issue
• Council OKs snowmobile ordinance
• District to post school closure policy
• Christmas returns to the cabin
• Police seek help in car shop break-in
• Amboy fire district gets state grant
• Black Hawk Down soldiers to attend benefit
• ROCK FALLS East Second Street expected to be completed this week
• Sterling chess team makes its next move
• Arduini: Economy would be priority
• Sterling Elite basketball players serve up a dinner at homeless shelter
• Lessons on and off the court
• Single mother of four receives the key to her new Dixon house
• Country Store opens at new spot
• From homeless to full of hope
• Manzullo to seek re-election
• Council eyes improved bridge on south side
• Winds loosen power line, cause brownout
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• High School Football: Making most of another chance
• Veterans Day: Plaque honors fallen soldiers
• Celebrating Veterans Days in Sterling
• Celebrating Veterans Days in Rock Falls
• Arduini will run in 71st
• No cause yet in 7-year-old's death
• Agency to help military families get around
• Death of Rock Falls infant investigated
• Forum for candidates in 90th District set for Nov. 22
• What’s done, and left undone, after veto session?
• Open for Business: The Dancer's Hut
• Great Clips salon opens in Sterling
• Tampico saloon celebrates fifth anniversary today
• Village might ask state for splash pad grant
• Honoring veterans at Ashton-Franklin Center Elementary
• Holiday giving
• Honoring veterans in Dixon
• No answer yet for Mabley Center
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Man accused of box cutter attack during fight
• Hearing in Sterling drive-by rescheduled
• Official: Tourism appears to be up
• Deer Grove Mayor: Everyone against wind farms
• Ashton split on newspaper advertising
• Senate OKs pay for ROEs
• Getting nostalgic: Band to play free concert Sunday at Dixon
• Geting nostalgic: Band to play free concert Sunday at Dixon
• 6-year-old Dixon boy at center of abuse case dies
• Dixon 6-year-old dies
• Snow arrives early in the Sauk Valley
• Rockin' the '50s
• Ottens to run for circuit clerk
• Pay for regional superintendents makes it out of House
• District 13 votes to annex Riverdale
• Lee County circuit clerk seeking a fifth term
• Local Occupy Wall Street group looking for ideas, setting goals
• Milledgeville residents raising money for veterans memorial
• Bivins scrutinizes questionable uses of state funds
• Board amends wind farm ordinance
• Transit project to start in spring
• Veterans Day events in the Sauk Valley
• Rock Falls author promotes her trilogy
• Dixon man charged with sexually abusing teen
• New Sterling Main Street leader a lover of downtowns
• Council looks at snowmobile rules
• Echo editor put in tough situation
• Coroner still waiting for DNA test results
• Official: 28th Street problem corrected
• Holcomb man dies in crash near Byron
• Morrison found dead in his car
• Privatization idea questioned
• House attracts many nuisance calls
• Sheley Case: Attorney subpoenas SVM, other media groups
• 'A cultural shopping experience'
• Rock Falls Council expected to OK deputy fire chief
• Rock Falls man injured Monday in loader accident
• Ag careers featured at Sauk event
• Company asks to turn landfill gas into electricity
• Galt man dies in rollover, hauling grain in Michigan
• 'The harder I work, the luckier I get'
• Snow removal dispute ends
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Beyond the norm
• More schools get left behind
• Know Your Neighbor: Judy Welbourne
• Clinic opening nears
• Schilling to open Rock Falls office
• Sacco-Miller first to declare
• Big upfront costs, big energy savings
• Ashton moves legal ads, raising questions
• Prescription drug dropoff today
• Sterling safety quiz deadline Monday
• Rochelle man charged with selling drugs
• ‘Total turnaround’ for church
• Treak or treat hours in the Sauk Valley
• ELECTION 2012 Money coming in
• Halloween events in the Sauk Valley
• Comings and goings: Kids can get photos at pizzeria
• Fiery crash in Whiteside County
• Two steps forward, one back for ROEs

• Legislative commission votes to keep Mabley open
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Jobless rates dip in September
• Pension abuses anger area legislator
• Water company seeking rate hike
• Chamber to have 2012 cookout on riverfront
• Panels recommend continuing fire chief partnership
• District may privatize its food service
• Occupy protests to be held on Fridays
• Morrison sports complex nets state honor
• Halloween party tonight in Sterling
• Time capsule deadline extended
• Rock Falls chamber board names new member
• Utility co-ops plan merger
• Two plead not guilty to multiple charges in fleeing case
• Commission votes to block Mabley closure
• What's going on
• Second Fourth Fridays provides treat for locals
• One chamber down, one to go
• Board denies administrators' raises
• Senate votes down legislative oversight
• ‘Smart grid’ legislation passes
• Sterling doctor’s license pulled
• City willing to share fire chief one more year
• DIXON 'Reagan of Illinois' makes Grammy ballots
• Father drops request for no contact orders
• PROPHETSTOWN Park district foes press on
• Schools superintendent retiring in 2015
• Franklin Grove man accused of 'severely' injuring boy
• Dixon band Thunder Hooker plays a little of everything
• iFiber wrapping up Dixon installation
• Rock Falls offers sewer plant tours
• Sheley seeks new trial in Galesburg homicide
• State agency suspends Sterling doctor's license
• Riverdale votes to dissolve
• Council to OK roof work for market, Civic Center
• Superintendents’ salaries set?
• Prosecutors ask judge to reconsider ruling
• 'It would be a catastrophe'
• Man pleads not guilty in bar fight
• Woman gets probation for heroin possession
• Dixon: No charges yet in Moroney crash
• Lemons wants sentence reduced
• Board member absent 18 months
• DIXON Consultant to answer questions on historic downtown district
• Senate tweaks 'smart grid' bill
• MOUNT MORRIS Marijuana grow operation found in barn
• City eyes new trash collection system
• Sheriff launches online sex offender alert service
• Governor criticizes smart grid bill as veto session starts
• Enhanced bridge still a possibility
• Sisler remembered as a family man
• Judge halves Dixon man's bond
• Official: Wind tax will be a stable revenue source
• Board to vote on raises for 10 administrators
• Tablet users to get reader-friendly app, Shaw Media says
• Development groups want director
• Ex-coach's wife accused of 'sexting' teen
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• State Rep. Morthland visits Morrison
• Plans for a veterans park in Sterling are on hold
• Reagan Trail champion dies
• Blogging Naperville educator is Illinois Teacher of Year
• State health care bill to be addressed
• A solemn mission
• Sterling High’s Student of the Month
• Same attorney for Sheley
• Back to ‘on’ for smart grid bill?
• 3 pounds of marijuana, multiple guns seized from Dixon home
• Sisler founding family member dies
• A new Peck-ing order for ABC AmeriCorps
• Pet costume contest, adoption event at mall
• Ashton man accused of abusing Sterling teen
• Joshua Sheley gets 7 years in aggravated fleeing case
• Making a VITAL link between efforts
• COMINGS AND GOINGS Fun Jump: Inflatable playland opens in Sterling
• BETTER YOUR BUSINESS Sauk course teaches companies to be more efficient
• Man dies in accident
• Galesburg attorney will represent Sheley, judge rules Friday
• Ladies Night Out at Brandywine
• This weekend's Top 5
• Ladies Night Out
• Judge taking more time to rule on Adams' confession
• Rock Falls High School club enters Glee contest
• Man pleads guilty, gets probation after Amboy drug raid
• Dixon man gets probation for setting carport fire
• Dixon man gets probation for stealing truck
• Twin Cities PADS in need of volunteers
• Lee County officials look to protect property values
• Tuition waiver system may get scrutiny during veto session
• Sterling police warn of phone scam
• Dixon man pleads guilty to breaking into garage
• Dixon police train for dangerous stops
• Golf carts getting a green light in Dixon?
• Dixon time capsule to go in the ground Nov. 26
• Rock Falls men arraigned in robbery case
• Two plead not guilty in Dixon bar fight
• Payday coming soon for regional superintendents?
• On behalf of ComEd? Not so
• Amboy police seek info in vehicle burglaries
• Keeping an eye on Dixon parks
• Schilling 'laying low' after online death threat
• Dixon schools not making the grade
• Board: Don't disband park district in Prophetstown
• Accused drug dealer pleads not guilty
• Amboy woman pleads not guilty to drug charges
• Bond set for two arrested in car chase
• Ogle County property values down – except farmland
• Lending a helping hand
• Board wants no more surprises
• Chairman: Subdivision issue ‘dead’
• Whiteside County Board debates wind issue
• $1.9 million shortfall 'a little misleading'
• Two accused of looting twice-burned house
• Two accused of looting twice-burned house
• Slower harvest this season
• Judge considering change-of-venue motion
• Where's the money?
• East Second Street work progressing
• Police: Chicago men fought, fled, caught
• Police: Woman sold coke to informant
• Column: Let's make readers insiders
• Board halves panel members’ salaries
• Most speakers against Mabley closure
• Lower electric payments in Dixon?
• Lower electric payments in Sterling?
• Oregon man accused of running over Chana man
• Cause of Palmyra Road fire under investigation
• Group wants parents to be in the know
• Rock Falls: Hearing, vote on land swap tonight
• First Avenue Bridge work to begin in January
• Petition effort draws backers, foes
• Dixon band offers to slash its budget
• McCue sewer project nearly done
• Ohio suspect appears in federal court
• Lowe's to close 20 stores, lay off nearly 2,000
• Officials: KSB project under budget
• Fire damages house; 
10 agencies respond
• Amboy woman faces additional charges
• Dixon City Council to discuss band
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Public hearing tonight
• ‘I fulfilled 
my obligation’
• Column: Steve Jobs’ message clear in any language
• Sterling Student of the Month: Paige Lobdell
• Plan's nearly in place
• Boland will take on Jacobs in 36th District
• On a learning curve
• More are fleeing for work
• A lesson in resilience
• Honk if you’ve had it with Wall Street
• Comings and goings
• Dixon, Morrison dealers offer electric alternatives
• A guy and his 'dock dog'
• Hultgren dials up push against federal regulations
• Rock Island man injured in Whiteside ATV accident
• Auction items detail one longtime family's life
• This weekend's Top 5
• Petition drive seeks to disband P-town park district
• IN BRIEF Rock Island man injured in Whiteside ATV accident
• KSB Hospital upgrades emergency, surgery departments
• Rochelle Police looking for serial Road Ranger robber
• Smooth sailing for ’12 Lee County budget?
• STERLING A boy and his 'dock dog'
• Day Trip: Pumpkins take flight in Morton
• KSB spreads it wings
• Bank robbery suspect arrested in Amboy
• Sterling man pleads not guilty in theft case
• Teaching fire safety
• Amboy meets its other half
• Spencer wants letter of 'confesssion' admitted at trial
• Sheley wants Galesburg attorney reappointed
• Protest planned 
in Sterling
• Rock Falls man in fair condition
• Ex-Dixon official picked for board
• Cause of Rock Falls fire still under investigation
• D13 board wants to see ROE supers paid
• Trio pleads not guilty in mob action case
• Nelson snow removal decision 'up in air'
• Adams files third federal suit
• Popular Irish folk band returning to Dixon
• Dixon natives, friends form rock band
• Fall fun, spooktacular events and more
• Sheley wants Galesburg attorney to represent him
• Lee County panel wants to help food pantry
• Tax-free splash for village?
• No early retirement packages this year
• Vote will follow Oct. 25 hearing on dissolution
• House fire in Rock Falls
• Whiteside County panel: Keep wind setback same
• Council nixes enhanced bridge
• Sterling's first rehabbed home still for sale
• Riverfront to get its own wine
• Man injured in one-vehicle crash
• Volunteers fast for food bank funds
• Route 2 construction winding down
• Board puts off picking new commissioner
• Rock Falls motorcyclist still in serious condition
• Names released in weekend motorcycle crash
• What are Lee board chairman’s plans?
• Payroll issue upsets workers
• Police seeking suspect in stolen credit card case
• Two men charged with home invasion, robbery
• Panel to consider increasing wind turbine setback
• Sunday crash victims not yet ID’d
• Riverfront, Tourism still may team up
• Company calls off boil advisory
• A well-read leader
• Tracks set to open soon
• Village says no to wind farms
• Boil water advisory lifted in Sterling
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Five arrested in coke investigation
• Sterling under city-wide boil order
• Paving a legacy for veterans
• Man arrested after 3-hour standoff
• Religions go online
• Morrison: Council eyes bridge project
• Sterling's city management intern blazing trail of her own
• City has plans for sidewalk snow removal
• Private school in Galt gets a new name
• Rock Falls woman dies in motorcycle crash
• Sterling under boil order
• Rock Falls man charged with harboring runaway has Oct. 18 pretrial
• Bringing city websites up to speed
• Taking on the trash
• Broadcaster optimistic about corn, soybean yields
• New voter ID cards being mailed in Lee County
• Trucking company won't face charges in triple fatality
• Superintendents salaries made public
• Zeimetz: I owe it to the people to speak up
• Open For Business: Kelly's
• N.Y. man identified as driver found dead in truck
• Sterling Police looking for credit card theft suspects
• Sterling man charged with sex abuse, indecent solicitation of child
• Dixon dismisses criticism of how he handled major cases
• Irish-themed fundraiser for Veterans Memorial Park
• Escaped inmate captured in Albany
• Former Dixon restaurateur wants change of venue
• Bow hunters take to the trees at The Meadows
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Teen charged with sexual assault
• Sterling farmer accused of pulling gun on a seed rep
• DHS chief, Bivins tour Mabley Center
• Out-of-state trucker found dead behind the wheel
• Armed robber hits Citizens First State Bank
• Probation for teen in Harmon burglary
• Whiteside County: Panel OKs sheriff's request for new cars
• Scientist says wind farms bad for health
• Dixon man sentenced in tent-slashing crime
• Dixon sex offender gets prison for abusing teen
• City seeks ComEd’s attention
• Judge throws out confession in shaken baby case
• Armed robbery in Ohio
• Taxes fund Dixon band, while Sterling also raises funds
• New trial in armed robberies for Dixon man
• Students help fill up local pantries
• Two teens to join Rock Falls Chamber board
• 'A high five' can mean a lot, Erie students told
• Simon's college tour brings her to Sauk
• Teen pleads not guilty to home invasion, battery
• 'Vultus' brings a touch of Halloween to Dixon
• Judge boots second suit by Adams against jail staff
• Iowa man pleads not guilty in meth case
• Proposed camping sites concern some in county
• Who's the complaint department?
• Tentative budget $1.5M in the hole
• Trout fishing comes to Centennial
• First piece of Reagan Peace Park exhibit moves to Welcome Center
• Iowa man charged in Lee County car theft
• Sterling police arrest third Dixon suspect
• Land swap progresses
• Officials want enough snowplows
• Sentencing postponed in Harmon burglary
• State money may be coming after all
• Should city still pay for a band?
• Some pools not meeting rules
• Column: Franklin Grove mayor saw ouster coming
• Two arrested, one wanted in downtown bar fight
• Quinn told no closures or layoffs
• Three charged in apartment fight
• Decision on confession moved to Thursday
• School board considering Marshall gift
• Final riverfront plan ready for unveiling
• City, business looking to swap land parcels
• Council to consider bids for local house
• Ex-car dealer Nelson victim of fraud
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Power of the Purse helps fund free books for kids
• No drugs found in Sterling High School search, police say
• Teaching and being taught
• Twin Cities PADS Shelter prepares to open its doors for the season
• Get your swings in at The Cage in Morrison
• What if parents don't pay?
• Board evaluates district
• Microwave chefs compete at St. Mary's
• Germans arrive to have dinner among friends
• VA CLINIC Facility on track to take patients in Janaury
• 'Significant' marijuana dealer busted, police say
• WHITESIDE COUNTY Arduini to seek re-election
• TAMPICO Still a struggle to pay for statue
• SHOOTER SENTENCED Sterling man gets 4 years for gunplay, 6 for jail contraband
• MABLEY Community showing its support for state-run facility
• Scarecrows wait to go home with visitors
• Possible 
foe critic 
of state’s attorney
• Sewer plant project will cost millions
• Iowa man charged with possession, DUI
• Rebate key for dealership
• Council eyes demolition
• Police target cellphone use near schools
• Sunny's time to shine
• Deficit budget approved
• Quiz could help fire department
• Enjoy Autumn on Parade
• Accused dealer to be tried Oct. 18
• Volunteers to fast, sleep in boxes
• Whiteside County rolls out new website
• Sex offenders must register with campus police
• 19-year-old charged with theft
• Veterans fair coming to mall
• New boat ramp nearly ready
• Fund transfer narrowly OK’d for clerk’s office
• Park District 
to look at new sources 
of revenue
• Congressman: Don't tax the rich
• City establishes $100 fee for door-to-door sales
• City hopes to cash in on lower interest rates
• City considers paying $141,000 to design bridge
• Gaze at stars 
Friday at Sauk
• City plans new tower design
• DNA now needed to identify worker
• New member, new budget expected
• Sterling man wants new trial
• Truck driver: 'It was all an accident'
• Teen faces home invasion, battery charges
• Schools: Federal laws are unrealistic
• Families getting a chance to ask their questions
• Open government and the process of hiring
• City wants to pay off 
old bills with new loan
• Sheley to represent himself
• Sheley to represent himself in Whiteside County; trial date Nov. 1
• Wisconsin woman dies in motorcycle crash
• New column offers insight into Sterling-Rock Falls
• Soldier shot, killed in North Carolina
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Official urges caution on setbacks
• Verizon returning to Rock Falls
• Banner presented 
to marine’s mom
• Open for Business: Martin's Steaks and Spirits
• Teen Reach folds due to lack of funding
• Man charged with breaking into garage
• Classroom getting smarter
• Vandals damage several cars in Dixon
• Fourth Fridays makes strong first impression
• Sheley comes home
• Troubled Path
• Cut-your-own tree at Sinnissippi once more
• Enrollment up slightly at Sauk
• An unwelcome hiatus from running
• Girl charged with battery in SHS fight
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Punt, pass and kick competition Saturday
• Ready for disaster?
• Center reopens in Sterling
• Local unpaid officials don't want loans
• Department wins $45,000 squad car
• Area farmers have it better than others
• Two unions take no raises
• Riverdale moving toward dissolving into RF13
• Next year’s budget $1.6 million in the black
• Angel Food Ministries goes out of business
• Proposal to combine polling places withdrawn
• Two local groups find new homes
• Board members criticize ex-panel member
• Board member resigns after 9 years
• Officials won't lend ear to residents
• New law fines owners of faulty alarm systems
• McDonald’s shut down as precaution
• Police seek owners of 
stolen items
• Neighbors want golf carts at Lowell Park
• School Board OKs budget deficit
• Budget on tonight's agenda
• Sinnissippi Centers wins printer
• Hydrants to be flushed on Palmyra
• Sheley, elections to put county in the red
• Seeberg urged to reverse move
• Board turns down RX card
• Defendant will stay in custody of IDHS
• Ex-rival criticizes state's attorney
• Council puts limits on public comment
• Cameras being installed to fight park vandalism
• Crawford Realty gets the OK to move to residential area
• Prosecution lays out its 'trail of evidence'
• Sheley not shackled in court, but wore stun belt
• Prosecution: Videos key to conviction
• Middle school trying to win $150,000
• Council agrees to hire fourth officer
• City Council considers plan that could cut electric bills
• Shooting may leave man, 56, paralyzed
• Council to limit the time public can speak
• Jury finds Sheley guilty on all counts
• Sheley trial update: Jurors deliberating case
• Sheley trial update: Sheley won't testify at first murder trial
• Paint the Town celebrates 17 years
• $4,300 in legal bills spent to keep texts secret
• Charges, citations still being considered
• Unused turbines worry officials
• Township to village: No more snow removal
• Garden club has a number of projects in the works
• Kreider has new CEO
• Fiesta Days Queen comes from line of royalty
• In the fast lane: Blackhawk throws out old perception of bowling alleys
• State stops help for funerals
• Local government on the air
• Crash leads to search, arrests
• McDonald’s lobby shut down for 5 hours
• Rochelle man kills himself with deputies nearby
• Differences ground plans for warplane event
• Movin' On Up moves on out
• State’s case nearing close
• Polo power rate reduced
• Dixon hotel on the market
• Turbine troubles placed on the record
• Diamond Robinson
• Sheley trial update: Sheley's, wife's DNA found in victim's truck
• Sheley trial update: Forensic evidence found in St. Louis
• Sheley, victim’s DNA mixed
• Students get living history lesson
• Make yourself at home
• Testimony: Sheley approached trucker in Missouri parking lot
• New sewer plant, lower electric bills in future
• Railroad museum opens Saturday
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Officials want rules for unused wind turbines
• Cheaper tuition for out-of-area students?
• Report: Both are at fault
• Rock Falls man faces 13 years on weapons, drug charges
• Proposed 2012 budget projects higher revenue
• Montmorency set to approve new board member
• Students may have to wear IDs
• Sheley trial update: Judge denies call for mistrial
• Sheley trial update: Forensics evidence links Sheley to stolen truck
• Murder defendant gets new attorney, his third
• Greyhound drops Dixon from service
• Wife testifies about why she didn't call police
• No answer from board chairman
• Former Sterling official to serve on board
• Holly Sheley's mom: My daughter is 'just as guilty' as her husband
• Celebrity movie premiere Saturday at the Midway
• DeKalb film crew looking for extras
• Annual festival a 3-day celebration of local Latino culture
• Disaster planning forum in Sterling
• Seeing through stereotypes
• Sauk concert season kicks off Sept. 23; Memberships still available
• Some member seek prescription card backing
• Six businesses caught selling liquor to minors
• Petunias in peril
• Village makes it clear: No chickens
• Champs get Hollywood shout-out
• Motorcycle accident remains under investigation
• Sheley trial update: Wife says she waited to call police because she was 'scared'
• Sheley trial update: Sheley's wife to testify this afternoon
• Three-time candidate isn't giving it another try
• Comic at Sauk tonight
• Chief: 'The world has changed’
• Judge not ready to rule on George’s confession
• Small park may get revamped
• Sheley may be shackled
• Official: Object used in murder
• Commission recommends keeping manager
• Whiteside panel gets mixed reviews
• Village wants splash pad
• Hearing scheduled for property tax increase
• Oregon lawyer announces candidacy
• Sheley trial update: Prosecutors want Sheley shackled after flare-up
• Sheley trial update: Graphic autopsy photos show 'massive' injuries
• A trail of blood detailed
• Council approves two new ordinances
• Village reschedules turbine setback hearing, vote
• Village finds way to shed building
• Effort brings $3,900 in mass mailing savings
• A budgetary surprise waiting to happen?
• 'You don't need to be afraid'
• Marriage ceremony literally a blast
• Lessons with strings attached
• Sheley trial update: State trooper testifies about crime scene
• Sterling officers hear gunshots; no injuries
• Testimony resumes today in Sheley murder trial
• ELECTION 2012 Fourth Republican announces candidacy for 90th district
• Court Call: Some of this week's area court cases
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Woman, 80, dies in crash
• A day to remember at Dixon park
• Honoring their courage
• Next adventure for Sterling woman
• 4 to interview for board seat
• P&P looks to add jobs
• SHS teacher fights stereotypes
• Questioning official irritates some
• Police: Registered sex offender was near school
• Chicago man arrested in suspected drug dealings
• Still hits home
• A bumpy road for memorial
• Inquiring farmer gets box seat
• ‘Trail of 
evidence’ promised
• ComEd brings pitch for smart grid to area
• Sheley trial update: First witnesses testify
• Sheley trial update: Prosecution lays out its case
• Lee County Board member killed
• City to clear downtown sidewalks
• Sheriff says to go after drug seizure assets
• Quinn: Mabley Center to close
• Kite festival reaches new heights
• Lee County official dies in accident
• Mabley Center among Quinn's budget cuts
• Sheley trial update: Last alternate still has to be picked
• SHELEY TRIAL Opening arguments could come today
• Businesses seek more time to sell liquor
• Autopsy results inconclusive
• Work at Tollway Drive concluding this week
• Employees perform heart-wrenching 9/11 searches
• Bivins doubts prison on list
• Longer wait for snowplows?
• Landfill not affecting drinking water, officials say
• Registration is on for Paint the Town
• Groom surprises bride with fireworks
• RE/MAX HOT AIR BALLOON TO VISIT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL IN DIXON ON SEPT. 16
• Sheley Trial Update: 4 more jurors sworn in
• ‘One in million chance’ saves day
• Rock River hit with severe case of carp virus
• Dixon street maintenance starts
• Radium in city well must be monitored
• Teen arrested after Facebook threat
• Panel proposes longer wind setback
• Defense seeks more chances to question jurors
• STERLING Council agrees to study consolidation
• Crawford Realty allowed to move
• High-speed broadband project begins
• Sterling man’s condition improves
• No ICE detention center
• Autopsy results not yet available
• 22-year-old charged with stabbing his dad
• State recognizes five educators
• Oregon driver will not face criminal charges
• P&P to break ground Thursday
• Body found likely missing migrant worker
• No presidential snubs from local lawmakers
• Park goes by the wayside
• Work to begin on new office
• New judge appointed 
in local wind farm fight
• Council to decide on fourth officer
• Mobile home park to hook into city water
• Sterling man, 39, in critical condition after crash
• District reorganization presentation Wednesday
• Telling stories
• Council to consider consolidation study
• Breakin', brushin' and bathin'
• Group aims to get professionals talking to each other
• Body found in cornfield north of Tampico
• Man behind the name
• Sauk Commons 'fine and solid'
• Man charged in Rock Falls bank robbery
• Field filling up for GOP
• Crash on I-39 kills Wis. man
• Judge: Sheley trial could start Wednesday
• Public housing: Waiting list in Whiteside, vacancies in Lee
• Hands-on operation
• Dixon company recalling products
• Sheley trial update: Four more jurors sworn in Friday
• A party to kick off campaign
• Chain producer sold for $92 million
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Storm sewers in on East Second
• Wind panel reaches the end, sort of
• Water project deadline requires action
• Sterling lawyer Joyce to run for state’s attorney
• Democrat to run for Illinois House
• Four jurors sworn in
• Destinations promise to satisfy
• Sheley trial update: Four jurors sworn in
• Trial update: Four jurors accepted in Sheley case
• Public Works committee to tour new sewer plant
• Kodiak going out of business
• WWII plaque to honor those who didn't come home
• No jurors selected on third day
• 'Teaching clinic' joins KSB lineup
• Village may shed building
• Federal reps get a grilling
• Orchestra to open its 58th season in Sterling
• Roadwork on track between Oregon, Byron
• Giveaways, music mark skate park grand opening
• Search on for man who exposed himself
• Arellano: 'I'm a reformer'
• Mayor Blanton returns to City Hall after surgery
• Construction projects to start later than planned
• Community State Bank robber still on the loose
• Day 2, and only one juror seated
• TRIAL UPDATE: Judge denies Sheley motion to two separate trials
• Sauk hosts groundbreaking
• Councilwoman says utility tax 'misleading'
• City to consider agricultural zones
• Lee County board member announces candidacy
• Ouster is a first for planning panel
• Judge bars 'gruesome' autopsy photos
• New church to open doors
• Majority of council for ban
• Community State Bank robbed; suspect remains at large
• Sheley trial update: Attorneys go through autopsy photos
• Jury selection under way in Sheley trial
• Prosecutors drop seven charges against Sheley
• Board president: Turbine a bad investment
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Miracle for St. Francis student
• Two Dixon men announcing House bids
• Milledgeville man charged with dealing marijuana
• Dixon man in jail; more arrests pending, police say
• Oregon cousins rake in $40,000
• Adventure Fest makes a big splash
• Open for Business: Hill's Electric Motor Service Inc.
• Missing woman is found
• Following judge's decision, regional superintendents continue to work unpaid
• Sterling man gets probation in weapons case
• Breaking (ground) point for project
• Finding the perfect 12
• VA clinic now on course for a winter opening
• Does Deer Grove have the power?
• Demmer dreaming big
• 28-year-old charged with sexually assaulting a teen
• No shackles for Sheley during trial
• Tougher penalties for having, loaning a fake ID
• Quinn touts electric cars, still plans to veto power grid bill
• Mitchell retiring
• Resident opposes new stop signs
• Escape the politics in Springfield
• Neighborhood up in arms about Crawford Realty
• Sterling man withdraws from state House race
• Ogle County man gets 2 years in prison
• Retired Secret Service agent challenging Jacobs
• City OKs $3 million in water projects
• Netherlands couple brings WWII memories home
• Problematic property
 on Morris St. targeted
• Sterling launching Fourth Fridays event
• Former music teacher trying his hand at songwriting
• Comcast offers deals to low-income families
• Part of Bradshaw to close Friday
• No debates, 
just questions over money
• Albany man gets probation, fines
• School district offered land for new high school
• New cameras for Centennial Auditorium
• Rock Falls sex offender gets 4 years
• Dixon man charged with child abuse
• Teacher gets jail, probation
• Search on for Polo woman with dementia
• Annual Depot Days celebration starts Thursday
• Board favors another WWII event
• Teen falls victim to encephalitis
• Man behind petunias ready to retire
• Judge tosses Dixon man’s guilty plea
• Whiteside County justices are out
• Sheley has 2 Whiteside judges removed from case
• DOWNTOWN STERLING Water line break closes 3 businesses
• Benefit set for terminally ill child
• What are the benefits for locals?
• Village officials caught unawares
• New principals put parents at top of their lists
• Rock Falls man accused of probation violation
• School may sell turbine: Energy savings less than projected
• A river runs to it
• Hultgren releases new mobile app
• Police seeking info in break-ins
• Roadwork to start Wednesday south of Mount Carroll
• Politics blamed in party cancellation
• Official: 'Something doesn't smell right'
• Attendance up at this year's fair
• Dutch's last Eureka classmate dies at 101
• Bikers show off pink pride
• City meets country in Sublette
• Police: Teen used hammer to attack man
• DIXON North Court Street property a 'disgrace,' mayor says
• Good day goes to waste in Lee County
• City seeks families who want to buy first rehabbed home
• Rock Falls man charged with selling cocaine
• State's attorney's letter questioned
• Sports facilities down but not out
• KYN Jeanne Vargas
• Main Street executive director resigns
• Boland to announce candidacy in Rock Falls
• Business is up across the Sauk Valley
• County wants handle on comp time
• Owner fences off parking lot for safety reasons
• Dixon man gets 8 years in armed robbery case
• Morthland announces bid for re-election
• Surveying featured in Springfield museum
• Bicyclist hospitalized after collision with car
• Barbershop chorus to perform Sunday
• SVCC renovation under way
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Wind meeting goes to the birds
• Dixon teen gets jail in vandalism, burglary cases
• Bridge victims, baseball player to be honored
• Plan Commission discusses change to sign code
• Longtime plan commission member booted
• Obama chats with locals at Whiteside County Fair
• Company confident about biomass plant
• Ex-superintendent’s assistant sentenced to probation for theft
• Board OKs budget with $4.4 million deficit
• Board discusses budget, sets public hearing date
• City shows off first renovated home
• Bank gets $4.5 million in federal money
• Former city administrator quits his new job, too
• Law enforcers caught off guard by surprise visit
• World conquerors: Big third inning pushes Sterling to win in title game
• Obama at Whiteside County Fair
• Elvis impersonator charged in scam
• Board rejects gas pump deal with city
• Spencer won't seek re-election
• Officials defend ex-member, criticize paper
• 911 dispatch site funding OK’d
• Board OKs nonunion raises; 24 workers will get increase
• Rock Falls man seriously injured
• Morthland to seek re-election
• Council OKs road project money
• Defendant again wants 
to fire appointed attorney
• City considers water rate hike
• Proposed budget to be unveiled
• Start celebration with Don, Doña Sunday
• Local nonprofit moving into second round
• Readers debate Dixon UFO
• Petunia Festival needs volunteers
• New voter registration cards coming in the mail
• County brings gas pump counterproposal to city
• Pilot has a vision for air event
• Official resigns after misdemeanor charge
• Staff increases as revenue declines
• Board to decide on raises
• Company closer to zoning approval
• Dixon man dies, Sterling teens, Ohio woman injured
• Public hearing on appropriations ordinance tonight
• Board tightening rules on athletes' grades
• Outnumbered, but undeterred
• Record-setting Reagan Trail Days full of surprises
• City looks to sell seized residential property
• Court Call: A roundup of this week's court cases
• Make-A-Wish makes dreams come true
• First house ready for income-eligible family
• City quiet on legal bill
• How accessible are local elected officials?
• Potential GOP presidential candidate visits Boyhood Home
• Open for Business: Tools, Computers And More
• Current, former Dixonites honored at Reagan gala
• Judge will allow taped statement of deceased woman at Sheley trial
• Local teen found guilty
• Wind farm files motion to dismiss lawsuit
• Could interchange be a savior?
• Longtime member resigns
• Skateboarder builds for speed
• Worker falls at Mississippi dam
• Man on bridge prompts closure
• Prophetstown man dies in collision with motor home
• Boland to run for Congress
• Official wants budget done quickly
• Lawmakers disagree about legislative scholarships
• Lee County gets unexpected windfall
• Mount Morris man gets 4 years
• Bench trial resumes today
• Kids have some fun while choosing supplies
• McDonald's First Store Museum gives glimpse of the past
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Couple pleads not guilty
• Who has power over fee hikes?
• Panel: Take step toward joint 911
• Attorneys, corporate reps visit cornfield
• Witness 
‘can’t recall’ shooting
• East Second Street construction begins
• Longtime commission members won't be reappointed
• Assessor wants postage savings now
• Dixon man pleads not guilty to dealing
• Hearings coming to the Sauk Valley
• Board passes tentative budget
• Former county clerk dies at 84
• ‘One more tool in our toolbox’
• Rock Falls woman not cited in crash into Sterling building
• Police still investigating leads
• Vote on tentative budget likely tonight
• Amboy teen tries to save House program
• Wind company promotes project
• Commission, tourism board still talking partnership
• Road, bridge work begins today
• Volunteer needed for Dixon Rural Fire
• Toxicology report pending in death
• Few tips on missing migrant worker
• Official wants all towns protected
• Health insurance going up for city workers
• Union deal to include raises
• Still no word on what will happen to Mabley Center
• Total compensatory time?
• Company faces $69,300 in OSHA fines
• 15-year-old wants to honor electrocution victims, friends
• Sauk group seeks school supplies
• Some get to use amenities for free
• Council to get more space
• Auditor: City's finances completely fine
• Irrigator, other equipment to be preserved
• Panel opposes septic fee hike
• Judge allows Rock Falls man to switch to bench trial
• Dixon police arrest brother of major local dealer
• Cubs win one for the Gipper
• Semis a hit at annual harvest fest
• Mayor OKs Wise’s ousting of local man
• Work under way at NIU, Kish
• Is field work safe for teens?
• Broadband project advances: Whiteside, Lee counties to benefit
• Native Americans honor veterans
• Village delays turbines vote
• Court Call
• Step out of the bar, don’t go far
• New blog will keep business readers informed
• Open for Business: Northwest Computer and Electronics
• Electrocution victim's father sues
• Byron Adams speaks his mind
• Movin' On Up moves past protests
• Business not flashy, but has impact
• Electrocution victim's father sues
• Official backs bigger wind farm setback
• Morrison panel ready to lend money
• Lee sheriff warns of home repair scam
• Benefit Sunday for Rock Falls woman
• Whiteside sheriff pushes for newer squad cars
• REGIONAL CRIME Sterling woman, 2 others held in string of burglaries
• Morrison group eyes parking compliance
• Allergic reaction sends Dixon parks chief to hospital
• Tea party wants Schilling to explain his vote
• Sterling Moose lodge celebrating 100th birthday
• For now, job still is all work, no pay
• Sterling man gets 2 years for aggravated battery
• City's new sewer plant online
• Blackert: Diverse background a plus
• A Reagan memory: Dutch came in second best to dreamy George Montgomery
• Panel cuts back sheriff's request
• Lyndon man injured in motorcycle crash
• Judge to rule on Dixon shaken baby motion next month
• Housing agencies get federal money
• Woman gets 4 years for kicking cop
• Official: Departments stay conservative in budget plans
• Local organizations vying for tech upgrades
• New administrator getting her feet wet
• ‘Distraught’ man with weapon taken to CGH
• Registration begins for Harvest Hammer
• Stabbing suspect deemed unfit for trial
• Officials: Don't go into debt
• WHITESIDE COUNTY Township wants help with roads
• Official wants changes to GE plan
• Rutherford: 'We are addicted to debt'
• Panel questioned on wind issues
• Schilling, Manzullo vote in favor of legislation
• Door-to-door license fees set at $25
• Major renovation planned downtown
• Sauk Medical Clinic remains open after DEA search
• Suspect going to Stateville first
• Rock Falls man charged with sexual assault
• Council OKs Locust Street repairs
• Group: Citizen's ouster broke law
• Lower power rates coming for some
• Administrator to give update on first week
• Dixon considers door-to-door license fee
• Hot dogs, cool dogs coming to downtown
• Long's decision to kick out man criticized
• Riding out the challenges
• Interstate yard sale returns this weekend
• Albany man injured in motorcycle accident
• Court Call
• Taking steps to keep Xavier's legacy alive
• STERLING Suspect in attempted murder heading home
• Attempted murder suspect arrested in Chicago
• Facade program gaining steam
• Suspect in stabbings to have fitness hearing
• Monsanto changes detasseling protocol
• Friends until the end
• Fundraising campaign for 2011 begins Monday
• Here, summer means Selmi’s sweet corn
• ‘Courtesy’ citations will keep fines in city
• No quit in plans for riverfront
• Building needs new parking lot
• Bumpy road to justice
• Big changes to wind rules near?
• Applications in for electric department spot
• Urban Excursions provide a different twist to visiting Chicago
• Police, DEA search local clinic
• Flood worries along river in Carroll, Whiteside
• Congress hopefuls oppose Boehner plan
• Poker run set for Sterling teens
• Panel gives go ahead to split DND land
• Sauk Valley unemployment up this month
• Judge hears arguments on whether to toss confession
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Open for Business: Sow Belly's
• Dixon woman to open eatery in Rock Falls
• Business Notebook
• Process puts college to the test
• An evening in the president's shadow
• Memorial run scheduled for Aug. 6
• The Price is Right in faith communities
• Boys bag grass for flowers
• Treasure is where you find it
• Winners of Nuts About Art
• Officers elected and awards presented at annual meeting
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Drawing to be held for Potter’s Marsh waterfowl sites
• Peg Williams
• Free foot screenings
• Safe Sitter course at MCH
• Ogle County 4-H scholarships awarded
• Registration for Montmorency School
• Dairy farmers' focus results in better milk
• Health screenings, pre-diabetes session to be offered
• Quinn touts drug prevention in new Illinois laws
• Senate rejects House GOP budget-cutting plan
• Man once thought dead arrested in Vegas
• 40 arrested for buying fake IDs from China
• Nation wilts as heat wave spreads eastward
• Heat may be factor in 6 Chicago-area deaths
• Texas Ed Board compromises on evolution materials
• Drunken driving, traffic crime deportations way up
• Illinois to Iowa: Make decision on passenger line
• New law bars pointing lasers at airplanes
• How the debt limit showdown could affect you
• 2 killed in Metra accident outside Chicago
• Ill. law bars health licenses for sex offenders
• Inmate sues, demands land to start own country
• Auction items sought for event
• US-South Korean team investigates claim of buried Agent Orange
• Illinois lacks money to help the poor keep cool
• Bear with jar stuck on head for 3 weeks finally freed in Smokies
• Tortoise's artificial limb came from Ace Hardware
• FEC: John Edwards must pay back $2.3 million in campaign funds
• Sterling men held on $150,000 bond
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Unemployment rises for second straight month
• Following Lincoln's footsteps
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• S. Ill. coroner blames heat in 2 more deaths
• End of an era: Last space shuttle comes home
• Reagan exhibit at Smithsonian aims to cover scope of his life
• Lemons gets 22 years
• Prison resumes forcible medication of Loughner
• Lemons gets 22 years in 2009 Ashton murder
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Veterans sought for next trip to nation’s capital
• New band playing Fifth Friday
• Overheated fan set cardboard on fire
• School board ponders fate of fire-damaged building
• Migrant worker not found
• Dixon musicians to open for ’70s powerhouse
• Country trapped in ‘heat dome’
• Authorities: 3 swept over waterfall presumed dead
• Suspect in 1957 slaying OKs return to Illinois
• NICIL plans open house Monday at new office
• Outdoors trip planned in Byron
• Choir to perform at Sterling church
• Take advantage of opportunities to hear music in the park and downtown
• Classics will line the Riverfront
• Republicans sue over Illinois legislative remap
• FOR THOSE '50 AND BETTER' Senior Showcase to feature more than 50 displays
• Obama open to short-term deal
• Tractor-trailer show new to annual harvest fest
• Review of regulations has farmers, lawmakers worried
• County signs off on downtown TIF district
• Officials differ on pay raises
• Public input rules pass board
• Officials: Get handle on expenses
• Sterling band to perform tonight
• Family homeless after blaze
• Young photographers exhibit their work
• New computers to help with testing
• Bigger wind farm setback pushed
• Arbitrator: Quinn must give pay raises to workers
• Teen charged with attempted sex assault
• New business awaiting permit
• Bipartisan debt plan emerges in Senate, but House GOP goes own way
• Business groups complain about Illinois taxes
• Prisoner sues, demands land to start own country
• Detasseler goes missing
• State kills riverfront project
• Some forge ahead despite heat wave
• Judge re-appoints Galesburg attorney
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Search on for missing detasseler
• Judge re-appoints attorney in Sheley case
• Illinois' 10th casino opens in Des Plaines
• Panel happy with wind farm setback
• County presents public transportation plan
• Board agrees to fix road damage
• Tuesday conflict: House GOP on big spending cuts
• Still sizzlin'
• Benefit Sunday for Sterling woman fighting cancer
• Second London police official quits in scandal
• Prophetstown Percheron a 4-H fair star
• A peek into the past
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• District releases teacher’s texts
• Thinking of getting a smaller car? Wait until fall
• Fashionable and frugal fashionistas strut the runway
• East Second road work ahead
• Deputies looking for driver who injured teen
• Golfers shaken after lightning strike
• Bodies of Illinois couple recovered at lake
• Flags stolen from Rock Falls armory
• Autopsy: Rochelle man apprently drowned
• City Council to vote on new ordinances
• Take precautions and try to stay cool
• Register by Wednesday for power of attorney senimar
• Benefit for stabbing victims
• Community center planned
• Was election a wind of change?
• Late pay makes schools tap reserves
• Suspect sought in Sterling High break-in
• Group questions public input policy
• IT official defends current system
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Rock Falls church offers Bible school
• Dalai Lama praises Illinois for banning death penalty
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Bills kept from Quinn
• 4 little girls welcome Dad home
• Superintendent severances 
costing taxpayers millions
• Rochelle man's body found in quarry
• Farm innovations: Conference features new technologies that help farmers pad bottom line
• Training to become a hospice volunteer
• Angus Association names new member
• Final days of the Dixon library reading program
• PFLAG to meet Sunday in Dixon
• Helping students transition into college
• Friends of the Lanark Public Library sell commemorative t-shirt
• Tampico Reagan Centennial Parade winners announced
• Raegan artwork unveiled
• Lock and Dam Tours
• Autism and Asperger's conference comes to Dixon
• Helping others while helping yourself
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Know Your Neighbor: Tracy Muur
• Military news
• Family fun night includes food, fun and 4-H
• Plenty of food for thought
• Taking bids at the Whiteside County 4-H show
• Student of the Month: Logan Murray
• Illinois Farm Families offer free groceries for a year
• Sheley to judge: I need a lawyer
• BYRON Schools superintendent will be let go
• Chrysler to suspend workers videotaped drinking near plant
• Students prepare history of the future
• Pie's not just in the sky
• Peterson tries to stop movie project
• New hiring freeze policy considered
• Amboy man accused of burglary, intimidation
• Your Weekend Top 5
• NYC man held in boy's slaying says he hears voices
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• FBI opens probe into activities of Murdoch's News Corp.
• 17th District hopeful visits Whiteside clinic
• Minn. gov., GOP leaders have deal to end shutdown
• Requests for jobless benefits sink
• Civilian war deaths hit a record in Afghanistan
• Divided panel backs pay hikes
• Sentencing postponed a second time
• Simon greets Governor's Rural Affairs Council
• In LA, dire warnings as freeway closure looms
• Giuliani sounds like a candidate in N.H. remarks
• What's going on
• NYC man held in boy's slaying says he hears voices
• ComEd predicts power restored for all by Friday
• In LA, dire warnings as freeway closure looms
• Giuliani heads to NH to explore presidential bid
• Study: Racial differences in Ill. traffic stops
• Ex-coach files appeal in school district lawsuit
• Cafe to donate profits to stabbing victims
• Three explosions in Mumbai kill at least 21
• Presidential longshot in area today
• Murdoch drops bid for British Sky Broadcasting
• Leaders lack followers to end clash
• Cowboys and Indians in Oregon
• Bernanke: Fed ready to act if economy worsens
• County's truck stop expenses revised, lowered
• $86 million raised in 2nd quarter for Obama's re-election
• Dixon police looking for burglar
• Board eyes nepotism policy
• Artists, crafters needed for new show and sale
• St. Mary’s hosting beanbag tourney
• Fundraising ride coming up soon
• Youth soccer league breaks ground on building
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Egypt fires more than 600 top police officials
• 8-year-old Brooklyn boy is killed and dismembered
• Illinois GOP rep. says Obama 'lying' on debt ceiling
• Rockford women open home for their moms
• Building projects could start soon
• Police searching for suspect in home invasion
• Farmer dies in crash
• House GOP fails to turn off light bulb standards
• Afghanistan war vet given highest honor
• Free eye tests for diabetics
• Voters back turbine ban
• Support Gruops, Clubs and Services
• Power back for majority of ComEd users
• Should parents lose custody of super obese kids?
• Netflix rates rise up to 60 pct for DVD, streaming
• Deadly strikes follow U.S. aid cut
• State workers protest under Dixon Arch
• Man's penis cut off, put through garbage disposal
• Commission talks partnership with Tourism Board
• Group aims to help shops become accessible
• Police trying to find out how man was injured
• 'We're glad to be here'
• GOP leader to Obama: Go it alone
• Sterling corn boil fundraiser July 21
• New top dog
• Sheley: Move up the trials
• Topinka launches pet adoption program
• Gov. Quinn signs cancer-related legislation
• Jail concerned about health company
• Wage freeze a possibility
• Left without power
• Walnut approves more limited setbacks
• IN BRIEF Crosby Road closing Monday
• Former Rock Falls woman's dying wish comes true
• Ford endorses ban on hand-held phone use while driving
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Friday is deadline for reporting crop acres
• Panel to look at wind farm rules
• Computer-buying process 'crazy'
• Congressmen still waiting for debt ceiling proposal they would support
• 800,000 without power at height of Illinois storm
• New allegations besiege Murdoch media empire
• AMBOY Vendors needed for annual craft show
• Debt talks yield little; Obama rules out stopgap
• Records suggest Champaign County auditor rarely at office
• All invited to Manahan home dedication
• Quinn signs bills promoting electric vehicles
• Taxpayers will have to pay more than $128,000
• Still picking up the pieces
• Historic effort controversial
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Sterling rural district meeting on budget
• McDonald's development progressing
• Voters to weigh in on turbine ban
• Payroll up despite fewer workers
• Fundraiser: Exelon may be 'embarrassed'
• Administration suspends military aid to Pakistan
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Shuttle’s last hookup full of emotion
• Old farm equipment sought for display
• Syrian leader calls for transition to democracy
• No agreement yet; talks resume today
• For Quinn, casino expansion a house of cards
• Businesses to testify on hoped-for changes
• Lincoln Buy-Way sale event
• Fundraiser to help mission trip to Africa
• Sauk Valley Community College undergoes evaluation
• Jeff Lovett to present program on the Civil War
• Pork chop dinner drive-thru
• Utility best way to ease flooding?
• Growing gardens raise awareness about better nutrition
• Franklin Grove Library's summer reading program in July
• Immunization Clinic planned at MCH
• Byron Forest Preserve hosts fun events during July
• The Next Picture Show holds Swinging 4 the Arts
• SVCC to host “Make it Pay, Financial Aid Day”
• Depot Days parade entries sought
• Senior center plans trips and activities during summer
• University of Illinois Extension offers tips on preventing West Nile Virus
• Sterling teen elected to comptroller at Boys State
• Bake sale to support Fulton's library
• Student of the Month: Jack Hanlon
• Learn the warning signs of Alzheimer's
• Police: Michigan shootings suspect commits suicide
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• 4 more arrested in Galesburg shooting death
• Officials got wrong info on state grant
• Hog roast Saturday to benefit Honor Flight
• NICIL Office moving to Sterling, will reopen Monday
• Confession should be tossed, attorney will argue
• Senators propose immediate end to ethanol credit
• Shaken baby defendant wants statements tossed
• Most Morrison businesses not handicapped-parking compliant
• Dixon man sentenced to prison for business burglaries
• Sentencing postponed in child porn case
• New ordinance sets fines
• Traffic stop leads to meth arrest
• History walks part of summer fun
• IDOT to upgrade Miller/Locust intersection
• Spoken 4 Quartet to sing in Fulton
• Students enjoy hands-on activities at De Immigrant
• What's going on
• Committee planning meeting on wind farm rules
• Dueling pianos, comics and improv to raise money
• Annual cookout expands
• Church to have ice cream social Sunday
• Push for Memorial Pool renovation still afloat
• New priest assigned to Sacred Heart Church
• Men’s club invites all to 40th annual pig roast
• Rock Falls leery of consolidating
• Barbecue planned to help fight multiple sclerosis
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• NIU's annual report captures financial snapshot
• Boland says he will make decision in 6 to 8 weeks
• Rock Falls man arraigned in child porn case
• Is county’s locked door a deterrent?
• Rockford aldermen told to brace for $4M shortfall
• Ogle officials want jail inmate death suit dropped
• Attorney for ex-Ill. Gov. Ryan vows to 'fight on'
• Rock Falls man arraigned in child solicitation case
• Auto industry, seeing new life, is on hiring spree
• Cole Hall renovations more than halfway done
• Quinn aide: Pay superintendents from local tax
• Obama takes on 'tweeters' in Twitter town hall
• Auto industry, seeing new life, is on hiring spree
• Critics say NASA ignoring its 'backup plan' rule
• Strauss-Kahn lawyer: Meeting with NY DA productive
• Casey Anthony could go free after murder acquittal
• DNA testing delays cases in assaults on Texas girl
• Court orders immediate halt to gay military ban
• South Korea's Pyeongchang awarded 2018 Winter Olympics
• Fort Hood shooting suspect will face death penalty
• Chicago may start allowing gun ranges
• Illinois drops writing from standardized exam
• Rockford aldermen told to brace for $4M shortfall
• GOP pushes back on effort to limit kids' food ads
• Broken power line damages computers
• Dixon business needs your vote
• Whiteside may go in debt for roads
• Miller dies after fall from windmill
• Police still looking for Sterling shooting suspect
• Bond set at $1 million for accused attacker
• City tries to cuts costs of well project
• Casey Anthony cleared of murdering young daughter
• Cities, counties make do
• City giving low street repair bid the once-over
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Subway still coming to town
• City considers showing free movies
• No arrests yet in armed robbery attempt
• Board appoints new colleague
• Boland may run for Congress
• Sterling man charged with hitting, dragging woman
• Two injured in car, motorcycle crash
• Park District to hire teens using grant
• Flood surge raises fears of Mont. oil spill spread
• Blago lawyers take possible step toward appeal
• Pastors protest Illinois cut to burials for poor
• GOP uses budget, other tools to sap financial law
• Borrowers sue over apparent loan mod mishaps
• Peoria fire leaves 8 people without homes
• Storms may wash out last space shuttle launch
• State treasurer to offer bank vault tours
• The man who hunted Osama bin Laden
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• NIU Pilot program to help students stretch aid dollars
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Chavez's future uncertain after cancer surgery
• Fire at elderly housing unit hospitalizes 2
• $3M bail for man charged in 1957 death of girl
• Jury ends 1st day without verdict on Casey Anthony
• Strauss-Kahn faces new sexual assault complaint
• Couple stabbed; suspect caught
• Clinton man's creation turns heads
• Cleaning up after festival-goers
• Group sues to stop wind farm
• Barn destroyed by fire; no injuries
• Municipal band to perform Thursday at Page Park
• 'All the support in the world'
• Final honor for longtime soldier
• Death, taxes and antifreeze
• Open for Business: The Carpet House Inc.
• Business Comings and Goings
• Chana United Methodist Church hosts vacation Bible school
• It's construction season at schools
• Power and control
• Eureka College awards inaugural SVCC Reagan transfer scholarship
• Dixon library's reading program continues
• Newman's April Student of the Month
• Wood carving classes at Rock River Center
• Sterling church offering free July 4 event
• Charter fishing trip planned
• Public libraries receive new equipment
• Foster grandparents are recognized and appreciated
• Red Cross schedules blood drives
• Doctor offers free foot screening
• Foot Care Clinics at Whiteside Health Deparment
• Community worship at Petunia Festival
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• 2 College News
• Bureau Valley grad receives Shelter Insurance scholarship
• Firefighters battle blaze at RF apartment
• Two wanted for attempted armed robbery
• Sterling Police look for Chicago man in shooting
• Illinois' death row officially shuts down
• Galesburg shooting kills 1 man
• Public invited to send off 1644th Transportation unit
• Minn. braces for government shutdown over taxes
• Today's Petunia Festival schedule
• Colbert gets conditional OK on campaign finance
• Sweltering temperatures expected
• Recess canceled; Senate to work next week on debt
• Hultgren, Schilling discuss small business
• Police still investigating crash that killed woman
• Crews battle NM fire, which pushes into canyon
• Mineral man killed in lawn mower accident
• Drone strikes show Pakistan still cooperating with U.S.
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Ride the rails
• Casey Anthony won't testify; defense rests case
• Dixon Senior Center offers Zumba
• FBI documents reveal details of Rostenkowski investigation in the '90s
• ‘This is America,’ Schilling says
• Geithner says he'll stay for 'foreseeable future'
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Rock Falls man to be arraigned in porn case
• What's going on
• Nelson power plant still in works
• Grand jury to consider Nelson crash
• New events help keep the bloom on
• State likely to see fierce battle over gun control
• Obama: Deficit deal must end tax breaks for wealthy
• Egyptian protesters demanding brutality trials continue to clash with police
• Afghan attack left mass of bodies at luxury hotel
• India on verge of eradicating polio
• Donaldson Co. testing its water pumps
• Reagan speech to be re-enacted in Mount Morris
• Obama: A lot of the 'fuss' over Libya is politics
• Airplane deployed to monitor air over NM fire
• 4 Illinois communities file census challenges
• Finding the fireworks – and other Fourth of July weekend fun
• Ice cream social next week in Oregon
• Nuts for 30 years
• Reminder: Child sex offenders banned from parks
• Merrill fifth-grader a reading machine
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Insiders got early notice of college savings deal
• Airline ad spins off Blagojevich conviction
• Quinn signs bill to create muskrat trapping season
• Brother of '48 murder victim demands $1.5 million
• Obama visits Bettendorf
• Trial set for 28-year-old Dixon man
• Old church to be razed, rebuilt
• Ex-Ill. Gov. George Ryan's wife dies at age 76
• Blagojevich mess will linger for years in Illinois
• Developer hired to create downtown plan
• P-L-T District unsure when projects will start
• More than 1,000 seek Bass Pro jobs in E. Peoria
• Comments sought for accreditation process
• Spring buying boosts home prices in 13 US cities
• 'It's always going to be a part of me'
• Gov. Pat Quinn signs workers' compensation reform
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Mayor of Braidwood dies after 3 months in office
• Board will consider District 2 appointee
• Discovery camp planned at forest preserve
• Faulty sprinkler displaces tenants
• Ill. teen arrested in mother's stabbing death
• New bereavement support group forms
• Blagojevich's $65K state pension now in jeopardy
• Attorney: Ex-Ill. Gov. Ryan with wife before she died
• Ex-Ill. gov's wife remembered as generous, loving
• Gov. Pat Quinn signs workers' compensation reform
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• City not likely to remove nuisance tree
• Lincoln-Manahan Home ready to open
• Wildfire shuts Los Alamos lab, forces evacuations
• Jury convicts former Illinois governor
• Council urged to demolish buildings
• Voters give Obama lowest rating yet on economy
• Bachmann opens 2012 presidential run in Iowa
• Ex-Gov. Ryan's wife hospitalized, on respirator
• US is expected to stay third most populous nation, census report shows
• Exhumed skull not hers, pair say
• Justices strike down ban on sales of violent video games to minors
• Quinn signs seat-belt measure into law
• Other Illinois politicians who faced legal troubles
• 8-year-old boy drowns at Illinois state park
• Let's Feed Our Children nears 10,000 lunches
• Local politicians think justice has been served
• Fulton couple looking to rebuild
• Another Petunia Festival event canceled
• Sen. Kirk: Nobody above the law
• Fitzgerald calls Blagojevich verdict 'bittersweet'
• 48-year mayor: Voters must share blame for Blago
• Quotes about verdict in Blagojevich retrial
• Los Alamos evacuation ordered because of wildfire
• Blago jury: Evidence on Senate seat was most clear
• Blagojevich says he didn't let people down
• Experts: Blago's testimony at retrial hurt him
• Judge restricts Blagojevich's travel
• Ill. Senate leaders: Move ahead after Blagojevich
• Topinka: Blagojevich behavior 'reprehensible'
• List of charges, verdicts against Blagojevich
• A timeline of Blagojevich's career, legal battles
• Ill. GOP: Blagojevich verdict closes chapter
• Notable quotes from Blagojevich's retrial
• Task force: Restoring sediment key to Gulf revival
• Casey Anthony found competent, trial resumes
• Elderly woman has to remove diaper for pat-down
• White House: 'Significant' deal on debt possible
• White House considers big boost to fuel economy
• Addressing job creation, spending and taxes
• P&P moving to Sterling
• Getting dirty at the Tampico Days festival
• Lack of confidence could bankrupt prepaid tuition
• A real life history lesson
• BYRON Appointments needed for free medical, dental care
• City may demolish dilapidated houses
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Exelon says it didn’t pledge money
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• NIU Officials looking for comments on Vision 2020 reports
• Health officials encourage testing for HIV
• State borrowing money designated for charities
• ComEd may donate land for whitewater park
• Democrats share ideas at brunch
• 200 clergy defy church on same-sex unions
• Peoria considers local marijuana ordinance
• NYC parade to get boost from same-sex milestone
• Libyan rebels claim advances in western mountains
• Big crowds gather at Chicago Gay Pride parade
• Open for Business: Marceile's
• Business Notebook: Dixon business celebrates 25th anniversary
• Dixon Methodists offering craft items, more Sept. 10
• Declaration of Independence to be read July 4 in Franklin Grove
• Mary Kay Bohms, 30, teaches seventh-grade
• Byron Museum announces quilt show registration
• Welcoming the Bear Cub
• First Lutheran church hosts sandwich supper
• Rock Falls First Christian Church gets new minister
• Hultgren accepting applications for fall interns
• Ninth annual walk/fun run planned
• Exelon Nuclear’s Byron Generating Station awards scholarships
• Student of the Month: Kyle Mason
• Thomson Causeway Recreation Area remains closed until Aug. 1
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Sauk Valley Community College hosts College for Kids
• Polo seniors create barn quilts
• ILETSB director visits region
• 25 school
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Senators demand congressional probe on nuke safety
• 'Once-in-a-lifetime' chance on riverfront
• Man contends jail denied him HIV drugs
• Dixon parents face abuse charges
• WHITESIDE COUNTY Policy inconsistent with state law
• Applicants sought for Ogle County mental health board
• Officer: Risk in a speedy withdrawal
• 'One anniversary she'll never forget'
• US and others plan biggest release of reserve oil
• Residents still fighting development
• Adult kickball tournament registration due Saturday
• Horsing around in Chicago
• Trip to Field Museum planned
• Ogle County organizations eligible for grants
• Outdoor worship service to feature singer
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Commission sends on wind ordinance
• Local jobless rates lowest since '08
• Schilling, others invite president to arsenal
• Dixon woman charged with battery to a child
• WHITESIDE COUNTY RF man arraigned Wednesday in armed robbery case
• Rock Falls girl injured Wednesday in accident
• Barth bringing old-time medicine to Pretzel Festival
• Savings, but no political willpower
• Oregon Trail Days feature Wild West Show
• Consultant suggests Riverdale dissolve
• Tampico Days Schedule
• Senator wants to ask questions of school appointee
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Henson to take part in Lanark's Old Settlers Days
• STERLING Rock Falls man charged with having child pornography
• Principal leaving for Newman
• DIXON Alzheimer's walk gets new name
• Wind debate returning
• Showtime: Dixon band battle-tested
• Late Night Cabarets Fridays in Princeton
• Donor program, KSB efforts lauded
• AG: Items on agendas a must
• Guest conductor for Municipal Band
• Felix Adler festival Saturday in Clinton
• Pay on the agenda as lawmakers return to work
• More evidence turned over to Curl's attorney
• Blagojevich jury ends 7th day of deliberations
• Sterling woman charged with theft, burglary
• Police still recovering from crash
• Wine-tasting benefit planned at Dixon church
• Accident survivor, author to speak
• Sterling man pleads guilty to stolen car charge in DeKalb County
• Council adopts changes to city administrator job
• Riverbank cleanup rescheduled for Saturday
• Board excludes prisoners
• Control over computer purchases debated
• Offender used library computer, police say
• Two charged with drug offenses in Sterling
• JPMorgan to pay $153.6M to settle fraud charges
• Legislatures meet for roundup
• Police close case in murder-suicide
• Morris carves out satisfying finale to career
• Walgreen says it will split with Express Scripts
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• US nuke regulators weaken safety rules
• Blagojevich jurors end 6th day of delibera
• Internet minders approve big rise in domain names
• Plant expansion announced
• Coroner says leg belongs to missing Illinois woman
• Under deal, Motorola Mobility could fire hundreds
• Council to adopt changes to administrator's job description
• Funding change secures fire truck
• Viering returns to City Council
• High court bars mass sex bias case vs. Wal-Mart
• Sen. Kirk proposing plan to up private funding
• Mexican journalist who covered drug violence is slain along with his family
• Dixon woman injured in crash
• Libya says NATO airstrike kills 15 west of capital
• Names released in traffic fatalities
• FTC probe of gasoline prices has eye on refiners
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• FDA to issue new graphic cigarette warning labels
• US troops coming home? Obama to say on Wednesday
• Rep. Anthony Weiner makes resignation official
• Supreme Court limits Wal-Mart sex bias case
• No action from Obama on guns
• Obama wants big 2012 campaign map, GOP wants small
• Blagojevich jurors to deliberate for 6th day
• US nuke regulators weaken safety rules
• Bad time to take the EDGE off?
• Honor Flight fundraiser planned in Morrison
• Fulton's annual bridal walk set for Thursday
• Long-term care insurance seminar at Pinecrest
• NATO airstrike probably killed 9 in Tripoli
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Winehouse cancels part of 12-date tour
• Levees in northern Missouri breached KANSA
• FBI searching for weight loss doctor CHICA
• Governor to try again to exclude some state workers from unions
• Some Methodist clergy defy gay marriage ban
• Tentative schedule released for Reagan Trail Days
• HEALTH CARE Doctors, hospitals, poor to feel budget pain
• Families turn out for community block party
• Shots fired near Wallace Park
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Morrison having community cleanup day Saturday
• Not taking retirement sitting down
• Open for Business: Sublette Mechanical Inc.
• Make Teal Real fighting ovarian cancer
• Millers get new training manual
• Weigle earns accreditation
• Schools receive grants from Whiteside County SWCD
• CGH donates defibrillator to Morrison Sports Complex
• Tampico Lions serving fish fry June 24, 25
• Secondwind Entertainers perform at Rock River Center
• KSB doctors serve in the Philippines
• Severns Summer Literacy Grant awarded to Fulton library
• Student of the Month: Abby Lobdell
• Red Cross disaster training for health care providers
• Student photography contest offered, cash prizes to be awarded
• Carroll County band camp June 20-24
• Dixon church offers nutrition presentation
• Sauk Valley Tea Party meets
• Attorney advocates for the disabled
• Local volunteers join Girl Scouts
• Kids Fishing Derby set for June 26
• Elks sponsor diagnostic clinie
• RF man pleads guilty to burglarizing Harmon fire station
• Dixon man charged in Rock Falls sexual assault
• Attorney asks for more time on motion in murder case
• Weather agency can't confirm tornado
• Midsommar celebrations features music, maypole
• Keeping Xavier's legacy alive
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Treasurer changes stance on issue
• Case delayed in Dixon sex abuse case
• Dixon man gets jail, probation on drug charge
• A show of support by the truckload
• County offices feeling budget pain
• Two fields in their dreams
• Senate votes to repeal ethanol tax credits
• Gov. Pat Quinn warns of construction shutdown
• Ottawa agency to take over Rockford foster cases
• Blagojevich jury asks for clarity on instructions
• Weiner resigns in wake of sexting scandal
• Law: No more politician monikers on state signs
• Illinois unemployment climbs in May to 8.9 percent
• Illinois home foreclosures up 5 percent in May
• Chicago's huge camera surveillance system to grow
• Seats from historic DeKalb theater for sale
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Greek riots, political chaos hammer markets
• Polo festival opens with fireworks tonight
• Bivins won’t have to run against colleague
• Sidewalk painting event part of Fields Project events
• Park district delays TIF vote
• Ogle County farmers host families for artists
• Parents of child injured by ferret are charged
• Spring weather was one for the books
• Area wineries to be showcased at Galena festival
• Entertainment announced for ByronFest
• Dixon: Redraw can exclude inmates
• Sheley staying put until trial
• Fulton teacher pleads not guilty to having sex with student
• Reagan school has plan to pass
• Board likely to stay same size
• Sex offender arrested for trying to solicit child
• Moose hog roast, beer garden in Mount Morris
• Knights of Columbus to host dinner, magician show
• Snapshots of mill history
• Tax breaks to end for 100 firms
• Judge to OK disabilities lawsuit settlement
• Building collapses in downtown Freeport
• Blagojevich jury in 4th day of deliberations
• Congress opens hearings on violent Islam in prison
• Experts: Weiner's behavior similar to addicts'
• Rockton teen drowns at state park lake
• Civil War flag is on display in Springfield
• Illinois officials urging testing for radon
• Arizona wildfire near biggest in state's history
• Most Illinois drinking water meets standards
• Bankruptcy court rules against gay-marriage ban
• New rules to cut confusion on sunscreen claims
• Lemons pleads to lesser charge
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Riverfront finances not great
• Hiring freeze to stay in place
• Pro-concealed carry resolution dies
• City water, sewer rates to increase
• Charges not likely in Clinton bicyclist’s death
• City allows electric fence that won’t be accessible to public
• Bernanke urges GOP to support raising debt ceiling
• Jacobs says he has regrets over confrontation
• Motorola Solutions announces 400 Chicago jobs
• Senate sidetracks move to repeal ethanol credit
• One officer retiring, another promoted in Sterling
• A temporary fix to state workers' health plan confusion
• Rockford call center to add 400 new jobs
• Park district to talk about TIF
• Private wells must move to city water
• Cyclist named in fatal accident in Fulton
• Lemons pleads guilty to reduced murder charge
• Jacobs speaks out on confrontation
• Boehner adds to calls for Weiner resignation
• Ash plume halts flights to another Australia city
• Wholesale prices rise at slowest pace in 10 months
• Obama visits Puerto Rico with eye on 2012 election
• Crews racing floodwaters to build up Iowa levee
• Bradley awarded grant for water-quality project
• Rockford call center to add 400 new jobs
• Bachmann brings flair, tea party clout to GOP race
• Illinois comptroller announces new website
• New nonstop service to Panama arriving at O'Hare
• Parents should think of fire safety in kids' dorms
• Quinn signs law making it easier to fire teachers
• City closes budget gap, but union pacts loom
• Council votes for bike trail
• Annual RibFest returns Saturday to Dixon
• DIXON City's budget gap closed, for now
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Republicans assail Obama in opening big debate
• Dixon Elks serving Father's Day breakfast
• New wheels for Gypsie
• Free kite-flying set for Sunday at SVCC
• Street project still on track
• Mabley families anxious
• Fulton bicyclist killed Monday in accident
• Board map may be redrawn
• Sterling City Council members discuss stormwater utility fee
• Sterling Fire Department to receive $1,500 from firefighter grant program
• POLO – Polo Town and Country Days' 5K fun
• WWII bomber that crashed underwent maintenance over weekend
• Fitness exam request dropped in Josh Sheley case
• AG rejects district’s arguments
• Fulton cyclist killed Monday in accident
• Giffords' photos give first look at recovery
• Obama weighs scale of Afghanistan withdrawal
• Guinness proclaims Filipino teenager to be world's shortest man
• City still looking at bike trail
• No firm timeline for BioPro
• Mud volleyball tournament in Dixon delayed until Aug. 13
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Always on watch
• GOP candidates mix it up on eve of N.H. debate
• Gambling package hinges on Quinn decision
• Weiner to take short leave as calls for resignation grow
• Neighborhood Watch meeting at Propheter Park
• Investigation into farmer's death continues
• Lee County Relay for Life raises $82,000
• Zipper art classes offered at Rock River Center
• A proper sendoff before deployment
• Father's Day activities planned in Oregon
• Registration for golf outing due June 20
• Pegasus Riders fundraiser set for Saturday
• Gradual closure of National planned
• Team Underwires prepare for events
• Franklin Grove library to kick off summer programs
• Let Freedom Ring to host craft faire event
• Mount Morris artist replicates courthouse painting
• SVCC program helps Hispanic/Latino families
• Student wins Congressional Art Competition
• Depression-era furniture on display through June 30 in Fulton
• Group to meet for lunch
• Paper and others not compliant
• Student of the Month: Vicki Jones
• Hospice joins birdies for charity
• Know Your Neighbor
• Goodies available at CGH fundraiser
• Coloma Park District summer programs begin
• Index shows ag companies fare well in hard economy
• Bloodmobiles stopping at several area sites
• Lee County accepting entries
• Full-moon walk set for June 15 in Byron
• Earthquakes in Illinois
• Sycamore lawyer, 25, faces 3 prostitution charges
• Alaska releases Sarah Palin's emails
• Quinn praises United for bringing jobs to Chicago
• 4 Hispanic teens charged in Moline hate crime
• Former Illinois deputy arrested on sex abuse charges
• Jet from miracle splashdown arrives at NC museum
• Amtrak studying Wi-Fi for Illinois trains
• Tractor rollover kills rural Chadwick man
• A love of languages: Teaching job takes EIU grad abroad
• Jorgensen new hospital CEO
• Attempted murder charge dropped against Rochelle woman
• Chicago-area man returns bag with $17K in cash
• CME move threat puts focus on unpopular tax hike
• Poppy day Saturday in Sterling
• Benefit set Sunday for girl fighting pneumonia
• Farm market program set for Monday
• City, engineers to discuss drainage issues
• Man plans canoeing adventure
• WingFest Part 2 in Nelson
• Key regulator: Speculators swamping oil, grain markets
• Iowa town features John Wayne's birthplace
• Survivors support group to meet in Iowa
• Staff wins 9 journalism awards
• Thousands miss out on Ill. college savings offer
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Hiring freeze may end
• Dissent within OPEC erodes cartel's power
• WHITESIDE COUNTY Sheriff seeks to replace old squad cars
• Gingrich campaign in tatters as top aides resign
• Touch-a-Truck coming Saturday to Sterling
• Jacobs gets Democrats' support
• Florida drought wilts crops, sparks wildfires
• Alabama governor signs tough illegal immigration law
• Chicago-area man returns bag with $17K in cash
• Embattled Rep. Weiner insists he won't resign
• Thousands miss out on Illinois college savings offer
• Romney defends himself in Mich. over auto bailout
• Planning for 'Illiana Corridor' begins
• Illinois Supreme Court hopes to modernize procedures
• Bill Brady seeks another term in Illinois Senate
• $1,150,000 headed to county
• Mounted Patrol seeks riders for annual benefit
• Annual musical extravaganza set for July 15-16
• Tickets available for Council on Aging event
• Man amazed by deaf-blind brother
• Tickets available for Council on Aging event
• Battle of the Bands participants sought
• Cancer survivor’s lesson: Be proactive
• New K-9 cop coming
• Merchants beat bankers in Senate debit card vote
• Durbin talks to defense nominee about Rock Island
• Madigan reviewing troubled college savings program
• Lightning strike diverts flight to Rockford
• US appeals court hears health care law arguments
• Stocks waver; oil spike lifts energy companies
• Illinois landfill, haulers cited for EPA violations
• Illinois ready for 2nd day of sweltering heat
• OPEC leaves output on hold, causing oil price jump
• Lipinski denies asking Jackson for cash for Blago
• Bin Laden deputy issues eulogy for al-Qaida chief
• Weiner latest NY lawmaker caught in sex scandal
• Winery draws visitors off beaten path
• Search for Indiana student reminiscent of 2000 case
• Study: Minority youth have big media appetite
• Durbin talks to defense nominee about Rock Island
• City identifies summer street repaving projects
• Pawlenty econ plan rooted in bullish 5% growth
• Blagojevich concludes testimony in corruption retrial
• ACLU: Racial disparities in state police searches
• Bernanke: Economy slowing but faster growth ahead
• Company vows to be good neighbor
• Recycling event needs volunteers
• Chicago man sentenced to 8 years in Lee County case
• Daytime burglars still at large
• Canton man dragged under mobile home
• Bomb threat evacuates high school
• Prolonged detour prompts request for travel expenses
• No criminal charges against Jacobs
• Firefighter enters not guilty plea
• Johnsons receive replacement award
• Council approves administrator job description
• Noncertified employees getting a raise
• Sterling library gets $26,000 state grant
• Illinois takes slow approach on health exchange
• Axelrod: Obama 'calm' before bin Laden mission
• Illinois takes slow approach on health exchange
• Insurer sues state over new health contracts
• Catholic group sues state over gay adoptions issue
• Yep, Illinois forecasts of big cicada hatch prove true
• Blagojevich gets more concise on cross-examination
• Pawlenty: Obama satisfied with 2nd-rate US economy
• Obama adviser critical of Pawlenty
• Large Ariz. wildfire sends haze into other states
• Va. inmate sues after gruesome tries at sex change
• Canton man killed on I-39 while fixing vehicle
• New bike route signs up
• Silver lining to inflation: Social Security checks likely to grow
• Transit service plans new building
• Attack kills 120 Syrian forces; crackdown feared
• No arrests yet in apparent prank hostage phone call
• Prosecutor tries to use Blago's words against him
• Council to consider city job description
• Rocket attack kills 5 U.S. soldiers in Iraq
• Further McDelays in Morrison
• No state hearing on M&D’s liquor violation
• Poker run to benefit veterans charities
• Prosecutors want Sheley back in Knox County Jail
• Apple unveils iCloud
• Reception planned Sunday for retiring St. Andrew principal
• Sterling man charged with stealing from cars
• Santorum joins GOP race for president
• Weiner admits he sent lewd picture; won't quit
• WH: US troop cuts in Afghanistan will be 'real'
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Quinn calls lawmakers back to Springfield
• Springfield using buildings as cooling centers
• Weiner admits he sent lewd picture; won't quit
• Quinn calls lawmakers back to Springfield
• Less than half of Rockford grads enroll in college
• Quinn defends appointing ex-legislator to board
• Blagojevich faces more questions from prosecutor
• 5 US soldiers killed in Baghdad rocket attack
• International mission to measure saltiness of sea
• Galesburg man remembers D-Day
• Court call
• Defense highlights title game
• Avanti recalling some mozzarella products
• State senator says he'll run in 17th District
• Another fire at Cimco
• Blood donors can win Orlando trip
• Benefit set cancer patient
• Walkers have their reasons for taking part
• Council to vote on purchasing new dump truck
• A colorful community: Volunteers plant thousands of petunias
• ‘Hard work’ pays off for grads
• Fillies do it, win state softball title
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Sterling still into steel
• Activist: Many wind farms planned for Lee County
• Summer programs available for kids
• Sauk instructor college's outstanding alumnus for 2011
• Selling a piece of history in Tampico
• March Hall of Fame students announced at Dixon High
• Office furniture to be sold
• St. Jude Walk
• Blues Hawks to perform June 12 at Byron forest preserve
• Student of the Month: Kayla McCawley
• Cotton Patch Gospel raises funds for Pinecrest Manor
• Ogle hospice starting new support group June 10
• Eastman dancears present 'Life is a Celebration'
• VOP seeks funds for camp
• DHS graduate finalist in history category for national book award
• Pioneer agent donates to local FFA chapter
• Foot care clinic to be held in Fulton
• Community encouraged to give blood for World Blood Donor Day
• Mental illness classes offered to families
• Shooting call determined a hoax
• AP Source: Goldman Sachs subpoenaed
• Deputies looking for daytime burglars
• Dixon man gets prison time for business burglaries
• It's tax time, finally, in Lee County
• Trust breeds success through Project VITAL
• Donate diapers to tornado victims
• Proposed budget hits human services, schools
• Okla. company recalls chicken, ham products
• Your Weekend Top 5
• It's up, up and away in Galena
• Money being raised for WWII plaque
• Alleged Senate brawler called emotional
• Polo church says goodbye to its pastor
• A look back at the 97th General Assembly
• Byron forest district hosts fishing at dawn
• Sauk Commons 'flooded with leases'
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Half-million-dollar bond set for suspect
• Congressman Manzullo's wife recovering after heart attack
• Forecast: On-again, off-again economy could last for years
• Aurora police searching SUV for clues
• Sheley's trial date moved to Aug. 29
• Suspect friend of swimmer
• What's Going On
• Romney to make it official today, in divided New Hampshire
• Holder moves to correct sentencing disparities between crack, cocaine offenders
• Apparent tornado tears through Springfield, Mass.
• Obama, Dems hoping to raise $60M by late June
• Remodeling of NIU lecture hall nearly half done
• Senator says Jacobs hit him in chest
• 18-year-old makes plea deal, gets probation
• Dixon differs with Lee County on agenda items
• Local spellers not among the semifinalists
• USDA steps up to the plate, ditches pyramid scheme
• Quinn's wins, losses raise questions of influence
• Page Park riverbank cleanup June 25
• Little farmers invited to Centennial Park
• Princeton theater offers a full slate of plays, plus cabarets
• Rep. Weiner says he didn't send racy Twitter photo, but won't say if it's of him
• Nerves fray as Blago addresses 'golden' quote
• Council to vote again on squad cars
• Park district registration under way in Rock Falls
• Donations needed for Red Cross fundraiser
• Divers find key to murder, police chief says
• Sports physicals available
• Teacher admits to sex with woman
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Sterling High cheerleading tryouts next week
• Dog show a fundraiser for Granny Rose
• No overall pay hikes for teachers
• Consumer confidence falls unexpectedly in May
• Homebuyers education course in Oregon
• Reservations due for SHS Class of ’58 picnic
• Ex-school board member charged with misdemeanor
• Arraignment set for teacher accused of sex with student
• Will others see drop in bills?
• Whiteside County Relay For Life this weekend
• Some in GOP oppose cutting board
• Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogenic
• 9 days after tornado, rebuilding begins in Joplin
• Tornado relief collections going through Friday
• Rock Falls graduates appreciate opportunities, prepare for new course in life
• Longtime conservative broadcaster dies
• Sterling seniors graduate
• Copter’s crew back together in Dixon
• New state districts leave GOP frustrated
• United Way set to serve free lunches again
• North to speak at 9/11 memorial
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• $2.7 billion cut from Quinn’s planMeasure
• Sell unwanted gold, silver at CGH auxiliary fundraiser
• House OKs new congressional map
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Stronger rules on concussions OK’d
• House OKs funding for immigrant children
• House votes to add 5 casinos
• Major overhaul of workers compensation system failed
• A day for honoring Sauk Valley veterans
• Dixon native earns two medals
• Hultgren aides available Wednesday
• Bereavement support group meets in Oregon
• Habitat for Humanity sixth largest homebuilder
• Home of Hope seeking votes for Livestrong campaign
• Winners announced in Reagan art contest
• Methodist church to have annual luncheon
• Forest preserve offers hunting course
• Sterling churches receive grant to explore arts and worship
• Carroll County students receive scholarships
• Mount Morris murder-mystery author to sign books
• First-grade class gets Bushel of Books
• Whiteside, Lee residents needed to walk for healthier babies
• Healthier families, calmer classrooms focus of programs
• SHS March Student of the Month: Trevor Hall
• Adventure Club starts in June
• Katie Nauman, 18, of Amboy, is Amboy High
• Four-state dairy conference June 8-9 in Dubuque
• Memorial poker run to benefit food pantries
• Reagan Boyhood Home to sell treats for scholarship
• Clinton casino, Legionnaires selling bricks to honor servicemen
• Southside School band presents spring soncert
• City kids get a taste of rural life
• Memorial Day Events
• Sauk Valley jobless rates take sharp drop in April
• Like father, like son
• Ill. AG says utilities asking for too much
• High school teacher accused of having sex with student
• Ill. House panel OKs government pension cuts
• 12 possible tornadoes reported in Illinois storms
• First person on Joplin missing list found alive
• Blagojevich takes stand, tries to show his softer side
• Outside groups may edge parties in key races
• Registration due for Rock River canoe trip
• Pirates head to Legoland Discovery Center
• Board may stay the same size
• Proposed recreational trail may not happen
• District to seek bids for high school
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Reagan dance raises more than $5,000
• Blood drive to honor area man
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Missing man's body found near Lyndon
• Alzheimer's Association chief medical officer to speak Wednesday
• Former street preacher gets life in Smart case
• Reservations required for symphony fundraiser
• Personnel committee to discuss city administrator job description
• Reagan car/motorcycle show coming to the boyhood home
• What's going on
• Church set to honor founders
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Judge: Ariz. shooting suspect mentally incompetent
• Senators tell VA to reduce veteran suicides
• Local search area narrows
• Search for missing man comes up empty
• Tornadoes! Floods! Droughts! Scientists say it's global warming
• States expand probe of foreclosure processes
• Sterling woman injured in car accident Tuesday
• Russian singing quintet coming to St. Luke's
• Dance recital at Woodlawn
• Newt's bill a burden for gala
• Rock Falls teen pleads guilty to Walmart burglary
• Local search area for missing boy narrows
• Grant allows city to devise economic plan
• House committee OKs new legislative districts
• A race to find survivors before more storms arrive
• Mayor Lee undergoes angioplasty
• No sign yet of missing swimmer
• Isaacman sentenced to 10 years
• Not a new charge against Seeberg
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Bypass means in-town traffic would drop by half
• 90 percent of Illinois' corn fields are planted
• FBI divers search for evidence in 15-month-old case
• Council shears $140,000 from budget deficit
• Regulators OK higher rates for ComEd customers
• Artesian Place to stay closed until end of June
• Tornado wrecks shed in Polo
• Bond set at $1 million for man police say sold cocaine
• More details emerge in fatal shootings
• PFLAG plans garage sale on Saturday
• Autopsies to be done today
• New administrator: Sterling, Rock Falls in ‘separate orbits’
• River search to resume today for Rock Falls man
• Local fields to be part of new state study
• Consolidation not a 'viable option'
• Dixon High seniors honored at banquet
• A monument to them
• Ster-Lynn Estates may get new owner
• P-L-T approves construction bids
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Radio host who predicted End of Days to speak
• Shooter's ex-girlfriend dies
• Death toll climbs to 116
• Volunteers to power wash Memorial Arch today
• Search for 6-year-old boy may return to Sauk Valley
• Two men sought for knocking off Sterling Casey's
• Hultgren says Obama is 'backtracking' on original Israeli stance
• GE Capital to add 1,000 jobs in Chicago
• OSHA issues 33 notices to Chicago-area VA center
• Power being restored in Ogle County
• Two wanted in Sterling convenience store robbery
• Police identify missing Rock Falls man
• Republican Pawlenty betting it all on Iowa
• Emanuel ready to testify at Blagojevich trial
• Obama connects with Irish roots
• Baby boomers fueling boom in knee, hip surgeries
• Pakistani troops retake naval base from militants
• Death toll in Missouri rises to 116; 7 rescued
• Triplets graduate from Peoria High
• States' immigration efforts fizzle
• BUSINESS INCENTIVES
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Polo student ready for senior year in Chile
• BOOK DISCUSSION 'Lowell Park' author offers free presentation Tuesday
• IN BRIEF
• Lawmakers almost OK murder registry
• REDISTRICTING
• ROCK FALLS SHOOTINGS Community tries to get back to normal
• CENTENNIAL BALL The Reagan celebration continues
• Man missing after swim in the Rock River
• DIXON MURDER-SUICIDE Two dead in apparent murder-suicide, according to Dixon police
• ROCK FALLS
• Veterans celebrated during Armed Forces Day event
• Couple identified in apparent murder-sucide in Dixon
• Police searching river near Lawrence Park for missing man
• Apparent murder-suicide in Dixon today
• Names of shooting victims released
• Sterling student accepted to Luther College
• Lincoln Highway Association sponsoring flag esay contest
• Dixon and Sterling Girl Scout volunteers receive awards
• Carroll County briefs
• 4-H camp registration still open
• Hit a hole-in-one for hospice
• IDNR promotes area programs, events
• Prophetstown girl named to Angus Association
• SVCC professor receives award from honor society
• SVCC adult education courses start June 7
• Church goes wild for vacation Bible school
• Military
• Farmers tune-up seminar offered
• Student of the Month: Sarah Cesarek
• Polo Evening Women's Club supports soldiers, community
• Carroll County tractor drive planned
• Sterling students to perform at Carnegie Hall
• Forreston Friskies Cloverbuds have project meeting
• 100 volunteers clean up canal
• School has preschool and child care openings
• Man, woman found dead in Rock Falls apartment
• Annual readings at SHS
• Search brought to Sauk Valley
• Setting new boundaries
• Caterpillar CFO: U.S. economy not far from liftoff
• Seeberg's actions draw more criticism
• Cimino sued: Company says man owes more than $12,000
• Rock Falls man charged with aggravated battery
• Dixon man gets prison time
• Illinois April jobless rate falls to 8.7 percent
• Dixon woman sentenced to probation, jail
• In reminder of '90s, LinkedIn has big first day
• Wine, antiques and song thrive in Ottawa
• Blood drive Monday in Polo
• Closure a ‘tragedy for area’
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Board gets merger study update, cuts kindergarten to half days
• Dixon man pleads guilty to possessing nude photos
• Search for missing Aurora boy extends to the Sauk Valley
• Illinoisans get first look at new state Senate map
• Rockford gets $20K grant to improve grazing grass
• Internet tool helps students find books for summer
• St. Andrew principal retiring
• Marker to honor baseball player
• Tentative trial date set for 12-year-old boy
• Commemorative Petunia Festival buttons are here
• A happy end to school year
• Cookout, breakfast this weekend
• Senior center offers Medicare fraud presentation
• General Mills agrees to buy majority stake in Yoplait
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Tech position eliminated by East Coloma board; director not 'fired'
• Walmart hits major milestone
• Mortgage-loan forms to get overhaul
• Sterling man pleads not guilty
• Memorial weekend festival full of activities
• Free Friday concerts start June 3 along the Rock River
• Second Saturdays looking for artists
• Washing Elementary School loses Grampa Les
• 20-year-old pleads not guilty to drug charges
• Motorcycle jamboree coming to Polo
• Entries sought for 20th annual car show
• United Airlines apologizes after accidentally reactivating 9/11 flight numbers
• Judge reprimands Blagojevich defense yet again
• Skull repair to improve Giffords' quality of life
• End of the world? How about a party instead?
• Papers shed light on activist probe
• Miss. flood evacuees spend tedious days in shelter
• High used-car prices make it ideal time to sell
• State budget cuts bring howls of protest at Capitol
• 13-year cicadas expected in Illinois
• Apartment buildings can get funds to go smoke-free
• Report: Illinois pledging more to keep businesses
• Clinton home for former Iraq contractor
• Bill restricts guns to violent offenders
• Board lays off four aides, fires tech director
• Win a bike, dunk a cop Saturday at Challand
• Family of autistic Sterling boy to join fundraiser walk Saturday
• Parking restrictions in effect at Lowden
• Blanton to serve as interim city administrator
• Homebuilders missing out on economic recovery
• Celebrities bid Oprah farewell at Chicago show
• SHS composition readings Thursday
• Workers' pay may be cut
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Family sues Ogle County officials in inmate's death
• Ten years after the mill closed, Sauk Valley still trying to figure out its identity
• School district facing $60,000 deficit
• IMF chief under suicide watch at NYC jail
• Search continues for Aurora 6-year-old
• Sterling man cited for DUI
• Dixon police cite pair for selling without a license
• Senate looks at ways to help post office
• Another Gadhafi regime official defects
• Energy "toll road" may go through Lee, Whiteside counties
• 'Warriors With Words' readings tonight, Thursday
• Debt limit reached, U.S. halts 2 pension investments
• SPOTLIGHT: Family trip highlights organ donation
• Giffords at husband's launch on 2nd last shuttle
• Landslide predicted in nonbinding wind election
• IMF chief jailed without bail in NY hotel-sex case
• Letter carriers collect more than 30,000 pounds
• INFLUENCE GAME: Helmet bill stokes lobbying effort
• Summertime staff layoffs a possibility
• Marker proposed for old courthouse
• Shining Star’s walk yields money, awareness
• Helmet incentive program to follow bike rodeo Saturday
• Dixon City Council votes down new fire truck
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Rahm Emanuel sworn in as Chicago's new mayor
• IN BRIEF Memorial ride for fallen Amboy officer
• Rock Falls City Council meets tonight
• Team Underwires 5K run/walk set for June 18 at SVCC
• Multimillion sports complex advances
• Trump for president? You're out, he tells himself
• Levees, floodwalls require round-the-clock watch
• Brothers to get diplomas 50 years later
• Endeavour soars on 2nd-to-last space shuttle trip
• Morrison hospital health fair Saturday
• Palestinians call mourning period for border dead
• Evacuations in Cajun country after floodgates open
• Olympic marathon champion Wanjiru dies in fall
• Family trip highlights organ donation
• Obama working to rebuild grassroots army
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Council may pick top official
• City meeting on building codes Tuesday
• PFLAG Sauk Valley plans to open site for teens
• Dixon’s Home of Hope needs your vote
• Bureau settles wind farm lawsuit
• Raises, lunch increases on agenda
• Gingrich speaks to Eureka College grads
• Grand opening for PetSmart
• STERLING POLICE 5 teens arrested on wide range of charges
• Fostering creativity in Morrison schools
• Chairman’s first pick declines post
• Ogle zoning board cancels May meeting
• Nurse to offer free mental health tips
• SHS Student of the Month: Carly Willman
• Ag briefs
• 1929 plane crash featured in new museum exhibit
• Producers discuss local foods initiative
• Group to meet at Pines
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Sustainable/organic growers meeting June 20
• Rock Falls HOG Chapter to meet May 16
• Senior Ashley White, 17, of Polo, is Polo
• Morrison Junior High presents spring concert
• Golf outing to benefit Next Picture Show
• Dixon Rotary Club launches membership drive
• Overeaters Anonymous having open meeting
• 'Living with Wildlife' website available
• Whiteside County retired teachers meet
• Retired teachers gather for spring meeting, luncheon
• Plant sale to support Extension programs
• BioPro fueling local economy?
• VA to open Sterling clinic in September
• USDA updating Farmers Market Directory
• Iowa man charged with misdemeanor sex abuse
• Schilling hasn't decided whether to view photos
• Judge orders turnover of safety reports
• Key House panel approves military pay increase
• Board may exclude inmates
• Annual WingFest starts at noon Sunday
• CGH Registration due Monday for bone-strengthening classes
• Public works panel to review wind farm rules
• Earlier HIV therapy protects against virus spread
• Lectronics loses Verizon contract
• White House recommends new cybersecurity laws
• Weekend Top 5
• Job gains should offset higher gas and food prices
• Get on the right track with a day trip to the Windy City
• How bin Laden emailed without being detected by U.S.
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Who Else marks 40 years with Saturday poker run
• Man faces multiple charges
• Props aplenty in Senate show on big oil tax breaks
• Official says board likely didn’t meet standards
• House GOP moves to end money for new body scanners
• People, animals flee Mississippi River flooding
• Obama campaign shows off new headquarters
• Illinois foreclosures fall 16.6 percent in April
• Audit: Some state employees overpaid by $25K, more
• Court: Grain company's insurance documents must be given to OSHA
• Police: Man who tried entering Army base caught
• Props aplenty in Senate show on big oil tax breaks
• Rapper at White House poetry night draws GOP ire
• Mayors tell state to keep hands off tax dollars
• Children learn science at NIU program
• Hispanic women being sought for medical research
• Sen. Durbin urges Sears to stick with Illinois
• What's going on
• Iraqis will discuss whether some U.S. troops should stay
• AP-GfK poll: Obama approval hits 60 percent
• Complaint prompts revote
• Scientists identify possible human lung stem cell
• Board chairman retaliates against dissenter
• Man faces cocaine charges after traffic stop
• Members consider public comment rules at meetings
• Benefit set Saturday for Nachusa family
• Rock Falls native thinks fashion forward
• Officials eye nepotism policy
• Dixon firefighter put on leave
• Concert pays tribute to vets
• 2 quakes in Spain kill 10, injure dozens
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Letter carriers collecting food Saturday
• A chosen few see bin Laden photos as the rest wait
• Vocal talent performing in Sterling
• Officials again follow hiring policy
• Man pleads not guilty
• Education reform plan gets Ill. House committee OK
• Damage, deaths from earthquake in Spain
• Chicago names street 'Oprah Winfrey Way'
• Panel balks at measure linked to Scientology
• Quinn: Cutting education not 'good way to go'
• Blago had expletive-laden 2008 message for voters
• Flooded river taking aim at Mississippi Delta
• Illinois WWII veteran gets Bronze Star
• Comments due on developmental disabilities deal
• Officials to discuss business tax credit
• Privacy in script for Schwarzenegger-Shriver split
• Grocer helps scared residents evacuate
• DIXON BURGLARIES Suspects held on $75,000 each
• Amboy man sentenced in Craigslist solicitation
• GM to add or keep 4,000 jobs in US
• Volunteers needed for riverbank cleanup
• Duck draw to benefit literacy Saturday at Northland Mall
• Members clash over what to put on agendas
• Pork chop dinner to be served at Dixon church
• Local group offers free trip to waste reduction summit
• House plan would cut school spending by 4 percent
• Too much government?
• WHITESIDE COUNTY No action yet on pro-gun resolution
• Ex-Sterling man running for president
• Exploding ammo hinders firefighters
• Garage fire's cause under investigation
• Five city council members take official oaths during brief ceremony at City Hall
• Microsoft to buy Skype phone service for $8.5 billion
• Exceptional Care clients to demonstrate art skills Thursday
• Felon faces new gun, marijuana charges
• Pakistan names general to probe bin Laden scandal
• Apple overtakes Google as top brand
• Several states, Amtrak get more high-speed rail funds
• Bike safety rodeo Saturday
• Emerson quarry a hotbed of activity
• More evacuations in Memphis; city waits on river
• Two local men in custody in overnight break-ins
• State's attorney answers public criticism
• Annual Sterling spring cleanup this weekend
• Project links 10 houses to city sewer system
• Tangles to host Hair-A-Thon
• Free airplane rides for kids Saturday
• City Council gets four new members
• Group wants to make the waterway more inviting
• Members trying to eliminate $250,000 budget deficit
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Group: City must get involved in planning
• Storm Chasers, Day 1: Cruising into Wichita
• Study: Quinn budget plan shows deficit topping $9 billion
• Quinn says he'll work to keep Sears in Illinois
• Quinn doesn't support automatic utility increases
• Blago attorney questioning prosecution witness
• Pakistani PM: Bin Laden death was 'justice done'
• Mississippi River could crest Monday at Memphis
• Man subdued for banging on airplane's cockpit door
• Cyber-school students: Pentagon snubs our service
• Quake shifted Japan; towns now flood at high tide
• Study: Quinn budget plan shows deficit topping $9B
• Kids get custom-fitted helmets
• Study in South Korea finds higher rate of autism
• Biden and Clinton lecture China on human rights
• Chicago mayor hosts public farewell gathering
• One member misses a third of meetings
• Real estate tax bills have been mailed
• Comcast Dixon office closed
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Panel reconsiders pro-gun resolution
• Polo woman still suffering from 2008 crash
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Veterans take Honor Flight May 19
• DIXON CITY COUNCIL Budget work session tonight in City Hall
• Damage to attic in house fire
• 18 cars damaged in Sterling Sunday
• Storm chasers: Daily updates on WQAD team found here, online
• Bin Laden death sparks new talk over Patriot Act
• U.S. releases videos of Osama bin Laden
• In Nevada, search for missing Canadian man resumes
• Memphis readies for big river; Ky. spared calamity
• Costa Rica finds body of US student missing at sea
• Six Flags Great America opens for 2011 season
• Fallen Navy SEAL honored with warship
• After Bin Laden: What might come next
• NIU volunteers painted school official's house
• FAA says 2 dead in small plane crash in Texas
• Lawmakers ponder immunity in overdose cases
• Quinn to attend Chicago civil union ceremony
• Kirk asserts Pakistan knew of Bin Laden residence
• Cook County Jail is hiring correctional officers
• Commission would probe racial discrimination
• Open for Business: Cobblestone Ice Cream & Deli
• Dixon High graduate presents archaeology project
• Pegasus Riders need volunteers
• Donations benefit ag education
• Ogle County’s open burning of waste – is it legal?
• FHN to award health care scholarships
• Ogle County provides recycling guidelines
• Senior Valbona Bajrami, 18, is Dixon High
• Timber Lake teaching theater workshop for teens
• West Carroll students take five firsts at district FFA
• West Carroll FFA has sixth annual chapter banquet
• Whiteside senior center offers activities, classes
• SOM DixonSenior Emily Clemens, 17, is Dixo
• Ashford recognizes area teachers with awards
• Noting time crucial to submitting community section copy
• Coloma Township offering co-ed softball this summer
• Freeport hospital opens wound care center
• Lee health department receives grant for health week
• Soybean association seeks candidates
• Tokens and remembrances of Grandpa
• A new perspective on theology and culture
• Car chase in Rock Falls, Dixon leads to arrest
• Weekend Top 5
• Teen pleads not guilty in Walmart burglary case
• Charges filed in April 29 Rock Falls shooting
• MARIJUANA CASE Compton man fined $1,300, gets conditional discharge
• COMMUNITY PROFILE: ROY BRIDGEMAN Teacher, coach, commissioner
• Loan fund program further delayed
• Burke appears in Chinese news
• Illinois House rejects test of medical marijuana
• State House rejects legalizing concealed carry
• Morrison factory to close
• Organizers pleased with submissions so far
• 3 suspects in Wednesday bomb threat at high school
• Man fined $1,300, gets conditional discharge
• Mayors speak of faith in leadership
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Applications for jobless benefits surge
• Money box and scales reunited
• Prosecutors keep focus on seat at Blago retrial
• Levee blast means lost year for Missouri farmers
• Illinois House rejects test of medical marijuana
• Quinn sees irony in timing of gun bill
• Wife: Bush skips 9/11 NY event to keep low profile
• Michael's stores report credit, debit card breach
• Obama makes stop at Lower Manhattan police station
• Stocks waver after unemployment claims jump
• 2 arrests in April 29 shooting
• Navy SEAL honored with warship bearing his name
• Northwestern to give honorary degree to Colbert
• Demolition begins at Bradley University building
• EPA announces Chicago hearing on mercury pollution
• Man to appear in court May 18 in sex abuse case
• Donations sought for Red Cross auction
• Man charged with sexual abuse
• New PetSmart opens Monday in Sterling
• Rice leaves vacancy on county board
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• ‘Reagan and His Ranch’ opens Friday
• Singer/songwriter finishing first album
• Egyptian ceremony celebrates Palestinian unity pact
• Earthquake drill aims to teach preparedness, even in Illinois
• Endeavour launch brings tourists, traffic to Fla.
• What's going on
• Two new Habitat homes going up
• Last chance to see ‘30 in 60’ at Sauk
• Defense wants confession tossed
• Ready to illustrate
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Child actors, singers needed
• Fed holds line on bond purchases, interest rates
• The Nunsense continues
• Polo woman gets jail, probation in Rock Falls scrap case
• McDonald’s on its way
• Sterling man, on the lam 3 months, caught in Iowa
• Four plead not guilty in federal court
• School board to vote on TIF issue
• Walmart bandidos sought
• Oregon man faces numerous charges in Ogle, Lee
• What to do about Medicare is at heart of budget debate
• Morrison doing 'thorough job' in search
• Free developmental assets training offered
• Obama releases birth form, decries 'silliness'
• Fed says $600B bond program to end in June
• Budget woes mean long waits for tax refunds
• Ron Paul takes step toward presidential run
• Poker run Sunday for family of Rock Falls man
• Budget cuts hurting Focus House
• Forreston man, 22, wanted in sex abuse case
• AP survey: Only oil shock can stop economy now
• Nelson man hurt when crash pushes car into moving train
• Morrison crime: 38-year-old charged in home burglary
• Coroner: Morrison woman died of natural causes
• Encore, encore!
• Ogle cancels May planning commission meeting
• Floodwaters threaten to overrun Midwest levees
• U.S. Route 52 bridge reopens
• Hundreds detained after bloody Syrian crackdown
• Meals going up in Sterling schools
• Ford posts best 1Q profit in 13 years on new cars
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Oregon man facing child porn charges
• It’s time to try swai
• P-L-T SCHOOLS: District posts list of students who owe
• In a first, women surpass men in advanced degrees
• In a first, women surpass men in advanced degrees
• Bernanke to meet the press, watchful of his words
• Facebook launches deals program, rivals Groupon
• Shrinking budgets force shutdown of alien search
• Poll: Working boomers say age a plus at office
• Number of 100-year-olds is booming in US
• Rock Island prosecutor pleads guilty, resigns
• Earnings drive stocks to new 2011 highs
• Sycamore vet raises suicide awareness
• Weather service: Ark. in for more severe weather
• Mayor asks Cairo residents to leave as river rises
• Mall bomb suspect caught; no word on motive
• Consumer Confidence Index rises in April
• Jet skids off Midway runway, nobody injured
• Inmate work crews fill sandbags, remove debris
• Ground broken for WIU performing arts center
• Brookfield, Shedd to tout climate change awareness
• Accused nursing home supervisor faces fewer counts
• Nominate a vet for local Armed Forces Day event
• FDA says Merck drug successfully fights hepatitis
• P-L-T may buy laptops for its board
• As economy gains strength, Fed weighs what's next
• Parking lot next on Veterans Memorial Park to-do list
• Illinois finishes last in paying for pensions
• Sheley wins motion, will represent himself at trial
• Carter to travel to North Korea
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Residents flee as river overflows Missouri levee
• Prosecutors want to use Blagojevich TV interview to bolster case
• Bidding on P-L-T project soon
• Barbour out, GOP ponders as 2012 field takes shape
• Levi Johnston to pen tell-all book on Palin family
• Manhunt on for hundreds of Taliban who escaped from Afghan jail
• Wet weather stalls Ill. corn planting
• Syria ramps up crackdown as U.S. considers 'targeted' sanctions
• 12 killed as Gadhafi troops shell rebel-held Misrata
• Carroll County cuts size of board
• Rapper, restaurateur in war of words
• Thousands of Syrian troops raid rebellious city
• Sheley gets the OK to represent himself; Knox County trial starts June 20
• Flavor Flav's chicken restaurant closes in Iowa
• Missouri levee threatens to burst amid worsening floods
• Taliban tunnel more than 480 out of Afghan prison
• Search on for unbiased jurors in Blagojevich case
• US weighs sanctions on Assad, other Syrian leaders
• Houston hospital: Giffords can attend launch
• FBI: Colo. mall likely unrelated to Columbine
• Missing SIUC student safe at home
• Galesburg native's kid laughs it up on YouTube
• Registration due for Whiteside County 4-H camp
• Lawmakers tour decommissioned nuclear plant
• Farm Service Agency honors 25-year employee
• Scientists: It's taking too long to get BP money
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• In the Legislature: Lawmakers consider softening cemetery law
• Sign-up begins for annual golf fundraiser
• Election 2012: Obama paints Ryan as Republican to beat
• Sun and fun at kite festival
• Police warn of phone scam
• Egg hunts make kids very hoppy
• With lights, poems, teens say goodbye to Cabrini
• Prescription drug drop-off day Saturday
• No new action on administrator's job
• Auctions items sought for benefit Saturday; three bands will perfrom
• Morrison schools consider random drug-tests
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Franklin Grove woman's club to hold banquet
• Saturday's canal cleanup needs volunters
• Free phone consultations with attorneys available Saturday
• Student of the Month: Bridget Hughes
• 4-H Clever Clovers gather
• Date set for hospice golf outing
• Annual walk for Shining Star May 14
• Sterling student receives scholarship from Hesston College
• Trail ride to benefit St. Jude
• '57 Girls to meet for lunch
• FSA farm storage facility loan program available to producers
• Christ Lutheran seeks craft fair vendors
• Morrison Junior High hosts music contest
• Polo Town and Country Days seeks crafters
• Forreston Friskies 4-H Club meets
• Volunteer millers attend weather training course
• Health department's offers pandemic outreach programs
• Crime on decline in '10
• Military
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation class to start May 5 in Mendota
• Touch of Spring Bazaar to feature flowers and food
• Student of the Month: Jake Trancoso
• Job numbers continue to improve
• Pro-gun issue still on table
• Lawn mowers can be fun, too
• Dixon man charged with setting carport on fire
• Private equity firm buys Plews & Edelman
• Chicago man to be arraigned in burglary case
• A symbol of his service
• Interactive exhibit stirs emotions
• A vision for Rock Falls
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• Giffords makes Time's 100 'most influential' list
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Nevada Sen. Ensign, facing ethics probe, will resign
• Private Frank Lloyd Wright homes open for tours
• Rockford airport reports 3rd busiest month
• Potential jurors already think Blagojevich guilty
• Commission recommends annexation for new church
• U.S. task force will investigate high gas prices
• Mother, daughter die in Wednesday crash
• NM ex-gov. Johnson announces presidential bid
• Libya rebels claim control of Tunisian border post
• CDC predicts smoking bans in every state by 2020
• Simon praised for expanding financial disclosure
• BNSF plans to add jobs in west-central Illinois
• New Beginnings: Dixon church finds a new home
• Chicago police concerned about conceal-carry bill
• Bright, colorful exhibit on display at Sauk Valley Bank in Dixon
• New Life Lutheran wants to build church at Lynn Blvd.
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Poll: College students get hard lessons in finance
• Lemons murder trial advances
• Commission members to tour Reliant site today
• Roommate charged with hate crime in NJ webcam case
• Work starts Monday on I-88 west of Erie
• Impressions of oppression
• Thomas & Betts to leave
• Lee County didn't give notice
• Lee County tax hike on table
• Floodwaters close Route 84 in Albany
• Hultgren to sponsor law to require tougher teen driving restrictions
• What's going on
• Book bind: Public libraries feel strain of budget cuts
• A penny burned
• Sauk Valley Student Housing relinquishes Commons
• Chicago police concerned about conceal-carry bill
• More Illinoisans shunning landline phones
• College students get hard lessons in finance
• New DOT rule tackles fees, bumping, flight delays
• Thousands without power after storms hit Illinois
• Day of remembrance: 1 year after Gulf oil disaster
• Police look at how Houston kindergartener got gun
• US Sen. Kirk joins Naval Academy board
• Plane with first lady came too close to cargo jet
• Paddle wheel passes the pudge test
• Obama on road trip to push on deficits and spending
• Truck stop proposal rejected: Developer says project dead after 2nd rejection
• Egg hunt Saturday in Amboy
• Polo considers extending hours for Sunday liquor sales
• Prom for all ages April 29 in Dixon
• Residents protest subdivision
• Whiteside jail may have new officer in 2 weeks, sheriff says
• Lost Lake plans water upgrades
• Water ski show, Reagan theme added to Petunia Festival
• Girls softball team having fundraiser
• Rock Falls adopts balanced 2011-12 budget
• Geithner confident Congress will raise debt limit
• WikiLeaks suspect being moved out of Quantico
• Polo church offering Easter cantata
• East Coloma getting new phone system
• Easter service, sunrise breakfast Sunday in Rochelle
• Ill. treasurer: Pension battle belongs in court
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Lee County Board votes to have 24 members rather than 28
• McDonald's hiring day draws crowds, high hopes
• IHSA tightens policy on concussion checks
• Illinois Treasurer: Pension battle belongs in court
• Health chief Sebelius contrasts Medicare proposals
• Kindergartner brings gun to Texas school, 3 hurt
• Obama rips GOP plan, yet sees hope for a debt deal
• Storm's death toll rises to 23 in North Carolina
• FTC: Fake news sites link to acai berry diet
• Woman, 2 children shot dead before Rockford fire
• Quinn speaks at Earth Day transportation summit
• Officials target car dealers that close doors
• Illinois offers low-interest loans to farmers
• U.S. Supreme Court won't hear Bickerstaff appeal
• Schilling hammers home his message: Cut spending, don't raise taxes
• Counties don't count prisoners
• Mississippi bridge closed
• Truck stop or travel plaza?
• BP looking stronger?
• East Coloma meets tonight
• S&P cuts long-term outlook for US debt to negative
• Sen. Kirk proposes ideas to lower gas prices
• No action on pro-gun resolution
• Fire totals Rock Falls mobile home
• Annual LSSI Bid For Youth auction April 29 in Oregon
• Cost-cutting lawmakers target food stamps
• Two commissioners say goodbye
• Dixon library selling old, rare books online
• New residence hall on the way
• AmeriCorps seeks volunteers
• Dixon man charged with stealing from neighbor
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• WNIJ having 20th anniversary open house
• Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically
• LA Times wins Pulitzer for exposing big salaries
• At least 44 dead after killer twisters pound South
• UN, Libya reach deal on providing humanitarian aid
• Jobless rates higher for black teens in Illinois
• BP is looking strong a year later
• Poll: Students optimistic despite money doubts
• Senator Kirk proposes ideas to lower gas prices
• Republican legislative gains tug nation to right
• LaHood vows to stop air traffic controller napping
• Surgeon resigns leadership post over editorial
• Radiation near Japan reactors too high for workers
• Peoria drummers to travel to Europe
• Illinois farmer rescues 149-year-old barn
• Schilling holding town hall today
• New details emerge in coach’s departure
• This week's egg hunts
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Free oaks still available in Lee, Ogle counties
• A dark lesson
• Building a community
• Agencies treat nepotism differently
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• No plans for Sterling Theater
• Barrel Bash competition rolls through Sterling
• Blagojevich says he's never considered a plea deal
• Public redistricting meeting Tuesday
• Support for Obama depends on reform
• Rockford airport begins national search for leader
• Most lawyers recommended by Madigan become judges
• At least 35 dead in 6 states after storm's rampage
• Open for Business: Dr. David C. Jennings, optometrist
• Business comings and goings
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Teen Turf Drawdown set for May 7
• Rochelle senior center plans events
• Annual Hospice memorial service planned
• FACE provides grant funds for community projects
• Lee tourism council's annual dinner meeting set for May 11
• Millers sponsoring community reading event
• Go wild, go birding in Thomson
• Eggstravaganza egg hunt in Sterling
• ISA celebrates National Soyfoods Month
• Antique equipment association to have swap meet
• Hidden hazards of backyard burning
• Lee and Whiteside County 4-H'ers visit legislators
• Senior Sara Bartnick, 18, is Polo High Sch
• Amboy SOM
• Lincoln Elementary teachers to guest bartend
• West Carroll FFA Parliamentary Procedure team advances
• Benefits of tax districts debated
• Minors in Illinois have a tougher time buying cigarettes
• Lawmakers approve big piece of state budget
• Illinois steps in to help Japan recovery effort
• Madam Speaker no more
• Layoffs in Lee County’s future?
• County Board breaks hiring freeze policy
• State's attorney blasts group
• Lee panels differ on IT money
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Sheriff: Neighbor foils burglary
• House panel hears about pain pill pipeline
• Syrian prisoners ordered released
• Leaders talk about shifting teacher retirement costs
• Stories differ on Election Day clash
• Whiteside road, bridge work resumes Monday
• Chadwick firefighters plan breakfast Sunday
• Medication drop-off day April 30 in Morrison
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Rate on 30-year fixed mortgage rises to 4.91 pct.
• Illinois man denies taking military data to China
• House passes budget cuts — without enthusiasm
• Small towns struggle to find enough candidates
• Fake US licenses being sent from China
• Illinois jobless rate dips to 8.8 percent in March
• Census: Hispanics surpass blacks in most US metros
• Schools stuck on watch list get no state help
• Obama to spend night in Chicago after raising cash
• NATO struggles to resolve dispute over Libya fight
• FAA official resigns after sleeping controllers
• Ford expands recall of F-150 pickup to nearly 1.2M
• Chicago man charged with Whiteside residential burglary
• Police: DeKalb suspect stole car from Sterling
• Midway Drive-In opens this weekend
• On the hunt
• Hultgren's first legislation: Congress works or doesn't get paid
• Sterling Moose to debut car, truck, and bike show
• Peoria outlaws businesses catering to swingers
• What's going on
• Blago: Feds won't let me prove innocence
• WIU official finds Lincoln note on office wall
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Obama borrows time with deficit reduction plan
• Adults, students invited to assets meeting
• Main Street Wine Cellar fined $350
• One Lee County district has more clout
• Obama's deficit plan begins tug-of-war with Republicans
• Education overhaul readied for Illinois Senate test
• Two arrested on ATV, charged with stealing lawn lights
• Four hit with federal drug charges
• Expressions art show and sale returns
• Riverfront paver orders due by June 1
• Obama pivots, eyes Medicare changes, tax increases
• Libyan rebels urge stronger US military role
• Air controller asleep as plane landed
• Yale student killed when lab machine snags hair
• Official: Boy had 2 minutes to flee sinking van
• House OKs tougher oversight of group homes
• CDC: Half of US adults take vitamins, supplements
• 5 large states, 5 different paths to fix budgets
• Egypt's Mubarak detained for investigation
• Calif. sets nation's highest renewable power goals
• Mubarak hospitalized after suffering heart attack during questioning
• Libyan rebel chief with U.S. ties feels abandoned
• Truck stop gains supporters
• State schools's bus money could be halved
• Gas prices predicted to be up 40 percent this summer
• Blago prosecutors ask to bar wiretap argument
• Free trees for river dwellers
• Bob Dole honored with plaque at WWII Memorial
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• No space shuttle for Chicago's Adler Planetarium
• Advocates push back against Smart Grid
• Fort Sumter: Somber 150th anniversary of Civil War
• Bureau Valley High a YouTube hit
• Geneva chocolate tour on tap
• City wants more residents to go green, earn rewards
• Vote on scrapping old lockers stalls
• Key Club steps up to help Sterling family
• Oregon VFW cancels breakfast Easter Sunday
• Police: Proselytizer was approaching Milledgeville children
• City to make its case for TIF district to schools
• Cisco plans to shut its Flip camcorder business
• Benefit to help Dixon man set for Saturday
• On wind issue, what does public want?
• Cisco plans to shut its Flip camcorder business
• Budget tricks helped Obama save programs from cuts
• State Farm plans mileage-based premiums
• Fort Sumter: Somber 150th anniversary of Civil War
• Super jumbo jet clips, spins plane at JFK Airport
• No space shuttle for Chicago's Adler Planetarium
• Japan equates nuclear crisis severity to Chernobyl
• Business groups open to gov's work comp fix call
• Chicago exploring high speed rail system
• Report outlines Illinois options on pension debt
• White House: Obama to lay out spending plan
• Rock Falls to OK teacher contract
• Committee will determine foreclosure rules
• Libyan rebels reject African cease-fire proposal
• City follows state’s advice on loan fund
• Initial budget $250,000 too much
• IDOT: No money on tap for U.S. 30 project
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Petition drive for referendum fails
• Mayor takes responsibility
• Scrapping old lockers
• Romney kicks off 2nd try for president
• Local man familiar with Fukushima plant
• Former Dixon coach wants federal lawsuit reinstated
• Illinois businesses to see tax increase in 2012
• Dixon's preliminary budget $250,000 too much
• Community invited to take part in earthquake drill
• Local tea party still has seats for rally-goers
• Two charged in Dixon car break-ins
• Truck stop coming back to table: Board may reverse previous decision
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Ill. woman fills home with heirlooms
• Hunting for Easter eggs in the Sauk Valley
• Chess players invited to play Saturday
• Relay for Life fundraiser Saturday in Morrison
• Learning to lead
• Whiteside senior center cancels spa day
• YMCA looking K-2 Cinco de Mayo contestants
• White House: Obama to lay out spending plan
• Caring Center holding open house
• Tornado destroys dozen or more blocks in Iowa town
• Twin Cities bicker over state leases
• Some elected officials getting sweet pension deal
• Health department offers foot clinic for seniors
• Somber ceremonies mark 1 month since Japan tsunami
• Freshmen lawmakers endure rookie hazing
• Plea deals have value, judge says
• Panel to look at truck-stop deal
• Landlord still waiting for an answer
• Court Call
• No administrator for Morrison yet
• Gbagbo's forces retaliate in Ivory Coast
• Illinois Farm Bureau teaches ag to students
• Analysis: GOP won first round of budget battle
• 7 killed, 15 wounded in Dutch mall shooting
• Peoria jail employee suspended after gun found
• Yemenis demanding leader's ouster shot in 2 cities
• Illinois freshmen lawmakers endure rookie hazing
• Unions rally in Chicago for public workers
• Bank robberies declined slightly in Ilinois in 2010
• Libyan rebels face military surge on key outpost
• 2 shot dead, 8 wounded at teen party near Philly
• Illinois federal employees relieved shutdown averted
• New entrepreneurs in Cuba get mixed results
• Long meetings, dashed hopes - but finally a deal
• Japan bans planting rice in radioactive soil
• Boeing 737s around the world face new scrutiny
• Runners, walkers to help St. Jude May 7
• Whiteside Democrats offering scholarship to SVCC
• Clergy association to present Palm Sunday community concert
• Scholarships available from SWCD office
• Historical items sought for Lanark's 150th birthday
• Chana student nominated for state award
• Area student presents research at Iowa State Capitol
• Scholarship available to business students
• Quad-Cities public TV station offering scholarship
• Ogle Solid Waste provides paint disposal guidelines
• Calvary Lighthouse to present rapture drama
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Jennifer Wolfe, 18, is Ashton-Franklin Cen
• Feb. SoM AHS Wheeler
• Heritage Farm Museum opens for season
• Easter egg hunt open to kids ages 3 to 8
• CGH Auxiliary plans fundraisers
• Glen Kuhlemier
• Alzheimer's Association schedules programs, fundraiser
• No death benefits for military during shutdown
• Gingrich to speak at Eureka College
• Bomb threat at Morrison High School
• Giffords staff planning for space shuttle launch
• Registration due for Dixon citywide garage sale
• Senior center dancing open to all
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Peoria aims to shoot down swingers club
• Legislation would bar release of gun permit info
• Cleveland airport evacuated amid screening glitch
• Congress doesn't shut down during a shutdown
• 11 children killed in Brazil school shooting
• A look at how a shutdown would affect Americans
• 3-2-1-blastoff to space shuttles' last destination
• Police: Alabama man charged in mother-in-law's slaying
• Federal employees march in Chicago
• Illinois House may scrap workers' compensation
• Revival meetings start Sunday at Amazing Grace
• Habitat invites all to annual planning meeting
• Rock River Valley Barbershop Chorus turns 60
• Theater on the fly
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Doggie egg hunt Saturday in Sterling
• Polo Senior Center offers East Coast trip
• Section of Artesian Avenue to close until May 13
• Amboy alumni needed for summer theater
• Doris E. Storlien
• Rockford woman admits VA benefits fraud
• US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts
• White House says shutdown will delay pay to troops
• Catholic group backs Illinois ultrasound bill
• Rising oil prices beginning to hurt US economy
• Two Amboy incumbents survive
• Blood drive Thursday at CGH
• Rock Falls city phones down today; 911 unaffected
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Gadhafi, in letter, asks Obama to end air strikes
• Split over union law reaches Wis. court race
• Obama administration: Shutdown would hurt economy
• Oil jumps above $109 a barrel
• Mom sues teacher who put photo of girl on Facebook
• Illinois pressing crackdown on synthetic drugs
• Schools face cliff as education money dries up
• Japan stops highly radioactive leak into Pacific
• Change at the top at Newman
• Rock Falls' 2011-12 budget balances
• 2 men injured in Ogle crash
• Homeowner holds teens at gunpoint
• Defense seeks mental exam of Josh Sheley
• Lee elected mayor of Sterling
• Obama presses Congress to avoid shutdown
• In bunker, Ivory's Coast's Gbagbo plays final hand
• Sea radiation is another blow to Japan's fishermen
• Authorities confirm 2 Americans killed in Mexico
• Republican budget plan would revamp Medicare, Medicaid
• Fed members raise specter of higher interest rates
• Illinois bill would create murderer database
• Illinois judge throws out rule on contraception
• Retail sector adding jobs, but not always careers
• ACLU questions Illinois law that bars recording cops
• Wis. Democrats who fled quietly return to Senate
• Knox County, not state, to now pay for Sheley case
• Illinois 1st grader a chess champion
• Finn leaving Newman after school year
• Downtown project in Peoria gets $1M from feds
• Texas death row inmate gets reprieve
• Retired teachers to gather for lunch meeting, tour
• A chance to learn about Reagan, freedom
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Southwest finds cracks in more planes
• Holder: No Gitmo detainees in Thomson
• Beef-A-Roo leaves Sterling
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Sow Belly's carry-out moving into downtown Dixon
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• SIU Board of Trustees chairman resigns
• Blagojevich to teens: Politics is disillusioning
• Illinois to participate in earthquake drill
• Will mix of polymers, newspaper and sawdust stop nuke leak?
• On Tuesday's ballots
• Polling places
• One Day makes a difference
• Happy Tails ready to show off its new home
• Top candidate emerges in Morrison's administrator search
• Home to a variety of exhibitors
• Knights of Columbus fish fry coming up
• Some towns see little election action
• Flower sale Wednesday at CGH Medical Center
• Engineers pin hopes on polymer to stop nuke leak
• Interview: Rebels in Libya say they seek democracy
• Pakistan Taliban kill 30 in attack on Sufi shrine
• Government appeals judge's health care ruling
• Boy dies after fall from Chicago roller coaster
• Ivory Coast fighters prepare to oust leader
• Illinois set to participate in earthquake drill
• Mom says iPad helps autistic child
• Rand Paul visits Iowa, urges GOP not to compromise
• FDA proposes more calorie count information
• Blagojevich to teens: Politics is disillusioning
• Southwest grounds about 80 planes after mishap
• Booby-trap bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman
• Afghan riots over Quran-burning: 2 days, 20 dead
• 4 dead in crash of small plane at NM airport
• Libyan rebels say airstrike killed 13 of their own
• Man pleads guilty to pointing laser at plane
• Illinois auto museum home to Michael Jordan's car
• Dixon Lionesses plan dinner, auction
• Honor Roll Chadwick
• Rock Falls library announces April events
• Six-year alderman running against Navy veteran
• Polo Community Preschool hosting open house
• Rochelle student advances to National Spelling Bee
• Protecting our environment is a wise investment
• Genealogy program planned in Fulton
• Quilters guild to meet Thursday in Princeton
• The Biggest Little Music Show in Town coming
• Ogle hospice doing memory pillow project
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Will towns be given power to deal on electric rates?
• Jan. SoM AHS Leffelman
• Prophetstown Methodist women serving spring luncheon
• Model railroad club to host open house
• Three vying for Dixon helm
• Firefighters to host breakfast
• Tax hike before Carroll County voters
• Gold Refinery to buy items at CGH
• Afghans storm UN office; 7 foreigners killed
• Quinn proposing changes to workers' comp in Illinois
• FDA proposes calorie counts on menus
• Airline: Plane diverted after 4 passengers faint
• Miss. school bus-semi crash kills girl; 10 hurt
• Army group says there ARE atheists in foxholes
• Kirk: Provide arms to Libyan rebels
• State OKs plan to keep jobless benefits for 44,000
• Will Dixon bridge wish be granted?
• Running to remember
• Polo incumbent faces challenge
• Morrison to see new blood
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Three Amboy incumbents contested
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Nixon Library unveils new Watergate exhibit that sparked controversy
• FDA panel votes to study food dyes, hyperactivity
• Senate votes to merge treasurer, comptroller offices
• Judge rules that Wis. union law not in effect; state says it will comply
• Bigger corn crop not likely to ease food inflation
• Quinn refuses 'radical, severe' school cuts
• Ex-foreign minister could be key to Gadhafi ouster
• Wisconsin governor halts plans to implement union law
• 7 injured in tent collapse from storms in Florida
• Little support for Quinn school consolidation plan
• Nuclear experts: Illinois not in danger
• Ivory Coast fighters descend upon main city
• Wind firm makes 'final offer'
• A healthier result for Lee County
• Illinois House setting aside governor's budget plan
• Morrison may choose new leader soon
• Obama sets ambitious goal to reduce U.S. oil imports
• 'Club Swing' to close out concert association season
• World War II review benefits Honor Flight
• Crowded field for commission
• Martin only incumbent challenged on Sterling council
• Fight for office space not over
• Two of Rock Falls' four wards contested
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Route 30 bridge near Fulton down to one lane
• Dixon woman charged with DUI, kicking officer
• Sewer repair closes Morrison street
• Dixon, Sterling have all-staters in group interpretation
• Disease advocators to see legislators
• Will turbines affect your home's value?
• Hultgren aides available Tuesday in Whiteside County
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Oregon teen to be tried as an adult in sex assault case
• Illinois House setting aside governor's budget plan
• Rockford to lay off 29 tenured school staffers
• Anti-smoking groups rally against Illinois House bills
• Sen. Durbin meets with postmaster general
• Bond set at $500,000 for Sterling shooting suspect
• Neb. governor tries to entice Caterpillar to move
• Top diplomats agree that Libya's Gadhafi must go
• Sheley seeks to fire counsel
• Justices skeptical of Wal-Mart class-action lawsuit
• No hike in tuition at Sauk
• Agent acted without thinking
• Move afoot to put bond issue on ballot
• Sheley again wants to fire his attorneys, no longer faces the death penalty
• Cost shift seen in raising Medicare age to 67
• Hultgren accepting applications for fall interns
• Sauk offers free performance event Friday
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• 11 injured after Chicago bus accident
• Fire-damaged block at University of Illinois reopens
• 30 years after Reagan shot, outlook dim for gun control
• Bond set Monday for two men in car-smashing case
• Sheriff: Fulton 'collector' caught with barn full of stolen equipment, tools
• $3B in child support owed to Illinois children
• Morrison official: Separate state loan funds
• Mayoral, commission candidates meet the public
• Sterling teen arrested in shooting
• Want the dog park to stay open? Speak!
• Group to tell Senate panel about 42 disease clusters in 13 states
• Three charged with stealing scrap metal
• Teens charged with disorderly conduct
• No threat from Japanese radiation spread across US
• Libyan rebels push west into less friendly territory
• Syrian president wavers on crackdown or compromise
• 2 dead, 8 injured as sailboat sinks off San Diego
• Libyan rebels bear down on Gadhafi's hometown
• Boston singer/songwriter to perform free show at Sauk
• Polo fun fair playground fundraiser Friday
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• $3B in child support owed to Illinois children
• Beer giant to purchase Chicago-based Goose Island
• KSB says goodbye to its chief
• Among Illinois state workers, union membership surges
• Two jailed in attack on car full of people
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Public notices not yet online-ready
• Laid off workers plan next moves
• Four look to win seats on Kishwaukee college board
• FAA reports show O'Hare project raises risk for potential crashes
• Lt. Gov. Simon ribbed about job on radio show
• Medicare rise could mean no Social Security increase
• 'Windfall' premieres locally to large crowd
• Dixon man charged with DUI alcohol, drugs
• Know your Neighbors Frye
• Forreston Friskies conduct new business
• Applications available for ag educators course
• Polo women's club plans fundraiser
• Gospel group coming to Rock Falls
• PFLAG to meet Sunday in Dixon
• Ohio church having fish fry, bake sale
• Dixon library announces upcoming events
• Forest Preserve District announces offerings
• Ag books donated to Carroll County libraries
• Jessica Bouwens: February Student of the Month
• Winners announced at regional art show in Dixon
• Amboy Central Elementary art club gets grant
• Donkey basketball coming to Mount Morris
• Electronics recycling event scheduled in Rochelle
• Garage and bake sales benefit Shining Star
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Reaffirming the path of Christ at Lent
• Carroll County 4-H'ers compete in oratory contest
• Annual baseball club fundraiser set for April 16
• Canada's Government Falls
• A grand piano collection
• On the ground in Libya: Rebels with a cause, but little else
• Antiques in Oregon
• Blood drive coming up in Ashton
• Deadline extended for Civil War ancestor articles
• Walgreen to spend about $429M for drugstore.com
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Ex-FBI agents insist colleague unfairly convicted
• What's behind our conflicted feelings on nukes?
• Man gets 32 years in Chicago student's slaying
• Controller asleep – but how many did airport need?
• Portugal edges toward bailout after govt quits
• Chicagoan claims $9M lottery jackpot just in time
• For al-Qaida, Detroit was just the cheapest flight
• Texas artifacts 'strongest evidence yet' that humans arrived in North America earlier than thought
• State to online, out-of-state shoppers: Pay up
• U.S. Latinos top 50 million in population
• U of I wrongly warns students of campus shooter
• Savings from 5-day mail delivery said overstated
• Sterling Police searching for car vandals
• Sterling woman needs losers
• Long-running antique show this weekend in Oregon
• CGH Auxiliary selling sheets, purses and shoes Monday
• White Pines welcomes Willie and his ventriloquist
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• State to online, out-of-state shoppers: Pay up
• Amboy man pleads guilty to pandering, theft
• Grocers say high vegetable prices should drop soon
• 20 years in the making
• Amboy bunny count tailing off
• Federal shelter from storm
• Report: Damaged pipe blocked blowout preventer on BP well
• Recruiting officers at Sauk job fair
• Taylor lived glorious spectacle on-screen and off
• U of I trustees OK 6.9 percent tuition increase
• WYSE Kids
• Caterpillar gives upbeat forecast
• Judge drops corruption charges against prosecutor
• America pressures allies to take Libya mission now
• Judge reschedules hearing in fatal Fulton fire
• Ogle County Juvenile Justice Council takes to Facebook
• Developer to county: Act quickly
• Future looks brighter at Dixon High
• Relatives rescue boy being attacked by dog
• Ogle transferring up to $3 million to cover payroll
• Oregon to manage its own sewer, water departments
• Official explains tie to wind industry
• It's all in the interpretation
• Dixon city candidates forum Monday
• Disabled residents fear budget cuts
• 2011 Campaign Calendar
• American spent-fuel storage sites are packed
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Illinois staying on track
• Area districts have higher standards for their athletes
• Snipers, shells, tanks terrorize key Libyan city
• Morrison charges highest fees
• Power lines up in progress at Japan nuclear plant
• FBI eyes cross-burning in California
• Deere gives $1 million to Red Cross to help Japan
• Illinois broadband connections outnumber landlines
• Study shows bridges in Illinois are deteriorating
• Officials tout high-speed rail construction
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• US jet crashes in Libya; fighting rages in cities
• Council opposes TIF district restrictions
• Program addresses teen drug abuse
• Food contamination fears spread beyond Japan's borders
• AT&T promises better service from merger
• Fresh start for Dixon’s Aldi
• Libya a political challenge for Obama
• Pelosi briefly hospitalized in Rome
• Leaders apologize for handling of 1944 rape
• Schilling, others want more details on Libya
• Health care law at one year: Future still in question
• Hultgren staff to be in Lee County
• Twin Cities Sunrise Rotary selling cypress mulch
• Food, shelter program accepting applications
• Open house for retiring KSB CEO set for Sunday
• Sterling police are looking for an SUV or
• Some progress seen in Japan's nuclear crisis
• Rock Falls candidates forum next week
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• HSTP committee to meet in Freeport
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• State jobs cut due to end of death penalty
• Free Rules of the Road classes for seniors
• Activists protest TIFs, say schools need the money
• NTSB releases documents in 2009 train derailment
• Fire at Lawrence Bros. closes bridge
• Bombing in Libya deemed a success
• Quinn stands out amid GOP gains
• Memory lane for some; for others, a chance to clear trash
• A look at the changing political landscape
• Sterling City Council meets tonight
• Learn how to save on your utility bills
• Sterling college students 'Pay It Forward'
• Smoking ban may dissipate
• Ogle County seeks wind farm comments
• Sauk Valley business comings and goings
• Eagle Nest artists take classes
• YWCA Women of Achievement luncheon April 7
• West Carroll FFA team wins Section 1 contest
• New workshop series planned at Pinecrest
• Rotary to have shrimp boil
• Homemakers Craft Camp set for May 10
• Health screenings April 4 in Dixon
• Lost Lake community lends a helping hand
• Tee baseball registration nears
• Boy Scouts having spaghetti dinner
• Local arts educators receive state awards
• Kayla Moore: December Student of the Month
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Goodbye, Beier Bakery
• FHN to present diabetes prevention program
• Boy Scout badge work scheduled
• Dinner to benefit Ogle Habitat for Humanity
• Chicago artist to judge Phidian Art Show
• Quilt guild to meet Monday in Forreston
• Three states seek to kick habit of raising cig taxes
• Experts knock notion of burying Japanese reactors
• Judge blocks contentious Wisconsin union law
• Hundreds of teachers lose jobs before school year
• Illinois approved for federal help after blizzard
• Quinn, Emanuel meet for 1st time since election
• 2 arrested for shining laser at plane, helicopter
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Officials haggle over truck stop deal
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Get to know nature in the city
• Bags, bets and bids for Granny Rose
• UN approves no-fly zone over Libya
• President O'Bama? Irish-American relatives ID'd
• Lemons trial set for April 11
• Search for missing now recovery
• J.D. Powers study: Autos more reliable
• Quinn seeks White House letter on Gitmo detainees
• Ill. GOP senators recommend significant cuts
• Quinn to seek higher fees on nuclear generators
• Higher prices for food are about to get worse
• St Anne's fish fry Friday
• Media groups seek documents in John Edwards' sex-tape case
• Nuclear crisis a tangle of ominous, hopeful signs
• Rock Falls to house state social services
• AP Exclusive: Ali asks Iran to free US hikers
• U.S. weapons used against Bahrain protesters
• Fire destroys empty house in rural Sterling
• Man injured in auger accident
• Reagan mobile exhibit making he rounds
• Celebrating the history of the mill
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Dixon student makes Reagan poetry contest finals
• Obama ducks transparency award, but reason isn't clear
• Gov't panel issues mixed final verdict on bailouts
• U.S. poverty rate climbs, but many able to escape, census report shows
• Bickerstaff appeals conviction to U.S. Supreme Court
• State committee approves cigarette tax increase
• Benefit for injured coach Sunday
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Wind farms dominate Ogle board meeting
• Carbon monoxide leak at Peru Mall
• Dixon woman faces DUI charge after one-car accident
• This week is national flood safety week
• Ill. GOP petitions to block Quinn appointment
• Prosecutor 'disturbed' by budget process
• Judge shaves 30 months off sentence
• Rock Falls redevelopment stirs concern in Sterling
• AG looks into records denial
• Chamber fundraiser Friday at Long Shot
• Criminal Justice Career Fair coming to Sauk
• Food drive challenge Thursday in Morrison
• Illinois wants to collect inmate's prison wages
• 'Windfall' documentary coming to Dixon
• Iowan imprisoned for defrauding Illinois employer
• Building burns in attempt to smoke out squirrels
• New contract sought for highway workers
• Bill would require abortion facility upgrades
• Clinton: Egypt revolution must produce democracy
• State wants to collect inmate's prison wages
• Blagojeviches to host Chicago morning radio show
• Quinn vetoes bills to set up coal-to-gas plants
• Mitsubishi plant waits for Japanese supplier news
• Illinois to pilot dementia care alternative at 5 sites
• Ill. GOP petitions to block Quinn appointment
• Hearing set in Ill. military secrets case
• Chavez, allies lead push for Libya mediation
• Japan races to contain nuclear threat after quake
• State cites Notre Dame violations in student death
• Explosion at Fort Bragg injures 10 military
• NASA investigates cocaine found at facility
• Stocks plunge as Japan nuclear crisis worsens
• Obama asks Congress for education bill by Sept.
• Exelon: U.S. nuke plants are safe
• Dixon to serve on board overseeing appellate prosecutors
• A new source of hope for cancer patients
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Hundreds of bodies wash ashore in quake-hit Japan
• Meltdown threat rises at Japanese nuclear plant
• Clinton in Paris for talks on Libya crisis
• Japan's blasts cast doubt on nuclear renaissance
• Bahrain 'arena' for Gulf forces and wider fears
• Illinois prof weighs in on Japan nuclear issues
• Logistics Council meets Thursday
• Deadline to order roses is Thursday
• Register now for Brownie senses badge program
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Kiwanis clubs to serve pancakes as fundraiser
• Obama prods Congress on education law renewal
• Guatemalans sue over 1940s US syphilis experiments
• Probe starts into Mass. chemical plant blast
• With O'Hare expansion deal, airlines drop lawsuit
• Experts dispute insanity in NH home invasion trial
• Stocks fall as worries mount over Japanese economy
• Police examine casino video in NYC bus crash
• US: Alleged bomber wanted to hit responders, too
• Amish hoping state changes gun rule
• Teen institute focuses on substance abuse prevention
• Scouts collecting old uniforms
• Spring Storytimes begin at Sterling library
• DNR boater education course scheduled
• Maple Syrup Festival features hayrides, pancakes
• New books in circulation at Dixon library
• New member welcomed at fire department meeting
• Ladies retreat set for April 1, 2 in Utica
• Northwest Illinois recycling event in Mount Carroll
• Wildlife refuge photo contest entries due by May 6
• Applications accepted for scholarship program
• NIU offers summer arts camps for kids
• Ronald Reagan birthday bash held in Tampico
• KSB Hospital scholarship deadline April 15
• Eyeglasses adjustment available at Rock River Center
• Tea Party hosts mayoral forum
• First Lutheran having PADS fundraiser
• Refuge begins prescribed burning
• Dominoes group donates Reagan book to Tampico library
• Band historian to present program
• Judge drops Sandholm lawsuit in federal court
• Morrison kindergarten meeting Tuesday
• Support groups, meetings, and services
• Tsunami waves hit Hawaii, sweep across islands
• Wis. defeat could help launch counterattack on GOP
• Hundreds killed in tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake
• No cause yet in Morrison woman's death; more results pending
• January jobless numbers much improved
• Wind firm sticks with project
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Higher electricity rates could be coming
• Wis. lawmakers cut public worker bargaining rights
• Local legislators urge President Obama to abandon Gitmo detainee relocation efforts
• Move off death row can be rocky, ex-inmates say
• Small turnout for Chicago immigrant rights rally
• Quinn signs law to collect online sales tax
• Doggone: Park 4 Paws may be closing down
• The paradin' o' the green
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Priest Corapi to speak at Catholic Charities benefit at NIU
• Dixon attorney to represent murder defendant
• Registration required for AARP driving class
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Yemeni army storms university, wounding 98
• Spellbinding experience
• Gates: Improvement seen in Afghanistan
• Sterling woman sued in shaken baby case
• Out of spotlight, GOP hopefuls prepping for 2012
• Gov. Quinn signs ban on death penalty
• Some members question planned security measures
• Whiteside committee takes no stance on death penalty
• Concealed weapons bill carries more support
• Police: Drunken dispute leads to weapons charges
• Union wants wind farms in Ogle County
• Mount Morris man gets probation, jail time in Carroll County burglaries
• Rock Falls redoing its road map
• RF Elementary board takes on consolidation
• Marine's dad vows to defy Westboro church on court costs, lawyer says
• Detention center on ICE
• Alert system touted after Challand lockdown
• Elgin-area school district approves 180 layoffs
• City Council passes sign ordinance
• 2 panel members have wind ties
• Franciscan priest to speak at weekend retreat at The Canticle
• Morrison High may drop French program
• A champ in 2010, no bee this year
• Plenty to learn about water rates
• Morrison district looks at drug-testing
• YWCA expands its Career Center services
• Council OKs adding enterprise zone site
• Against Libya's rebels, Gadhafi controls the skies
• US negotiating security deal with Afghans
• Challand girl made gun threat that led to lockdown, officials say
• Wis. gov. rebuffs Democrats' request for meeting
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Scientists skeptical of meteorite alien life claim
• Hultgren opens Dixon office, 2 others
• Hultgren fields constituent questions
• Nevada GOP Sen. Ensign won't seek re-election
• Gas prices are about more than just oil
• Propheter Park Neighborhood Watch meets Tuesday
• GOP presidential contest begins to warm up
• Libyan forces try to stop rapid rebel advance
• Study: Mom's blood test can reveal Down syndrome
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Support Groups, Meetings, and Services
• Oregon parish hosting fish fry
• Soup supper to benefit cancer walk
• Free retirement workshop Thursday at Pinecrest
• Free day of inspiration for women Saturday in Walnut
• East Coloma kindergarten registration coming up
• Benefit set for Franklin Grove man fighting ALS
• Schilling returns from Afghanistan
• Offices fight 
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running
• Sterling City Council to vote on changes to sign ordinance at tonight’s meeting
• Deadline to register to vote is Tuesday
• Lawmakers send letter about Rockford post office
• Illinois leads nation in single-school districts
• Lady in red
• It's a Kohl's day in Sterling
• Forreston Friskies learn about caring for pets
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• college news
• Byron forest district announces upcoming programs
• Dec. SoM PHS Ohlwine
• Tampico church having dinner fundraiser
• "Fulton’s Greatest Love Story" by Nicole Kotman
• Home educators' annual conference in Decatur
• Lee County Health Department receives program grants
• Quilters honor guild member
• State Route 2 improvement meeting scheduled
• Homeowners eligible for home-repair loans
• Three Sauk students awarded KSB auxiliary scholarship
• Ohio Booster Club plans fish fry
• New materials in at Franklin Grove library
• Time for a Ladies Night Out in Manlius
• honor roll
• Sump pump information available
• Whiteside 4-H members show off communications skills
• Alzheimer’s Association offers free caregivers program
• Coach's records under wraps
• Police still searching for stabbing suspect
• Last of hydroelectric plant work closes part of East Second
• Police warn residents about door-to-door sales
• Absentee voting under way, ends April 4
• Ohio union bill speeds toward passage
• Diversity in a Dixon church
• Man questioned in deaths of kids found in canal
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Abolish all Illinois public school districts? Not yet
• Spring break rocks in Waterloo
• Colo. boy, 12, faces charges in parents' killings
• Wis. Dems threatened with police action, layoffs
• Sheriff delays County Board meeting security measures
• Drop in jobless claims raises hopes for hiring
• Whiteside panel favors death penalty
• U.S. teens, young adults 'doing it' less, study says
• CLS to celebrate Lutheran Schools Week
• All are invited to fiesta for elderly Sterling woman
• Local lawmakers join House vote against new business tax rule
• Drop in jobless claims raises hopes for hiring
• Illinois jobless rate falls for 12th month
• Boy, 12, faces charges in parents' killings
• Astronauts relax, take in views after 2 spacewalks
• NU to investigate sex toy demonstration
• State's long-term pension debt jumps sharply
• How to get published in Showtime
• NIU Steelband to perform at Historic Dixon Theatre
• Lawmakers urge federal assistance for storm
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• 51st annual Hamfest returns Sunday
• Sauk Valley Community Concert Association turns 20
• Employers get nearly $41M for early retiree health
• Steve Jobs emerges from medical leave to unveil iPad 2
• House OKs measure to avert shutdown; Senate votes Wednesday
• Bivins bill aims for electronic check payments
• Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Switchback
• Drug defendant sues police, parole officers in federal court
• 2 US airmen killed in Frankfurt airport shooting
• Ohio Senate passes bill to restrict public unions
• Illinois ranks 8th nationally in green buildings
• Poker and bags tourney to benefit Granny Rose
• Bill to ban release of gun information stalls
• Sterling man wanted in Friday stabbing
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Illinois governor still backs Obama's health law
• Laid-off Cook County nurses shift into other jobs
• Trustee pleads not guilty to pornography
• Quinn defends call for merging school districts
• State Farm says 2010 profits more than doubled
• Whiteside may target workers’ phone use on job
• More gravel roads? Maybe
• Bernanke seeks to ease lawmakers' inflation fears
• Manufacturers see fastest monthly growth since 2004
• Madigan: State must release FOID card list
• Illinois investigates foster care agencies for discrimination
• No cell phones at county meetings
• Carroll County 2010 leader in state corn yield
• Local officials lobby for D.C. dollars
• Senate Dems agree to GOP bill to cut spending
• Blago juror names under wrap until day after trial
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Organizers cancel next week's Reagan workshop
• Atty. general: Illinois should release FOID card list
• Rock Falls Little League cuts fees; registration Saturday
• Baptist church to mark World Day of Prayer
• Tampico Lions serving pancake breakfast Sunday
• Rock Falls mayor to deliver State of the City address
• Suspect in stabbing sought
• Former Gov. Ryan explains why he emptied death row
• Parts of Morrison under boil order
• Quinn asks for federal disaster declaration
• Quinn declares 'Desert Storm Remembrance' day
• Minor flooding expected along Illinois River
• Weather causes another bump in the road
• Erie soldier coming home
• Ex-coach's license may be at risk
• Winter cleanup costs Whiteside County entities $300,000
• District open to merger
• Does county have money or not?
• Barbed wire inventor's DeKalb house for sale
• German Valley church serving dinner
• Bureau County dog wins at Westminster
• Police allow protesters to remain at Wisconsin Capitol
• GOP governors undermining Obama agenda
• Happy Tails sells some land, will move in March
• LaHood's son to replace Bureau County state senator
• Service with a smile
• Man gets 70 years in toddler's shaking death
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Ex-state troopers pleads guilty in cash bond thefts
• Dixon man indicted in daughter's death
• Please be advised: Dear Abby is here
• Curbside yard waste collection starts March 14
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Sauk Valley businesses move, expand
• Chili and soup dinner helps seniors
• Rock Falls Little League – 58 and going strong
• January Hall of Fame students chosen at Dixon High
• Scholarship created to honor 1957 SHS graduate
• Tucker Brady: Newman Student of the Month
• Changing our ingrained worldviews
• Know Your Neighbor
• Amboy grad to perform in Bulgaria
• Card and Bunco games in Amboy
• Pheasants Forever banquet at Elks Lodge
• Do you have a Civil War ancestor?
• Meet the Andersons
• Musicians, donors turn out to help homeless and fight cancer
• Soil and Water District having spring fish and tree sales
• Rock Falls student receives scholarship
• Sauk Valley arts groups receive grants
• PFLAG will share bishop's story
• Scholarship forms available from Rock River Valley VietNow
• Tunisians proud at sparking Arab rebellions
• Police warn public about grenades
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Sauk Commons mortgage under water
• Oregon's third mural a memory recreated
• Law enforcement volunteers wanted for Special Olympics fundraiser
• Glass house joined by 'mobile' home
• Advocates for disabled plan rally over budget cuts
• Audit criticizes state accounting systems
• School districts explore joining forces
• Oil prices send airfares skyward
• Relay for Life kickoff Tuesday
• Mexican drug gang suspects rounded up
• Food drive Monday at Casey's in Dixon
• Deadline nears for Ashford teacher scholarships, award
• Space shuttle Discovery launches on final voyage
• Saudi man charged with plotting terrorist attack
• Snow emergency in Rock Falls
• United Way surpasses goal
• Musicians to gather in Oregon
• Dinner, karaoke fundraiser at Mount Morris Moose
• Blood drive Tuesday in Oregon
• 2011 Campaign Calendar
• Our own Angelina ballerina
• Boards too big? Some think so
• Deadline for chamber scholarships is Tuesday
• Fighting cancer with a crochet hook
• Children's theatre does 'Pinocchio' with a twist
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Quinn announces funding cuts to addiction treatment
• FACT CHECK: Quinn job numbers not the whole story
• Gadhafi's vow: Will fight to 'last drop of blood'
• Oregon man accused of sexually abusing teen
• Reid proposes 30-day bill to avert shutdown
• 4 American hostages killed by pirates, US says
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Curl pleads not guilty to murder of NIU student
• Wisconsin lawmakers take up bill to cripple unions
• New Zealand earthquake death toll at 75 as search continues
• Dixon mayor criticized over finances
• New income potential for Dixon
• City will send M&D's transcript to the state
• Libya unrest hits home
• A bright idea
• Byron reaches accord with special ed co-op
• Sterling schools set to issue $7 million in repair bonds
• Judge reschedules hearing in Dixon heroin case
• Bond hearing today in child pornography case
• Rock Falls teacher/wrestling coach on leave
• Congressman Manzullo misses earthquake by hours
• Wisconsin lawmakers take up bill to cripple unions
• Friends mourn 4 US yachters killed by pirates
• Gadhafi goes on Libyan TV amid wave of protests
• Woman charged in death of 10-year-old girl
• Wis. gov. says he won't accept union compromise
• Dixon mayoral forum tonight
• Mideast chaos sends oil prices soaring
• Walnut 4-H having fundraiser breakfast
• States ignored warnings on unemployment insurance
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Truant Wisconsin lawmakers 'roughing it' in Illinois
• Two dead after crash in Sycamore
• Sauk Valley roads get slippery
• Driver dies, 10 seriously hurt after bus careens down mountainside
• Blagojevich defense seeks to suppress all undercover recordings at retrial
• Chicago mayor candidates wrap up campaigns
• Gas leak evacuates four Sterling homes
• Bunny battle brewing
• Blockbuster closing in Sterling
• Sterling firefighters respond to gas main break
• Looking for a credit card? It pays to be rich
• For compromise in Wis., 3 GOP senators are needed
• Minn. digs out, but more snow for states east
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Woman killed in Coleta house fire Monday
• Drew Peterson's son fired from police job
• Study finds many graphic YouTube self-harm videos
• Public meeting on Hennepin Canal restoration project coming to Rock Falls
• Cat survives being shot in head with arrow
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
• Texas poised to pass bill allowing guns on campus
• Pirates: Warship shadowing hijacked American yacht
• Afghans, NATO differ on number of dead
• Time runs short for Congress to head off budget impasse
• No injuries when freight train derails in Gurnee
• 12 taxi drivers, fares attacked, killed in Mexico
• Highland Park man charged with Taliban weapons deal
• App helps locate Girl Scout cookies
• Fire damages Dixon house
• 'Soundtrack of history'
• Bill would allow online public notices
• Dixon Main Street hosting historic district update
• Another winter hazard: City water main breaks
• Architect scatters his works
• Open For Business: Photography by Heather Lanell
• Pains and gains for Dixon business district
• Adult activities planned at Sterling library
• Lee/Ogle spellers will have national berth in mind
• Hospice volunteer training starts March 15
• ROE plans benefits conference
• Attending church might be good for your health
• Family gospel group coming Feb. 25 to Morrison church
• Waste reduction and recycling grants available
• Whiteside 4-H hosts party
• Jacob Becker, is AHS's December Student of the Month
• February activities scheduled at senior center
• FSA emergency loans available for storm, flood loss
• Extension offers CPR, first aid training
• Change is in the mail
• Lee/Ogle Office of Education sponsors spelling bee
• College news
• Catholic mission coming to Rochelle church
• Preschool registration gets under way
• Phidian art show in April
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Ducks Unlimited banquet set for Feb. 26 in Dixon
• Bahrain locked down after 5 aprotesters killed
• Whiteside sheriff reports another daytime home burglary
• Official: Special ed won't be hurt
• Deli and specialty ice cream shop coming to Sterling
• National closure now coming in July
• 51 apply for Morrison administrator
• County sticks to cleanup deadline
• Polo High students seeking grant for solar panels
• Seventh Oregon statue being cast in bronze
• Holly Sheley violates parole, is back in prison pending hearing
• How fast is a fastball? Find out at the museum
• Government shutdown? GOP, Democrats swap charges
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Security remains shaky in Egypt after revolt
• Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill
• Lights go out in Morrison to save money
• Quinn budget would add government employees
• Whiteside clinic sees more patients
• More than 100 medical professionals charged in Medicare scams
• Quinn budget would add government employees
• Government shutdown? GOP, Democrats swap charges
• Wisconsin lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill
• Police search backpacks after 'prank' bomb scare
• Memorial marks 10th anniversary of firefighters' deaths
• Street closure scheduled today, Friday in Rock Falls
• Prince of Peace plans benefit for sister church
• Girl Scouts expo Saturday at Northland
• Winter concert planned at Morrison High
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Spring craft show at Self Help
• Dixon doggie best of his breed
• World premiere of 'Reagan of Illinois' Saturday in Dixon
• Today's Logistics Council meeting canceled
• Sterling Plan Commission to finalize sign ordinance tonight
• Grain bin company contests fines
• Local Republicans see 'more of the same' from Quinn
• A regional exodus
• Many critics of Quinn's budget
• Political fight over Guantanamo won't die
• Educators ‘shocked’ by budget
• SalonCentric consolidating, company says
• Egyptian democracy advocate critical of military
• Study: Doctors order tests out of fear of lawsuits
• After tax hike, Quinn budget offers more pain
• County won't fund truck stop
• Teaching ag safety
• No cause yet in Morrison woman's death
• Mennonite youth breakfast fundraiser Sunday
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Comedy/talent show fundraiser Saturday
• Panel: FBI overstated science in anthrax probe
• Home insurance premiums predicted to rise this year
• Sex abuse survivor wants legislation to go national
• State lawmakers remember fallen Byron Marine
• Thomson 'still on track'
• Ind. launches $250K ad blitz for Ill. businesses
• Still home, sweet home
• Lee County wind farm moratorium expires
• SalonCentric closing in Dixon
• Derivatives business drives deal for NYSE
• Become a reading tutor at free workshop
• Send kids to school, security will be in place, Langloss says
• Morrison woman's body found next to bank
• GM to pay more than $400 million in worker bonuses
• Egypt demonstrations inspire other uprisings
• Most recalled medical devices had expedited safety reviews
• Clothing prices to rise 10 pct starting in spring
• Governor signs 'Erin's Law'
• Experts: Obama and GOP duck the big budget issues
• Four charged in Morrison motorcycle theft
• Previously secret pact released
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• State legislators react to Obama's budget
• Dixon Egyptian-American watches a revolution unfold
• Morrison city attorney resigns after nearly 40 years
• Honing their (air)craft
• NASA chief: Giffords welcome at husband's launch
• Proposed curfew, truancy laws on tonight's Rock Falls agenda
• Ill. state police director to go to another agency
• Downtown bakery closes after 80 years
• Morrison decides not to reduce police force
• Obama administration seeks emergency financial package for Egypt
• Scholarship recipients move NIU 'Forward'
• Valentine dance, crowning of a queen Saturday at LASC
• Flow testing set for Tuesday in Dixon
• Some Walnut-area residents oppose wind farm
• Byron Middle School headed to state MATHCOUNTS competition
• Dixon Main Street names its volunteers of the year
• Morrison clinic expansion complete, open house ahead
• Area lawmakers urge pension fix
• Sterling trucker describes rescue
• Ogle offers $15 adult flu shots Wednesday
• Renewing their vows
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Lawmakers to Quinn: Show us your cards
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Quilters guild meets Tuesday in Fulton
• Lady A wins record, song of year at the Grammys
• Financial aid assistance available Sunday at Sauk
• NIU to honor those killed in shooting
• Police investigating Morrison woman's death
• The Pastor's Corner
• students
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Preserve plans animal murder mystery
• Trivia night fundraiser planned in Fulton
• Honor roll
• Newman diver sets record Jan. 22 at East Moline competition
• Shamrock Club celebrates with parade and food
• Crafters needed for craft show
• Health screenings this week to Morrison hospital
• Montmorency schedules kindergarten registration
• Lincoln Highway essay contest deadline is Feb. 24
• Scholarship applications due to Arc of Lee County
• AARP driving course offered Feb. 17-18
• Dixon Habitat for Humanity accepting applications
• Area students to go on Augustana Choir tour
• Who owns the land for truck stop?
• Branson variety show coming to Sterling
• Dec. SOM DHS Guenther
• Illinois Sheriffs' Association offering scholarships
• Egyptians in US already looking toward the future
• Spaghetti supper, book sale Saturday
• Chance of flooding next week
• Birthday open house canceled
• Striking up support
• Busch girlfriend had lethal doses of cocaine, oxycodone; no prosecution planned
• Feel the romance of a walk in the woods
• US leaders welcome Mubarak's resignation
• Registration due for cross-country skiing in Byron
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Democracy protests bring down Egypt's Mubarak
• The Gipper's stamp of approval
• Ill. gov.'s police pick on verge of getting job
• Athlete who survived crash charged with assault
• Health department: 'This is the last chance'
• Senior center upset with budget cut
• Truck stop deal concerns tea party
• Fewest requests for unemployment aid since 2008
• Lions on area's endangered list
• Era of super-low mortgage rates appears to be over
• Egypt's Mubarak stays in post, hands powers to VP
• Obama promotes plan for near universal wireless
• Higher food prices ahead after corn reserves sink
• Flea market back at Bureau County Fairgrounds
• Loving the arts with your valentine
• Valentine's dance, pool tournaments coming to senior center
• Making up for snow days
• Singles dance Saturday in Sterling
• Stress strategies for Alzheimer's caregivers available
• Registration due for free estate planning seminar
• New state website lists Civil War anniversary events
• Feds: Mobster fugitive captured in Idaho
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Chicago mayor, airlines can't reach airport deal
• Seriously injured, abruptly deported
• Wash. boy, 10, suffocates in box of packing peanuts
• Train travel building steam
• Whiteside sheriff has no pre-hiring physical test
• Oscar nominee to portray Reagan
• Opposition to truck stop deal growing
• Rumsfeld reveals prewar Iraq strike plan
• Internet textbook dealer buys historic Mount Morris building
• Government: No electronic flaws in Toyotas
• Polo considers overnight parking ban
• Crash closes I-39
• Officials question truck stop deal
• Doctor: Goal for Giffords to see husband's launch
• As Eastern snow melts, it's leaving an ugly mess
• Panel: Don't extend wind farm moratorium
• Judge tours new Calif. lethal injection chamber
• Fulton boy charged in arson appears in court
• Prosecutor: WikiLeaks' Assange dodged Swedish investigators
• It's not all ill wind
• Police get tips on mom of baby found in toilet
• Fulton schools pay only $10,000 asbestos fine
• Facebook CEO obtains restraining order against alleged stalker
• Teen with cancer risks her life to give birth
• Egypt officials seek to gain control over events; protesters vow to keep pressure on
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• AP IMPACT: At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions
• From basketball court to high court
• Illinois fiscal officers look beyond party lines
• Madigan sues to stop convicted ex-cop's pension
• Oil dynasty scion J. Paul Getty III dies at 54
• Former Dixon councilwoman returns to post
• State tax amnesty 
program tops 
revenue estimates
• Fulton candidate files complaints
• District 13 to declare snow days
• Trivia bowl and kid's corner at Sterling library
• Obama a business booster in Chamber of Commerce speech
• Snow cleanup costs trickle in
• Free Dixon High concert Sunday
• Mount Morris man gets prison time for Carroll County school break-ins
• Reagan documentary to air Wednesday
• Health care fraud
• Sterling man saves trucker's life
• Traffic being diverted on I-39
• Rock Falls city office phone lines down
• Two weeks of turmoil
• WikiLeaks' Assange faces extradition hearing in UK
• Reagan centennial endowment reaches $100M
• 2 children dead in southwest Illinois house fire
• 'Ronnie would be thrilled'
• Annual Stupor Bowl a trivia challenge
• Emergency parking today and Tuesday in Dixon
• Hundreds pay homage to Dutch
• 'Everywhere he went, he brought change'
• Reagan legacy weighed amid 100th birthday events
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Reservations due for Green Bay trip
• A super day to have a Bridal Fair
• How do I know God loves me?
• Senior Ashley A. Wolfe, 18, is Dixon High
• Church hosting Super Bowl party
• Lee Council on Aging sponsoring shopping trip, foot clinic
• Honor Roll
• Ogle County Hospice having movie night
• Foot care clinic available to senior citizens
• Goodwill promotes tax credit, offers free tax services
• Genealogical Society to present program on Native Americans
• State handbell festival March 26 in Springfield
• Dixon's most important Reagan memento
• Manlius firefighters have January meeting
• Reagan Middle School students donate to Veterans Memorial Park
• Book sale coming Feb. 19 to Dixon church
• Mike Scanlan
• Scholarship applications due April 1 to community trust
• Pratt re-elected to 1st Farm board
• Oregon student elected Key Club officer
• Daniel Robinson: December Student of the Month
• Star Road temporary fix done
• Bernanke: More jobs needed for real recovery
• Chili-soup dinner postponed
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Unemployment falls to 9 pct., nearly 2-year low
• It's all about mummies
• Dixon father charged in infant's death
• Cairo square chaos intensifies, violence spreads
• Tens of thousands march against Yemen's president
• Blood supplies hit hard; donations needed
• Clearing the way
• Schilling proposes pizza summit with Obama
• M&D's to stay open until appeal to state heard
• Mitsubishi to announce plans for Illinois plant
• Senators criticize FBI, Army in Fort Hood tragedy
• Report: Bulk of insurance premiums for health care
• Official: Chicago airports near normal operations
• Bernanke: More jobs needed for real recovery
• Vodafone: Egypt forced us to send text messages
• Mubarak says he fears chaos if he quits now
• Bitter cold, destruction in wake of mammoth storm
• Dixon father charged in infant's death
• A White Wednesday for local shoppers
• CNN's Anderson Cooper attacked by pro-Mubarak mob in Cairo
• White House: Mubarak has chance to show who he is
• Times are changed for today's Reagan book-signing
• Digging out
• Free asset-building workshop coming up
• Valentine's dinner coming Feb. 12 to Brandywine
• Oregon eyes elementaries consolidation
• Chicago’s food fest to remain free
• Route 2 work to begin April 1
• Senate Republicans lose vote on health law
• Chicago, Illinois laid low by massive snowstorm
• Storms across the nation hit hard
• A fearful, frigid night on Lake Shore Drive
• Health scorecard finds room to improve in Illinois
• Mubarak backers attack anti-government protesters
• NASA spots 54 potentially life-friendly planets
• Principal shot, killed at California elementary school
• Chicago, Illinois laid low by massive snowstorm
• 1 man, 2 women, dead after hostage situation
• Sharpshooters to cull Will County deer from forest preserves
• GOP targets health care law
• Missing boy's body found
• Egypt's Mubarak says won't run for new term
• State Supreme Court orders stay in tax ruling
• Cancer drug under scrutiny
• Analysis: Turmoil in Egypt will reshape U.S. role
• Warming souls, bodies
• State road closures
• Byron officer faces child porn charges in Wisconsin
• Life-threatening blizzard socks the Sauk Valley
• State tax returns running on schedule
• Blood supplies low because of severe weather
• Pinecrest wins its request for property tax relief
• Businesses prepare for storm
• Teens found in house had BACs of 0.30, police say
• Anniversary of cold case stirs some interest
• Missing your paper?
• Dixon National Guard activated during winter storm
• Find your Family Request
• Polo chamber needs prom dress donations
• Morrison business owner starts lunch fund for needy students
• Bone-jarrring: Lincolnway potholes go from bad to worse
• Shumard: 2011 is the year of the unknown
• Dixon city commissioner Kelly dies
• Blizzard bears down on region
• Basking in spotlight
• Caterpillar workers authorize strike if needed
• Some residents may see lower power rates
• Bowl-A-Thon to raise funds in Sterling
• Rock Falls to consider citywide curfew and truancy laws
• Setting up health insurance exchanges, states face big decisions
• Judge rules Obama health care law unconstitutional
• Huckabee: Israel can build in West Bank, Jerusalem
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Egyptian protesters plan march to Mubarak's doorstep
• Suspect indicted in murder of NIU student
• More than 100 rally in central Illinois
• Shabonna woman to finish Burzynski's Senate term
• Clinton: Egypt must transition to democracy
• Egyptian reform leader calls for Mubarak to resign
• Civil unions become legal today
• Car burglars hit northeast Dixon
• Lee Democrats party at Freedom Ball
• Blizzard on the way
• M&D's open again
• Reservations due Friday for 'Martini Gras'
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Some say charge it; others don't
• Bake sale, tablescape contest at Mount Morris library
• Senior center opens in Fulton
• Mount Morris senior center offering June trip to Washington, D.C.
• Rock Falls library offering February programs
• Morrison library offering computer clases starting Feb. 7
• It's time for free throw fun
• Walnut library starts new programs, reschedules group
• Iowa State University AMES, Iowa – Jessic
• 1/29 honor rolls
• Kids donate prayer hats for preemies
• Growing a business
• SVCC hosts workshops, classes for community
• Book sale set for Feb. 11, 12, and 14 at Polo library
• SVCC offers personal training certification program
• Monroe Center firefighters offer all-you-can-eat breakfast Feb. 6
• Photography boot camp set for Feb. 19 at Next Picture Show
• Covered Bridge Quilters to meet Feb. 3 in Princeton
• Common sense strategies to weight loss in 2011
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Julia Jones
• IEA Retired Teachers to sponsor tax workshop
• Mitchell fears budget deficit, state pension crisis could hurt education
• Obama seeks new path to environmental goals
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Morrison crime rate low, figures show
• Program shows history can be sweet
• ElBaradei returns to Egypt as more protests loom
• Proposed sign ordinance concerns small businesses
• Dixon teens found in strange home, intoxicated
• Menards shoots for Feb. 15 opening
• Panel cites roots of meltdown, but does it matter?
• House GOP considers privatizing Medicare
• Dixon bar part of FBI raid
• Illinois state treasurer has twofold plan to ensure state's economic viability
• Caterpillar's 4Q profit quadruples as sales soar
• Mount Morris man gets probation in school break-ins
• Meeting tonight on proposed signage changes
• Year-to-year jobless drops locally, statewide
• Ex-gov's wife released from hospital
• Woman dies in Carroll County crash
• Officials: County has money for truck stop
• First Fridays show at Oregon VFW
• Enjoy the tropics at Discovery Center
• Second City Chorus looking for new members
• Social Security fund now seen to be empty by 2037
• Woman robbed, locked in closet for almost 3 days
• Deficit projected to hit $1.5 trillion
• Second Look provides 
first-rate prom dresses
• Court throws out liquor taxes, video gambling
• Ogle County state representative Burzynski retiring
• Pharmacy closing over birth control dispute
• Facebook to let advertisers republish user posts
• Polo Police looking for flasher
• Dixon native edits Lincoln book
• Dixon prison guard sentenced in phone smuggling
• Morrison plant to close
• Home prices dip in America's largest cities
• Police lack leads in Whiteside burglaries
• Official: Loan fund money accounted for
• Bloody battle in Polo Thursday
• IDOT official: No new lights in sight for East Lincolnway corridor
• Obama: 'Move together or not at all'
• Bouncing back from elections, Obama appeals for unity
• Quinn signs Medicaid reform into Illinois law
• Official: Wind farm didn't hurt home values
• Local legislators react
• No foul play in woman's drowning, Oregon police say
• Amboy woman set to plea in embezzlement case
• Ogle administrator takes Rochelle city post
• Sheley brother guilty of aggravated fleeing
• Unemployment rises in 20 states last month
• Board to hear Pinecrest appeal
• Grain company fined $618,125 in bin fatalities
• Online and outdated
• Coroner IDs victim of fatal Rockford shooting
• Oprah Winfrey finds sister she didn't know she had
• Bombing at Moscow airport called terrorist attack
• An American wish list on eve of Obama's speech
• Morrison without credit cards
• House GOP leader says no to federal bailout of states
• Colbert will speak at Northwestern commencement
• Supreme Court says state prisoners have no constitutional right to parole
• New Jersey governor looks to attract Illinois businesses
• Obama announces initiative to support military families
• Illinois town faces economic challenges
• Appeals court throws Emanuel off Chicago mayoral ballot
• Donations help Kiwanis buy kids coats
• National Archives says historian tampered with Lincoln pardon
• Tunisia nudges Arab world out of its hopelessness
• Suspect pleads not guilty in deadly Arizona shooting
• Mom gets 15 years for scalding son in tub
• Social Security topic of free forum
• Renovations 
get going 
at Cole Hall
• GOP plan steams Dems
• Ducks Unlimited annual banquet nears
• Sauk Valley Tea Party sets this year's meeting
• Sterling Main Street raises $4,000 with holiday CD
• Sterling man gets jail, probation in mall burglary
• Police: WIU student ate, wouldn't evacuate
• No one running for 2 Tampico seats
• U.N. rebukes nations 
for deporting refugees
• Walnut library reschedules book discussion
• Tea partiers say defense in mix for budget cuts
• Reservations due for Reagan lunch, tea
• Pair of Sunday shootings leave 6 wounded, 2 dead
• Indiana groups work to lure business from Illinois
• At Obama's midpoint, an altered State of the Union
• Report: No deaths after bridge barrier installed
• Bad news, Bears fans
• New species of giant crawfish found in Tennessee
• East Coast tired of snow
• Open for Business: How Sweet It Is
• Lee County United Way surpasses goal
• Doctor: Transfer of Giffords to Houston flawless
• School district may drop cheerleading, sports
• South Korean forces storm hijacked ship, free hostages
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter won't lead SCLC
• Obama taps GE's Immelt in another outreach to business
• Bob Michel VA clinic to open Monday
• Silence returns to schools, at least for a moment
• Schilling pushes cuts, but not for Rock Island
• Schilling won’t be moved by district’s boundaries
• Dreamliner jet weighs Boeing with delays, costs
• Open for Business
• 'We didn't do this'
• Caterpillar urges stronger U.S.-China trade ties
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• U.S. company to halt production of key lethal-injection drug
• Signs of changes ahead
• China’s president visits Windy City
• Sauk, like other colleges, forced to assess threats
• New Tunisian government upbeat after first meeting
• House GOP indicates where its health care plan may go
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• New legislative proposals tackle variety of issues
• Man says abuse by ex-Chicago cop still haunts him
• Man dies after crash with Amtrak train
• Dixon Fire Department secures grant
• Return of independent voters lifts Obama's standing
• Obama ramping up 2012 re-election campaign
• Home sales hit 13-year low; slow recovery ahead
• Mitsubishi plans new model for Ill. plant
• 2 officers, suspect killed during Miami shootout
• More than 120 busted in Northeast Mafia crackdown
• How much risk does radiation on planes pose?
• New drama in old rivalry
• Rep. Giffords leaves Tucson for rehab in Houston
• Benefit set Saturday for Polo woman fighting cancer
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Sculpting fun from the winter elements
• Hospice of Rock River Valley launches revamped website
• Irishfest set for March 12 at Brandywine
• Reagan lunch and tea set for Feb. 4
• Lee County Sheriff Reserve Association elects officers
• Stillman Valley students learn about pigs
• Woosung post office changes hours
• Farmers can sign up for SURE payments
• Registration open for Ashford trip to London in March
• Ice fishing planned at preserve
• University of Tennessee MARTIN, Tenn. –
• Goodwill offering free tax prep services
• Lee County senior center to have book sale Feb. 3-4
• Playhouse sponsors trip to 'Mama Mia!'
• Y offers recreational program for teens with autism
• Honor Roll
• Gallery announces exhibit winners
• Volunteers sought for cancer society's daffodil sale
• Whiteside Soil and Water Conservation District dinner set for Jan. 28
• Rock River Center offering tax preparation starting Feb. 1
• School honors
• Sen. Joe Lieberman says he will retire in 2012
• Worldwide unemployment is about 7 percent, new Gallup survey finds
• Veteran service officer available in Whiteside, Lee counties
• Tampico may double water rates
• Broadband work to start this summer
• Crystal Cork announces 11th quarterly show
• Museum to feature famous German U-boat expert
• Reagan birthday dinner planned
• Illinois’ senators to sit together during speech
• Husky dogsled event returns to Lisle
• Suicides jump sharply among Army reservists, guardsmen
• Hispanic Film Festival begins Wednesday
• Official: Federal judge helped save man's life
• Titanic exhibit coming to Quad Cities
• Alabama governor apologizes for remarks on Christians
• Service providers say state bond sale needed
• Obama presses human rights to China's Hu
• Judge gives former Ill. sheriff life in prison
• Supreme Court limits privacy rights of federal contract workers
• Jimmy John's could head to Florida
• House nears vote to repeal health care law
• Obama says he would go to Super Bowl if Bears play
• Illinois, Wisconsin governors wager on Bears-Pack
• Family: Giffords will move to Houston rehab center
• Lieberman announces he will retire in 2012
• Clinton endorses Emanuel
• Obama orders review of rules to boost economy
• Obama, Hu spar over human rights, hail econ ties
• 2 wounded at LA school when gun in backpack fires
• Duvalier accused of corruption, embezzlement
• Dick Cheney says he might seek heart transplant
• Comcast-NBC deal approved
• Police warn of men using stolen credit cards
• Boeing delays 787 delivery until at least July
• Rockford trucker dies in Ogle County
• Shriver, 1 of last links to JFK White House, dies
• Dixon, 3 others, put electric issue on April 5 ballot
• Lee, Ogle to vote on new elementary school
• Truck stop to get $1.3M from county?
• Local towns work together, get involved
• Deep layoffs take effect in struggling NJ city
• LA school district says 2 wounded in shooting
• Violence-scarred Tunisia announces new government
• Experts doubt claims health care law is a 'job killer'
• Sterling moving along with rehab program
• Apple CEO Steve Jobs to take another medical leave
• January activities at Stone Quarry in Byron
• 'Baby Doc' adds new twist to Haiti latest woes
• King's peace legacy praised after shootings
• Bill Clinton to campaign in Chicago for Emanuel
• Stupor Bowl trivia contest needs teams
• Giffords update: Husband says wife smiled and gave him neck rub
• Think China has big stake in U.S. business? Not yet
• Packers-Bears game tickets available, but pricey
• Western Illinois University picks new president
• Student tracking finds limited learning in college
• Failure to pay 60-cent toll leads to drug charges
• Rock Falls council set to vote on next step in riverfront redevelopment
• Tuesday's postponements
• Recent burglaries have similarities
• Visa scam targets the Dixon area
• Tax credit is incentive to hire temporary workers
• Snow emergencies in Sterling, Rock Falls
• King's peace legacy praised after Ariz. shootings
• 'Social Network' friends Globes with 4 prizes
• Rock Falls woman wins peace award
• Husband: Giffords smiled and gave him neck rub
• Chancellor: SIUC enrollment increase could take years
• Meese, others tour Reagan's old stomping grounds
• Food stamp, food pantry use increases in Illinois
• Two bars burglarized: information sought
• Court Call
• Kohl's begins hiring for 130 part-time jobs
• Reagan statue planned in Tampico
• Polluted Bureau County village fighting to rescue lake
• Health departments shave budgets
• More to story on official's departure
• Open for Business: SunnySide Cafe
• Politics on the mind
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• REVIEW: A distant, moving portrait of 'Dutch'
• Industrial production rises by most in 5 months
• Help in short supply after deadly Brazil mudslides
• Clinton man pleads guilty to multiple burglaries
• Deere CEO pay soars in 1st full year in top job
• Ogle administrator decides to step down
• Hanging up the mailbag
• Still living 'the dream'
• Giffords' breathing tube might be removed Saturday
• Moment of silence back in effect in Illinois schools
• Fund manager accused of threatening to kill regulators
• Old pics of sister-in-law lead to child porn case
• Security tight at funeral for slain Arizona judge
• Gov't and AIG announce plan to end federal stake
• Kirk: Federal spending a top issue, should be cut
• Arizona stands by Gifford
• Illinois' attorney general seeks a ban on crib bumpers
• Texas governor slams Illinois tax hike
• FDA orders lower doses in prescription painkillers
• Moment of silence may return to schools
• Legislature OKs tax hike to fund nursing home safety
• Major milestone: Wounded Giffords moves arms, legs
• Over 1 million Americans seen losing homes in 2011
• EIU says package found not a threat
• Chugga-chugga-choo-choo
• Barajas gets back into economic development
• Sauk student from Dixon wins $1,000 Kiwanis scholarship
• Sterling student works on women's magazine at UW-Madison
• Carroll County 4-H briefs
• Jacob Landis: December Student of the Month
• Catholic Church offering soup Sunday in Walnut
• Keeping winter landscape colorful
• Pastor's Corner
• Main Street Lunch and Learn to kick off new year
• Free breakfast available at Dixon Senior Center
• New book discussion group to meet in Walnut
• Hosts sought for Ogle Fields Project
• Forreston Friskies 4-H club news
• Thyroid screenings available Jan. 27 in Mendota
• Fourth-graders learn about viscosity, fluids
• Dessert auction a benefit for disabled children
• Chamber searches for Fulton’s greatest love story
• Dixon library announces new releases
• Professional women's network plans luncheon
• Coleta resident receives scholarship from Royal Neighbors
• Stocks dip after unemployment applications rise
• Brett Favre's sister arrested in Miss. meth bust
• Texas governor slams Illinois tax hike
• At congresswoman's bedside, good news keeps coming
• 9/11 flag unfurled, raised at Ariz. girl's funeral
• New England digs out from winter storm
• One of nation's top Nordic choir's to perform in Rockford
• Monster Jam to invade Rockford MetroCentre
• Man sentenced to 48 months for bilking Cisco of $15.4 million
• Bill to abolish death penalty awaits Illinois governor
• Creation science series for kids starts Tuesday
• United Way narrowly misses $710,000 goal
• Subdivision charged for emergency response
• Irish Heritage Society plans St. Patrick's Day bash
• Lunch and tea to celebrate Reagan's birthday
• Free MLK Day kids camp Monday
• Evening of reflection at The Canticle
• Quad Cities teens prepare for show choir competition
• Longtime hat collector has exhibit in Princeton
• Reservations due for Tampico's Regan dinner
• Wine-tasting and auction at Freeport Art Museum
• Haiti marks solemn anniversary, 1 year since quake
• Officials: Frenetic morning for rampage suspect
• Missouri officials look to gain from Illinois tax increases
• Chinese president's US visit includes Chicago
• Wisconsin governor uses Illinois tax increase to bolster his state
• Lower corn and soybean output sends prices surging
• Bill to abolish death penalty awaits governor
• Officers stopped suspect on day of Ariz. shooting
• Census: Long-distance moves in U.S. hit record low
• New agreement reached on developmentally disabled
• Tucson suspect's troubles didn't keep him from gun
• Local events will honor King
• FDA helps states get execution drug
• Embezzlement prosecution proceeding slowly
• Man convicted in fatal beating of Chicago teen
• Future of Mount Morris up for discussion
• Nearly 200 pounds of marijuana found in vehicle
• Family of shooting suspect speaks
• Verizon to start selling iPhone on Feb. 10
• Politics of a shooting prompts search for civility
• Quinn gets final say on death penalty repeal
• Late-night debate on big tax hike
• Suspect in Arizona shooting held without bail
• Tate pleads not guilty to firearm charge
• Volt wins North American Car of the Year; Explorer is top truck
• Another stop for free bus rides for seniors
• 1996 murder remains unsolved
• Illinois income tax hike plan still up in the air
• GE pays Morrison $650,000
• Quinn sworn in amid daunting budget crisis
• Fire destroys vacant Rock Falls home, damages another
• It's not too late
• Bond set Monday for Dixon drug defendants
• Area congressmen condemn colleague's shooting
• Albany American Legion holding membership caravan Friday
• Violence breaks out by Sudan's north-south border
• China, U.S. agree to take steps to heal military rift
• Arizona tragedy gives Congress a moment to pause
• DeLay gets 3 years in prison for conspiracy
• Washington somber after shock of shooting
• Dixon man charged with aggravated sex abuse
• Court denies ex-Gov. George Ryan's bail request
• 'Band of Brothers' inspiration Winters dies at 92
• Verizon big winner from having iPhone? Not so fast
• Weather causes flight cancelations in Atlanta
• Judge sentences Tom DeLay to 3 years in prison
• Congresswoman raises 2 fingers, gives thumbs-up
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Crime-free housing the goal for rentals
• Building damaged on 9/11 finally coming down
• No progress made on income tax hike
• Rep. Gutierrez endorses Chico for Chicago mayor
• Princeton to Bureau County: Consider wind farm moratorium carefully
• Quinn sworn in as governor amid budget crisis
• Dixon's Tangibles ditching bricks and mortar, moving to the Web
• Economy forces Nikos' to call it quits
• Former Dixon sports writer new director of Red Cross Rock River chapter
• Ogle board emphasizes open channels
• PetSmart taking applications in advance of April opening
• Dixon men face multiple drug charges
• Second riverfront workshop ahead
• Court Call
• Primp Your Pet moves to larger locale
• Mount Morris has its 'town mascot' back
• Rough road to travel in Sterling
• VFW may be forced to abandon its post
• Weighing the merits of the death penalty
• Dixon snowmobile trails marked
• Each day’s another milestone for Dixon teen
• Senate chief's son pleads guilty to DUI in state car
• De Jesus pulls out of Chicago mayoral race
• Public using stronger open records laws
• A pause before big tax push
• Prosecutors say Ryan visited ill wife
• Heil hound: Nazis dogged by Hitler-mocking mutt
• Not just for seniors anymore
• House takes first step toward health care repeal
• Quick strides for China's military
• Feds say too much fluoride in water
• Employment grows, but slowly
• Sperling named to economic post
• Sisters who will share kidney are freed from prison
• NYC overprepares for new snow
• Witness says Jackson's doctor gathered meds
• Salvage yard seeks more time for cleanup
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Body found in park confirmed as NIU student
• Showdown looms over raising the nation's debt limit
• Orphan trains topic of Sunday program
• Gates' budget plan would shrink Army, Marines
• Rubio asks for lesser sentence
• Ag co-op buys local terminal
• Blues concert to benefit Byron scholarship fund
• Obama chooses Daley as chief of staff
• Explosives in Maryland state buildings cause evacuation
• Whiteside's United Way annual goal within reach
• Quilt guild to meet Jan. 17 in Forreston
• Herb Day is Jan. 22 in Urbana
• Tillage seminars to be offered
• Ice-skating derby scheduled for Jan. 15
• Kreider offering electronics recycling
• Oil painting workshop set for Feb. 12 in Dixon
• Pastor's Corner
• Kelsie Vaile Ashton Franklin Center September SOM
• Megan Patterson Polo High School's October Student of the Month
• Ogle Couny 4-Hers recognized for 2010 accomplishments
• West Carroll FFA places 18th at State Agronomy Contest
• Know Your Neighbor -- Amber Woodyatt
• Sterling teacher gets money for laptops
• Alzheimer’s Association presents program on meaningful activities
• Firemen host blood drive in Mount Morris
• military
• Polo Evening Women's Club hosts meetings
• Master Gardener training offered in Oregon
• Airport has new flights to Florida from Moline
• Kishwaukee College student exhibition opens Monday
• Princeton celebrates as Lovejoy turns 200
• Morrison keeps agreement with GE secret
• Pinecrest appealing denial of tax break
• A new way of doing business in DC
• Friends of the Hennepin Canal honored
• Private companies went on hiring spree in December
• Christian rock band coming to Mendota coffee house
• Dixon drowning ruled accidental
• Beat the winter blues with music and art
• Wine and beer tasting event Jan. 15 in Dixon
• More than 200 exhibitors on tap for Quad Cities farm show
• Oregon's First Fridays launches 2011 season
• Car burns in Rock Falls
• Flute Day planned at IVCC
• Comedy tour stopping at The Depot
• Botanical Center to present Accessory Swap Meet
• General Electric must pay state for mess
• Mount Morris use of Oregon park programs a success
• Researcher uses modified yeast to make ethanol
• Free week at Shedd Aquarium
• Gambling tweaks designed to mollify existing casinos
• 2 percent state income tax hike on table for state officials' meeting
• Sentencing set for man in Amboy school break-in
• Washington Elementary students compete in geography bee
• Texan declared innocent after 30 years in prison
• Choreographer: Jackson was sick days before death
• Kohl's taking applications, setting up interviews
• 14th Congressional District back in GOP hands
• Butt call brings in SWAT team
• Prison for Cubs fan who kicked Sox fan in face
• Prophetstown road to stay closed
• Democrats brace for tea party's influence
• 10-year redistricting plan heads to governor
• Judge leaves Emanuel on Chicago ballot
• Dems lean toward tax increase
• CGH-Sterling Rock Falls Clinic merger finalized
• Bemis back in the GM business
• Volunteers, donors help Dixon's new homeless shelter get set up
• Morrison still has no city administrator
• Rock Falls mayor makes his return
• Illinois Democrats edging toward vote on tax increase
• Study suggests Illinois cigarette tax to be raised $1
• Authorities find body of Ransom woman
• House GOP hopes to repeal 'Obamacare'
• Alex: Happy to be back
• 13 companies allowed to resume drilling
• Rock Falls mayor needs more medical leave
• Racy videos raise questions about Navy culture
• Residents protest Star Road closure
• Computer research helped crime decline, police says
• Housing availability varies greatly
• Foster looks back
• Stricter sign rules wanted in Sterling: Officials aim to beautify the city
• Legislators count noses for lame-duck vote on income tax hike
• 'Blunt wraps' ban will get Ill. House debate
• White supremacist goes on trial in Internet-threat case
• Braun says she will release tax returns
• PADS wins its rezoning request
• Steele touts record as RNC chairman as rivals vow change
• Obama may name Bill Daley to top job
• New, stricter consequences for Illinois speeders
• Senator proposes permanent US bases in Afghanistan
• War hero’s tour: A humble soldier adapts to fame
• Agent: Exhaustion cut Chuck Berry's show short
• Central Illinois tornado's winds hit 136 mph
• GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election
• Chicago may get temporary Korean War museum
• Lee County Farm Bureau plans bus trip to Chicago
• Court Call
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Joliet saves the Queen
• Father, son going to Iraq – together
• Braun's race for mayor now gets more attention
• New comics begin today
• Body believed to be mom missing since crash
• Government gets back in gear
• Investigation into Euclid fire continues
• New year, new life
• Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf post small December sales
• New Ill. law pushes 'fair' taxes on mobile homes
• Millions gather worldwide to ring in new year
• Ethics, driving among new laws in 2011
• 2010 ends on high note for investors
• 2010: A quake, a meltdown, a dramatic rescue
• Final goodbye: A roll call of some who died in '10
• Hope, miracles highlight year
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Explosion hits Egypt church, injuries reported
• Bomb explodes at army barracks in Nigeria
• Karzai keeps minister considered corrupt by U.S.
• BC-US--Tornadoes,9th Ld-Writethru
• See all of Illinois' new laws
• Sister's kidney donation condition of Miss. parole
• Assange vows to release all files in case of death or incarceration
• Russia to keep Khodorkovsky in prison until 2017
• Quinn signs new pension law
• Wendy's beats the clock in Dixon
• Murkowski certified winner of Alaska Senate race
• UN: Forces obstruct Ivory Coast mass grave probe
• Roadside bomb kills 14 civilians aboard minibus in Afghanistan
• Top crime stories in 2010
• Chocolate calls for celebration
• Chicago area shakes to mild earthquake in Indiana
• Official calls for probe of prison's workers' comp
• O'Donnell: Spending accusations are 'thug' tactics
• Former Israeli President Katsav convicted in rape case
• Former Thomson guard sues
• Slim-n-Hank’s expands in purchase of Varga’s
• New Life eyeing new home
• Windmill cultural center offering programs on Wednesdays in Fulton
• Fulton millers offering Reagan programs starting Jan. 13
• Dairy summit to addresses strategic solutions
• Pastor's Corner
• Illinois food banks receive $1.2 million
• Illinois History Expo will feature Ronald Reagan awards
• Ogle Extension offers crops webinar
• Ogle 4-H Federation throws holiday party
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren celebrate Christmas
• Beekeeping workshop to be Jan. 9 in Byron
• Applications available for Arc of Lee County scholarships
• Manlius Fire Department meets
• Results announced in Fulton Christmas Run/Walk
• '57 Girls to meet in Dixon
• Ogle County 4-Hers recognized for outstanding achievements
• Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year
• Gulf oil spill voted top news story of 2010
• Polo church reschedules holiday cantata
• Dr. Seuss musical to make run at Paramount
• Religious scholar to speak at Augustana
• Ogle teens will mulch Christmas trees
• Hawaii's governor wants to reveal Obama birth info
• Ald. Frank Edwards named interim Springfield mayor
• Snowblowers offer winter help, but blades pose hazard
• Fire chaplain calls fallen man 'a true hero'
• Homeless twins: Safer on street than in family
• Congressman to Clinton: Stay out of Chicago politics
• Dixon 'borrows' $679,000 to meet year-end bill obligations
• Game on! Asbestos abatement complete in Dixon High School gym
• Donations sought for Operation Support Our Troops
• Blago verdict topped state news
• New first-class stamps are 'forever'
• No one injured in Dixon house fire Monday morning
• Bond set at $50,000 in gas station theft
• NY struggles to dig out; passengers still stranded
• Watercolor classes begin Monday at TNPS
• Family: 5 dead in Fla. motel were like brothers
• Bivins: Cut spending to fix budget
• Quinn considers plan to borrow billions of dollars
• Illinois gets $14.9M for insuring more children
• More than 1,700 unscheduled travelers at O'Hare
• Solar-powered drone stays aloft for two weeks, breaking endurance records
• GOP hopefuls find some issues a hazard early on
• Quinn floats $15 billion debt recovery plan
• More farmers markets expand to year-round
• Illinois sprouts linked to salmonella, but farmer protests
• Twin suicide bombings in western Iraq kill 14
• East Coast storm cancels flights in Chicago
• Gaming no fast cure for state finances
• NASA's Ares rocket dead, but Congress lets you pay $500 million more for it
• Amboy man charged in Rock Falls Shell theft
• Sterling Christmas tree collection coming up
• Iran to let families visit jailed German reporters
• 'No one goes without food'
• Winter creates more problems
• Stepfather suspected of duct-taping, beating child
• Grain bin 
accident investigation continues
• Peoria investigates 22 homicides of 2010
• Publisher confirms Julian Assange book deal
• Bill Clinton to campaign for mayoral candidate Emanuel
• Booth descendants agree to exhume brother's body
• What's next for immigration?
• Chamber names Next Picture Show its business of the year
• Court Call
• Daley now Chicago mayor longer than his dad
• Juries giving marijuana defendants a pass
• Simon gets ready for Springfield
• Monster Northeast storm cancels Chicago flights
• 'A mix of cooperation and conflict'
• Nation/World Briefs
• Dead Chicagoans don't vote, but living have tricks
• Rockford airport offers direct flights to Mexico
• Fighting epilepsy
• Official: Many IL spas don't comply with standards
• Public's role in riverfront stressed
• Support Groups and Clubs
• Dress Code
• 2 injured in bomb blasts at Swiss, Chilean embassies in Rome
• Kremlin hails Senate's approval of nuclear treaty
• Hospitalized for the holidays
• Jobless rates fall again in Sauk Valley
• Emanuel on the ballot, for now
• Army WikiLeaks probe could lead to new charges
• A happy tail: Wounded dog given new family
• 'Mayday. Mayday. ... We've got guys trapped'
• Going's good for most holiday travelers, for now
• In 'hometown' of Superman, a lockout lingers
• A major-league firefighter
• 13 Republicans join in passing START treaty
• Fire chief's father also died in a building collapse
• 1 dead, 1 hurt in small plane crash
• Roof of building in deadly fire called 'defective' in 2007
• Hillsides collapse as storm lashes SoCal
• Obama: End of DADT 'a very good day'
• Senate wraps up with victories for Democrats
• Nazarene church offering free Christmas dinner
• Next year's economy: Good enough may be good as it gets
• Art for Art's Sake returns Feb. 26
• Eagle Watch set for Jan. 8 in Clinton, Iowa
• Dinner and comedy show supports Polo fireworks
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Sauk Valley Chamber to sponsore cholesterol, glucose screenings Jan. 25
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• WIU, Illinois Soybean Association offering new ag scholarships
• Half price at Lincoln Museum in January for Sauk Valley residents
• Mental illness support group to meet Dec. 28
• Ogle hospice has movie night Jan. 3
• Gold Star FS donates to area ag literacy programs
• Morrison Christian Church has new minister
• Grand Squares third dance season begins Jan. 3
• The Pastor's Corner
• Color Shots exhibit returns to Next Picture Show in January
• 4-H club's October minutes
• Senior Hannah Munson, 17, is one of Sterli
• Rock Falls native selected to carry flag at NIU commencement
• New Year's dance at saddle club
• Webinars guide direct farm businesses through legal maze
• Forreston 4Hers recognize members' achievements
• Chicago firefighters trapped while fighting blaze
• Census shows slowing US growth
• Judge upholds conviction of ex-governor Ryan
• State denies Pinecrest's appeal for tax relief
• FCC regulates Web content
• Malls still supreme at holiday shopping time
• Magistrate recommends rejecting atheist's lawsuit
• California braces for next wave of heavy rain
• Obama rebounds during lame duck
• Illinois appellate court OKs pipeline project
• AP sources: Deal reached on 9/11 health bill
• US poised to approve nuclear arms pact with Russia
• Nature group pays $373,500 for rare piece of ‘presettlement’ prairie
• Jimmy John's pulls alfalfa sprouts in Illinois
• Food safety bill passes Congress, but issue of funding looms
• Mount Morris family loses almost everything in fire
• Rock Falls agrees to help Sterling with interim fire chief
• Mystery still surrounds Oregon woman's death
• Manzullo to head foreign affairs subcommittee
• No action at prison auction
• UK offers troops, EU seeks answers for snow chaos
• Illinois population up about 3 percent from 2000
• Slow growth means Illinois will lose 1 House seat
• U.S. gas demand declining
• North Korea backs away from threat to attack South
• Eleven vying for four Dixon City Council seats
• Vermont testing single-payer health care
• Republicans stiffen opposition to nuclear treaty with Russia
• 12 men arrested in suspected UK terrorism plot
• Sterling man charged in Polo hit-and-run that injured police officer
• Dixon homeless shelter move on hold
• U.S. Census could be unkind to Illinois
• BC-IL--Illinois Governor-Germany,1st Ld-Writethru
• Dixon's three mayoral candidates look ahead
• Chromium found in many cities' drinking water
• Morrison woman gets jail time, probation for abusing 16-year-old
• Sterling, Rock Falls candidates file petitions
• Rock Falls, Sterling set to share fire chief
• Ogle zoning board of appeals meeting canceled
• Sterling agrees to hire interim fire chief
• Europe's snow cancels flights, Lady Gaga show
• Wanted: Buyer for controversial Cape Wind energy
• No holiday from gas price hike: Sauk Valley stations seeing mixed effects
• 'Tron: Legacy' uploads at No. 1 with $43.6M debut
• Grocery relief available to all
• American tourist found stabbed to death in Israel
• Gays see repeal as a civil rights milestone
• A short sigh of relief for jobless
• For 40 years, volunteers have kept Leydig Center going strong in Dixon
• Christmas Eve services scheduled at Morrison UMC
• Reception to honor departing doctor in Mount Morris
• Quinn asks Illinoisans to support veteran programs
• Court Call
• Emanuel case before GOP hearing officer
• Ham dinner available on Christmas Day in Dixon
• Unused drug disposal program available in DeKalb
• Paralyzed Illinois hunter returns, bags deer
• Capitol gains for Obama in late-session deal making
• Early Christmas treat: 2010's total lunar eclipse
• Open for Business: Ink Storm Tattoo
• Blaze damages Fulton home
• 2 fatal wrecks on I-80 in Bureau County
• Hultgren, Schilling get assignments
• Tougher laws for sex offenders
• GE's toxic legacy in Morrison
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• PADS needs help spreading Christmas cheer
• Obama: Tax bill is 'progress'
• Boil order remains in effect for part of Fulton
• Lawyer says feds failed to prove case
• Burris says no to Chicago mayoral race
• New legislation might cut size of WIU board
• Program seeks to limit missed flight connections
• Obama-GOP bill fails to aid jobless '99ers'
• Waterboard advisers to get legal aid
• 'Don't ask, don't tell' and path to citizenship
• End of the line for $8 billion in earmarks
• Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart
• Bears orphaned after fatal attack make zoo debut
• Director of 'Pink Panther,' 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' dies
• Judge denies Sheley motion for 2 juries
• Bureau County considers wind farm moratorium
• Police still investigating last year's series of intruder reports
• Obama finds a groove in tax deal, but it may be short-lived
• Family busted for $1M pot farm
• Assange free, back to leaking
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• ‘We are on track to achieve our goals’
• Strong week lifts hopes for 2011
• Funding fight could shut down government
• FDA moves to revoke approval of Avastin for treatment of breast cancer
• IDOT projects in Dixon, Oregon contracted
• Tarp's estimated cost: $25B
• At least 20 killed in Ivory Coast clashes
• Witness: Emanuel's renter wanted $100K to move out
• Mount Morris man faces new school break-in charges
• Feds seize 11 tons of marijuana
• Illinois unemployment, foreclosures both drop
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Know Your Neighbor Ken Pomorin
• Area high school state scholars acknowledged
• Clever Clovers 4-H Club promotes agricultural literacy
• 112-year-old painting on display at Loveland
• Ben Daszkiewicz, 17, is Amboy High School'
• Lyndon student receives Lions scholarship
• Tampico prepares for Reagan centennial birthday
• Hotshots 4-H'ers give ag books to libraries
• Scholrships available from local engineering society
• Career center announces students of month for October
• Refuge areas reopened at Savanna, other Fish and Wildlife sites
• 4-H club hosts Kids in the Kitchen
• Ogle County Extension announces holiday hours
• Didier among students to study in Australia
• Walnut Public Library announces holiday hours
• Rock Falls billiards club has New Year's Eve lock-in for kids
• First Presbyterian has Longest Night service Dec. 20 in Sterling
• Challand Middle School, Sterling High Hon
• Church hosted Christmas cantata
• Quilt guild announces January events
• Assaults more common than shootings in hospitals
• New report calls for online privacy bill of rights
• Obama claims major progress as Afghan war rolls on
• Deadline for troops to appply for special pay is Sunday
• Rock Falls board OKs $10,000 loan to ROE
• Attorneys: Ryan's wife has 3-6 months to live
• Tyco to finish cutting its work force in the next 6 weeks
• Amboy family celebrates research grant for rare neurological disorder
• Prison guard charged in Whiteside with aggravated child pornography
• Ogle County men on mission to Honduras
• Judge mulls motion to drop charges
• Deere plans to build another plant in China
• Car burglaries reported in Morrison
• Springfield mayor's fatal gunshot appears self-inflicted
• Halfway home: Senate sends tax-rate bill to House
• Obama, CEOs: Better relations to boost economy
• Avoid frostbite as temperatures drop
• House again votes to end 'don't ask, don't tell'
• Stores try to create shopping surge in final days
• Sterling schools OK $12 million tax levy
• Search on hold for woman missing after fatal crash
• School board gunman had Dec. 14 marked on calendar
• Senate acts on tax cuts; now it's up to the House
• Ogle County gets new fingerprinting machine
• Ogle sheriff making pitch for federal detention center
• Emanuel grilled on residency
• Reagan centennial stamp out in February
• Open house in Dixon set for Sunday
• Morrison church's Christmas cantata Sunday
• Sterling schools slated to OK $12 million levy
• Filing open for Sterling, Coloma park districts
• Whooping cough on rise
• Coroner: Springfield mayor's death from gunshot
• Illinois gets 6 out of 10 on preparedness report
• Tax-cut deal votes ahead
• Police: Springfield mayor found dead in home
• Long legal fight ahead for health law
• Black segregation in US drops to lowest in century
• Emanuel testifies in Chicago residency hearing
• Morrison OKs budget, lower deficit
• Chicago airports returning to normal
• U.S. judge rejects key part of new health-care law
• Filing opens for Rock Falls city, Sterling school board races
• Documentary on US Sen. Paul Simon in works
• Bus driver flattens snow man, loses job
• Police seek help with stolen copper, car break-ins
• $4.5 million OK'd to fix Coliseum
• State going after online sales tax dodgers
• Quinn names new chief of staff
• Chicago man wants new trial in bail-jumping case
• Hardee's dining room renovation nearly done
• Gun used in tanning salon robbery matches 'honeybee' shootings
• Ogle sheriff: Weather to blame in crash that kills Chana teen
• Headline: NIU sells bonds to fund campus improvement projects
• Dixon candidates begin to file election petitions
• Setback for health care overhaul
• Court call
• Senior center offers lunch and movie Friday in Sterling
• Suicide bombing kills 6 NATO troops n Afghanistan
• IDOT to host blood drive Wednesday in Dixon
• First terror attack in 3 decades shocks Sweden
• Deer hunting on the decline
• 17 killed in Iraq suicide bombing
• ‘Social Network’ named best film
• Israel's leader does not want to share Jerusalem
• 'I do urge Americans not to forget Haiti'
• Fatal robbery may be linked to 'honeybee' shootings, sources say
• Grinch pinches Christmas tree from mad mom
• Merry ornithology
• Prison system faces costs of elderly inmates
• Emanuel amends 2009 tax return in wake of criticism
• Pekin man charged in dead squirrel toss
• Madoff son's suicide followed battle with trustee
• Seminar Thursday on new labor laws, regulations
• NIU grads, families deal with blizzard during ceremony
• Adams court documents
• Adams claimed affair with victim
• A role that suits him
• Business Roundup: New business ventures come to the Sauk Valley
• How does local teachers' pay rate?
• Deere sells wind-energy business to Exelon
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Study backs 'value-added' analysis of teacher effectiveness
• Organist to perform at Dixon Senior Center
• Add-ons turn tax cut bill into 'Christmas tree'
• Imprintable Memories Inc.
• Jailed Chinese dissident honored at Nobel ceremony
• Pakistanis protest civilian deaths in U.S. drone attacks
• Schools head denounces Rockford racism
• U.S. scrambles to salvage Mideast peace talks
• Special Sunday pickups for holiday mail
• Poll: Obama's approval ratings fall to new low
• Assisted living facility seeks approval
• Nations struggle to make even modest climate deals
• Amtrak sets course from Chicago to Iowa
• WikiLeaks shows deeper U.S. role in Muslim world
• House Dems rebel against tax deal; passage expected
• Facebook CEO gives back
• Democrats delay action on young immigrants bill
• Household wealth up slightly as Americans whittle debt
• Bright lights, big city beckon in East Peoria
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• BC-IL--Illinois Poverty Commission
• Groups plan protest, counter-protests at Edwards funeral
• Kirk, GOP block lifting ban on gays in military
• BC-RECRUITINGCENTER:BZ _ national
• Crime changes face with high-tech masks
• When performance doesn't count
• Woodlawn Arts Academy recital Saturday
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Jesus still calms the waters today
• Upcoming at the Franklin Grove library
• Upcoming events at Sterling library
• Church plans Christmas season music
• Tenor to perform at free concert in Dixon
• Oregon student receives racial justice scholarship
• Noon recital at Morrison Methodist church
• LSSI provides services assessments for seniors
• Mendota hospital to offer Heartsaver course
• SVCC to offer dance classes
• Master Gardener volunteers sought
• West Carroll FFA Dairy Foods team takes third
• U of I Extension names educators for new units
• U of I offers new online course in crop advising next spring
• Dixon library annouces holiday hours, new books
• Auto-Owners Insurance gets top customer rating
• Breakfast to benefit deployed soldiers
• Illinois pork producers help achieve national goal
• Website helps you care for septic systems
• Live nativity tonight features music, animals
• Opening the inn
• Egg sales rebound after huge recall
• Thomson prison auction less than 2 weeks away
• Private company makes space travel history
• Deer harvest numbers up slightly here, down statewide
• Police: Gunman threatens Morrison girl
• Obama urges action on deal to avoid Medicare cuts
• Reward offered in July fire in Bureau Valley School District offices
• Dixon warms up with Second Saturday Happenings
• Ogle board member gets Oprah's favorite things
• Area voices join Clinton Symphony for holiday concert
• Rockford Symphony Youth Orchestra to perform in Byron
• Hackers strike at MasterCard to support WikiLeaks
• Holiday music events planned at Oregon schools
• Rock Falls man makes holiday magic
• Advent Recitals Friday in Morrison
• Edwards had prepared family, home for death
• Voices of Praise to perform cantatas
• Dixon murder defendant wants confession thrown out
• House Dems push budget bill
• Sterling Police offering free police academy for citizens
• Guest bartenders, raffles to raise money for local scholarships
• Senior center offers Santa's workshop activities for kids
• Oregon woman accused of falsely reporting abduction
• Polo city taxes lower than first estimated
• $67 million settlement with Bank of America
• Sterling wants more RecycleBankers
• Elizabeth Edwards succumbs to cancer at 61
• Job openings at highest level in 2 years
• Ogle County board chooses new leadership
• Mount Morris forging ahead with $12 million sewer plant
• Council approves mayor's leave
• ICE still interested in Ogle
• Illinois casino plan could amp up gambling competition
• Good Fellows spreading good cheer
• Oregon police looking for dead woman's backpack
• Tax deal should help economy, analysts say
• Rock Falls 13 levy higher that predicted
• Sterling Rock Falls Clinic updates online access
• Obama struggles to secure tax deal
• Intelligence officials see rise in foreign fighters in Iraq
• Israeli leaders face scorching criticism over fire
• Deal emerges on tax cuts, unemployment benefits
• On eve of talks, Iran says it's mining own uranium
• At least 50 homes destroyed in landslide
• New study: Marijuana’s medical perils, promise
• Sycamore company recalls chicken salad
• Chicago woman held on bail after stun gun incident
• NIU planning for improvements
• Library of Congress 
exhibit in Rockford this week
• Tickets for Reagan show on sale now
• Sterling Police complete heightened traffic enforcement
• Weekend storm dumps 7.8 inches on Sauk Valley; Parking restrictions in effect
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Court Call
• Free Alzheimer's explainer coming up
• Spalding's must move 
by Dec. 24
• Register now for free 4-C workshops
• Local economic boon with CKC route?
• Blues Brothers raising money for Granny Rose
• Open for Business: Main Street Wine Cellar
• Military
• Illinois farmers give back through Monsanto Fund
• Stupor Bowl 2011 set for Feb. 6 in Dixon
• Sauk Valley Tea Party has planning meeting
• grads, awards honors
• Illinois Farm Economics Summit scheduled
• Oregon High junior named to state advisory panel
• Joe Blessman is Newman's October Student of the Month
• Mendota hospital offering immunization clinics
• Methodist Church having Advent recitals
• Lutheran fraternity offering college scholarship
• Horseman association offering college scholarship
• Honor rolls 12/4
• Luther College DECORAH, Iowa – Ashley Wol
• Band to play benefit for animal shelter
• Live nativity scene planned in Mount Morris
• Ogle County Hospice to host movie night
• Mount Carroll wrongful death lawsuit (PDF)
• Senate OKs lower pensions for police, firefighters
• First snow on its way
• WikiLeaks fights to stay online amid attacks
• Storm forecast info
• NASA scientists find bacteria that can live on arsenic
• Your Weekend Top 5
• It’s an 1830s Christmas: Apple River Fort State Historic Site decks the halls
• First snow on its way; local road crews are ready
• 2 GOP senators endorse panel's deficit-cutting plan
• Death penalty handed down in home-invasion murders
• Morrison business collecting shoes for charity
• Family sues grain bin company
• No charges in two deaths
• House votes to extend middle-class tax cuts
• Prosecutors working on Blagojevich jury questions
• House censures Rep. Rangel
• Sentencing rescheduled in sex abuse case
• Illinois Senate rebuffs Quinn on open records veto
• Warrant issued in Sweden for Assange
• Municipal bond bust could do big damage
• Cities wary of reform's early costs
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Kennedy's widow a future candidate?
• Loan program extended for European banks; bond buys 'ongoing'
• Regulators want Illinois to be plug-in car leader
• Senate approves lower pensions for police and fire
• Answers sought in northern Wis. hostage situation
• Experts offer tips to avoid holiday blues
• Holiday Happenings
• Charity events set for Sights and Sounds
• Reception planned for Windmill Cultural Center contributor
• Clinton Symphony holiday concert features baritone
• Ashford to present unique Christmas concerts
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Holiday walk planned through historic Grand Detour
• Kishwaukee Symphony to present 'Winter Wonderland'
• Firm plans $6 million MidAmerica cargo warehouse
• It's First Fridays time in Oregon
• Deficit commission unveils report
• Sauk Valley students participating in Augustana concert
• Senate OKs crackdown on doctors in sex crimes
• FTC backs privacy option for Web users
• Child sex offender loses bid for retrial
• Prosecution loses appeal in Lemons homicide case
• Economy appears headed for strong finish for 2010
• State Senate OKs civil unions
• KSB Hospital's leader to retire
• 10-year-old boy pulls baby brother from fire
• Wisconsin high school reopens after class held hostage
• 2 million lose jobless benefits as holidays arrive
• Winds lash the East, knock out power; roads flood
• State officials improve website on road conditions
• World AIDS Day arrives after encouraging research
• Illinois House passes civil unions legislation
• Ill. House fails to OK medical marijuana use
• Senate OKs food-safety bill that doesn't cover meat, eggs
• Defense agrees to provide Curl's DNA to court
• Mom supported son's microwaving habit, Facebook postings show
• Son charged in fatal Fulton fire
• Oregon woman found dead in Rock River
• CGH Medical Center and Sterling Rock Falls Clinic set to merge
• Mount Morris losing 400 jobs
• Hostages of school gunman tried to put him at ease
• Chicago woman arrested in Dixon drug-running investigation
• Senate shuns push for elimination of pet projects
• Gays won't hurt military; leaders cite troop poll
• Equipment thefts reported in Dixon
• Star Road bridge work on hold; section closed
• U.S. cuts access to files after leak embarrassment
• Ill. committee recommends abolishing death penalty
• Quinn to keep temporary jobs program going
• Boy charged in fatal fire
• Thousands of life insurance claims denied after death
• Supreme Court to hear prison overcrowding case
• Feds 'raid' websites trading counterfeit goods
• Teen killed in Ogle County 
hunting accident identified
• Both sides lobbying hard on Illinois civil unions bill
• Woodstock man's fatal fall from Soldier Field called accidental
• GOP Rep. Kirk sworn in as Illinois' newest senator
• Illinois casino smoking bill is approved
• Roskam added to congressional GOP leadership team
• Afghan police officer kills 6 U.S. service members
• Pay freeze on the way for federal workers?
• Budget cutters aim their axes at Medicare
• Classes, sports moving forward for Dixon students
• Panel taking complaints about disabled rights violations
• Broker gets 4 years for bilking clients
• Obama and GOP, room for deals and confrontations
• US tries to contain damage from leaked documents
• KSB wins March of Dimes grant to help get babies to full term
• Colleges pressed to give credit for work experience
• Obama freezing federal worker pay
• Oregon Muslim leaders fear retribution after plot
• Man who dies after Soldier Field fall identified
• Holiday sales encouraging, but are shoppers done?
• Body discovered in building's remains
• Local health officials say e-cigarettes not up to snuff
• South Korea vows consequences for North Korean attack
• Leslie Nielsen of 'Naked Gun' fame dies at age 84
• Authorities say man died after truck tire exploded
• Annual Amboy walk kicks off Christmas season
• Arab leaders pushed U.S. to attack Iran, WikiLeaks disclosures show
• Hot tips to reduce your wintertime heating bills
• Chicago transplant program caters to Hispanics
• E-trash to treasure
• Cut your own – or not
• Court Call
• Overeaters Anonymous meets in Byron
• IRTA Excellence grants awarded
• Walnut Public Library to begin new book club
• Local Eagle Scout releases first book
• Lee health department offers tips on winter safety
• Brandon Neisewander is Newman's September Student of the Month
• Advent retreat planned at the Canticle
• Farmers urged to vote in county committee elections
• County Line Crusiers donate to area charities
• Ronald McDonald care mobile coming to Ogle County in December
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• '57 girls will eat lunch at Pizza Hut
• Luminaries make the news
• Main Street sponsoring Santa's Workshop
• Disabled sportsmen participate in deer hunt
• Leaf River 4-H participates in Oregon parade
• Sterling student performs in production
• Chapter inducts 21 new members
• Christmas past exhibit at Fulton Windmill Cultural Center
• Honor rolls 11/27
• Harkness buys out Warren Motors
• Slight shifts in local jobless rates
• Handling holiday heartache
• Polo church plans Christmas events
• Sterling man charged in bar stabbing arraigned
• Sterling man gets probation in car vandalism case
• Teen dies in Ogle County hunting accident
• Whiteside Toys for Tots struggling
• Calling all Santas: Lee County Toys for Tots needs you
• Quilters guild having potluck dinner Dec. 2
• ComEd work leaves resident with some safety concerns
• Fire destroys Prophetstown machine shed
• Senator: Make fertilizer used for IEDs harder to get
• At one Afghan base, U.S. troops have extra reason to be thankful
• Enjoy an Old World Christmas
• BC-US--Thanksgiving Weather,1st Ld-Writethru
• Dairy Queen opens in Oregon
• PFLAG hosting World AIDS Day dinner Dec. 5
• Dixon plans a weekend of Christmas activities
• Kanye West, Kung Fu Panda star at NYC parade
• Bits n' Reins club has first meeting of 4-H year
• Morrison charity gathering items to send overseas
• Annual turkey dinner giveaway inspires local volunteers
• 'I'm back': Alex returns to cheers, tears
• Texas priest accused of trying to hire hit man
• Law firm skips gifts to give goodies to troops
• Morrison man charged with felony vandalism
• VietNow POW/MIA remembrance Friday in Dixon
• Mount Morris to host free community concert
• Band to perform first public concert
• Sterling prepares for holiday events downtown
• West Carroll music department to perform
• Yuletide Tea planned at The Meadows
• 'It's a Wonderful Life' holiday theme in Morrison
• Tampico kicks off Christmas events Dec. 4
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• FULTON – Arlene Rose Considine, who collec
• Local author to make book-signing appearance
• Holiday craft sale planned in Princeton
• Forreston concert to benefit area food banks
• First Fridays continues at Oregon VFW
• TSA chief warns against boycott of airport scans
• Sister City visitor promotes autism awareness at DHS
• Wind causes some damage in Rock Falls
• Rare disorder affects Amboy family
• Alex is coming home
• Two on ballot for Sterling mayoral race
• New sentencing date in Hager case
• Morrison proposing cuts
• Why mixing alcohol and caffeine can be deadly
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Byron man dies, Dixon women hurt in crash
• Judge hearing arguments on Ryan convictions
• Panel seeks ideas on fighting chronic disease
• Officials give tips for a safe Thanksgiving
• Heisman Trophy coming to Dixon
• Obama administration unveils new health care rule
• Court Call: Roundup of some of this week's criminal cases
• Art Institute lions getting solar-powered wreaths
• Wind damage in Rock Falls
• Heisman comes to Dixon for a day
• Daniel Day-Lewis to play Lincoln, visits Illinois
• Bradley University offers halal food for Muslims
• Founder of Chicago's DuSable Museum dies
• Neighbors befriend, feed wild turkey
• Federal prisoners a boon for Alton
• Braun announces run for Chicago mayor
• Believers find mixed blessings in Pope's comments
• Kids' ER visits fell after cold medicines' removal
• IRS has $4 million in Illinois refunds
• Weak world economy cuts carbon pollution
• Report: Would-be plane bombers post attack details
• 'Harry Potter' sets franchise record on opening weekend
• Pentagon: New facility speeds North Korean nuclear ability
• TSA chief: Screening policies OK
• No more friendly skies as security tightens
• Toys for Tots drive Friday
• Mr. Thanksgiving
• Dixon man arrested in series of car break-ins
• Open for Business: Griffin Computer Repair
• Friends of the Canal to go hiking Sunday
• Library offering computer classes
• What happened to my Word?
• Alzheimer’s Association offers holiday stress program
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Dixon art show winners announced
• PFLAG to show documentary
• Morrison church choirs to have benefit concert
• Tree of Lights will honor loved ones lost
• Church choirs team up for benefit concert
• Ronald McDonald Care Mobile to visit Dixon
• Ogle County names seven new ambassordors
• 4-H members win horse bowl
• Oregon Trail Days members selling calanders
• Prairie Hill Recycling and Disposal facility recertified
• Next Picture Show to have jewelry workshop
• USDA issuing first ACRE payments
• Byron Forest Preserve to host badge program
• Lawmakers push measure to fight online bullying
• Ohio town grieves after 3 missing are found
• Illinois emergency plan is reaccredited
• Satellite appears to show North Korea nuke building
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Know Your Neighbors
• Security a priority at nuclear plant
• Sterling man to be arraigned in stabbing case
• Report: Raising retirement age hurts poor
• CGH opens Sterling walk-in clinic
• Sterling Main Street holiday CD release party on Saturday
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Burris calls for more diversity in farewell speech
• Dixon wants a historic business district
• Experts ID remains after 18 months
• GOP votes against jobless aid
• Illinois' jobless rate falls for 7th month
• Israel says no building freeze in Jerusalem
• Holloway's dad: Officials ask for dental records
• Mortgage rates jump along with Treasury yields
• Government insists full-body scanners are safe
• State wants comments on health insurance exchange
• No crime in dispatcher-drug dealer tip-off
• Illinois jobless rate falls for 7th month in a row
• IRS has $4 million in undeliverable state refunds
• Woman finds pipe bombs, brings them to police
• Sterling driver ticketed in crash with fire engine
• House votes to keep government worker personnel evaluations private
• Dixon child abuse defendant to be arraigned Dec. 2
• Oregon man dies in fiery crash
• Rochelle church having early Thanksgiving
• Asbestos fix could cost almost $500K
• Red Cross CPR course Saturday in Dixon
• RFHS approves $4.4 million levy
• Reynolds UMC to have harvest festival
• Lawmakers take new look at gambling expansion
• Craft show Saturday in Rock Falls
• Last Toys for Tots sign-up Saturday at Northland Mall
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• KCs offering free Thanksgiving meal
• Hard time for prison plan
• Seminar to help landlords keep housing crime-free
• Lee wind farm review panel called 'biased'
• Know Your Neighbors
• Rock Falls man given jail, probation in theft case
• New Dixon gauge will provide better flood prediction
• Sterling-Rock Falls moves forward with new court
• BC-US--Walmart-Medicare,3rd Ld-Writethru
• Know Your Neighbors
• Sterling Schools slated to approve preliminary levy
• European officials: No bailout yet for Ireland
• Book signing today in Franklin Grove
• Bucket brigade to raise money for Christmas
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Celebrate Starry Nights and Twinkling Lights!
• Honored loved ones during Love LIght Tree Ceremony
• Have some fun at Holiday Bingo
• Sterling police looking for driver in hit-and-run
• Kicking off the holidays
• Cheap Trick drummer coming to Kidder Music
• How it all began
• Fire marshal investigating Savanna fire
• Chili supper fundraiser Thursday at Good Neighbor
• Rock Falls Fire to subscribe to online response system
• Carroll County crash victim upgraded to good condition
• Rangel guilty of ethics violations, but expulsion unlikely
• Prince William gives UK long-awaited royal wedding
• Pilots among those dismayed at scanners, pat-downs
• Cook County schools hit by norovirus
• ‘Dutch’ flavor highlights next Stupor Bowl
• Lee United Way close to its goal
• Dixon City Council approves last of well loans
• Facebook to integrate e-mail into unified messaging system
• GOP economists criticize Fed's bond-purchase plan
• Top Senate Republican joins push to stop earmarks
• Ethics panel begins deliberations in Rangel case
• Caterpillar digs deep in $7.6B deal for Bucyrus
• Rise in U.S. hunger slows, but remains high
• Poinsettias fundraiser runs through Nov. 24
• Know Your Neighbors
• Operation Piece of Home seeks donations for military care packages
• Possible good news for RF Elementary taxpayers
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Polo City Council backs off 5 percent tax hike
• Years that are hard to replace
• Whiteside budget, contract approvals expected tonight
• Lee says he's running for Sterling mayor
• New animal shelter nears completion
• Court Call
• Meet and greet with Dixon mayoral candidate Saturday
• Sunday makes Saturday special
• Reservations due for annual Bosma-Renkes memorial service
• Another mega weekend for 'Megamind'
• After 388 days, Somali pirates free British couple
• Obama calls latest Israeli plan promising
• Maker of Four Loko to stop shipments to NY state
• Driver held in motorcycle crash that kills 5
• GOP hopes to play bigger role in Springfield
• Obama's Asian trip shows limits on global stage
• NATO: 5 service members killed in Afghanistan
• Know Your Neighbors
• White House, GOP look for middle ground on taxes
• Children collecting items for Polo food pantry
• Daughter 1 of 3 charged in Mich. couple's stabbing
• Fire engine collides with car Sunday in Sterling
• Culvert replacement starts today near Morrison
• Wendy's, ALDI on the rise
• Bureau Valley grad wins AGCO scholarship
• First Farm Credit Services named employer of the year
• Sterling woman receives Beta Sigma Phi scholarship
• West Carroll FFA members meet with postsecondary ag president
• West Carroll FFA members attend national FFA convention Oct. 20-23
• FHN nurse receives national award for helping uninsured patients
• Rock River Center plans bus trip to Fireside Theater
• Jail deaths illustrate problem
• Museum fox has a name
• Thomson Chamber of Commerce sponsors logo design contest
• Try this formula for happiness
• Swift Hospitality Group named a top 100 hotel owner
• Dates set for Corn and Soybean Classics
• Hospice nurses and nurse's aides certified
• Military
• USDA announces 2009 Crop Assistance Program
• West Carroll FFA harvests ag plot
• Sterling student promoted to news director at radio station
• Kiwanis club selling poinsettias
• Free diabetes health fair tonight
• Accident survivor now in serious condition
• Christmas craft and antiques store opens in Polo
• Know Your Neighbors
• Ben Shaw named chief digital officer
• Former Dixon resident to give CGH benefit concert
• Floral photo exhibit displayed at Dixon bank
• Oregon Coliseum getting a new look
• BC-CHANDRALEVY:WA _ national
• Dead Dixon inmate was Kane County resident
• BC-ARLINGTON-WIDOWS:LA _ national
• Sauk poses Vonnegut's 'The Euphio Question'
• Sterling earning rewards for RecycleBank program
• With meds gone, deputy out: Records show lax jail oversight of inmates’ prescription drugs
• Serving during 
wartime
• Breakfast at the Legion hall benefits food pantry
• MS therapies, research updates Saturday
• Rock Falls brothers plead not guilty to meth-making
• Probation officer cleared of domestic battery
• Disabled veterans' memorial poised to take shape in capital
• Inspiring interaction: Therapeutic robotic seal visits Dixon nursing home
• Career soldier focused on mission: Gulf War vet signed on during the Cold War
• Know Your Neighbors
• Rivals for Ogle circuit clerk will work together
• Police looking for info on Meadows car burglaries
• Probation officer's battery trial gets under way
• Biden rolls out home energy efficiency program
• Mount Morris charitable drives gearing up for the holidays
• Oregon city workers getting a 'bonus'
• Marines to celebrate 235th birthday
• Poll: Palin most polarizing of 2012 crowd
• Administration moving away from 2011 Afghan withdrawal date
• VA signs lease for new clinic
• Supreme Court's cell phone case has big consumer impact
• Dixon High gym closed
• Eggs recalled after salmonella found at Ohio farm
• Microsoft phone ads' unusual message: Put down that phone
• Panel: Dollars did not trump safety in Gulf spill
• Hydrant flushing set for Wednesday in southeast Dixon
• Obama backs India for spot on U.N. Security Council
• Supreme Court hears arguments in Costco case
• Prosecutor: Mom says she killed girl as protection
• Jury seated in probation officer's trial
• Accident survivor remains in critical condition
• Rock Falls family burned out of new home
• Historical society to hear about Illinois infantry
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Durbin seeks probe of pollution at rail stations
• Veterans Day ceremonies span the Sauk Valley
• Know Your Neighbors
• Schools working to combat bullying
• Propheter Neighborhood Watch meets tonight
• Intestinal illness spreading in suburban schools
• Back in the public eye, Bush as assured as ever
• 2 bicyclists die near Dixon in collision with fertilizer spreader
• Black leaders tap Davis as pick for Chicago mayor
• Michael Jackson's children recall pop star father
• Hultgren has high 
hopes
• Lawyers say proving egg-related lawsuits difficult
• Two charged with thefts from UI library
• Elizabeth Smart says she awoke to knife on neck
• Blagojevich trial witness arrested for shoplifting
• Stocks fall as rally runs out of steam; Dow off 37
• Accused killer feared 4-year-old would become 'Internet sex slave'
• Man condemned to die for fatal home invasion
• Sterling veteran recounts service during Korean War
• Doctors slash drug company ties amid rising scrutiny
• Mount Caroll woman dies in crash
• Iraqi Christians rally in Chicago
• Harmon fire department needs volunteers
• Durbin seeks probe of pollution at rail stations
• Know Your Neighbors
• Police say Chicago crime rate continues to fall
• Schilling sees challenges ahead
• Trial starts in 2005 beauty salon slayings
• Besides seats, GOP wins sway in 2010 redistricting
• Daley wants new Chicago Public Schools CEO quickly
• Digging up their family history
• Ballot counting on hold in Illinois congressional race
• Deadlines near for Morrison Christmas activities
• Southern Illinois soldier dies in Afghanistan
• Court Call: Roundup of Sauk Valley criminal cases
• Crematorium accused of misidentifying remains
• Oscar-nominated actress Jill Clayburgh dead at 66
• Taste of Home cooking show Tuesday in Sterling
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Ohio NASA lockdown spurred by test system glitch
• Taking cues from youth: Rock Falls Billiards Club offers recreation alternative
• Scientists find damage to coral near BP well
• Brady too far to the right for Illinois voters?
• White ex-transit officer's sentence sparks protest
• Jobs crisis eases, but economy has long way to go
• NJ train worker who burned Quran sues over firing
• Brady admits defeat
• Dixon man handled anti-aircraft guns during World War II
• Schools have a lot riding on test results
• Schools falling behind: More local schools, districts falling short of standards
• Chicago-area strip club owner admits tax crimes
• ICE detainee dies after leaving Dixon custody
• Hiring spurt in October eases jobs crisis a bit
• 2 million people to lose jobless benefits in December
• Dixon man charged with selling heroin
• Victims remembered 1 year after Fort Hood shooting
• As deadline looms, Chicago's mayoral race heats up
• Shuttle launch off until end of month to fix leak
• Pastor's Corner
• Harvest Time Bible Church offering free Thanksgiving dinner
• West Carroll FFA Greenhands attend conference
• Alzheimer's Association offering holiday stress program
• Chili and soup is on at Immanuel Lutheran
• Firemen's breakfast Sunday in Milledgeville
• Fulton church having turkey supper
• Mendota Community Hospital offers screenings
• AGMasters conference set for Dec. 2-3 in Urbana
• Preschool screenings offered at Oregon Elementary
• Forest preserve to have holiday gift sale
• Native wildlife program planned
• Ogle County Earth Angel program starts Nov. 15
• Home for the Holidays bazaar features home tours
• Program about Switzerland at Nash Center
• Local author to sign new book at Franklin Grove Library
• Carroll County 4-H announces events, awards
• Rock River Center helps seniors with applications
• U of I Extension multi-county directors announced
• Deadline is Dec. 13 for Dixon Elks breakfast
• Attempted murder defendant free on recognizance bond
• KizMaz wants to keep it live
• AP Enterprise: World's oil thirst leads to risks
• Appeals court halts Elizabeth Smart kidnap trial
• Big Mexican drug ring hit by Atlanta-area busts
• Stocks set highs for 2010 after boost from the Fed
• Rezko to challenge 'honest services' convictions
• Quinn narrowly defeats Brady
• Sterling man pleads not guilty in weapons case
• Woodstock man charged in Ponzi scheme
• Polo High to present 'Lady Dracula'
• Kirk, Giannoulias meet at Billy Goat
• Red Cross wine tasting and raffle on tap
• BC-IL--Bloomingdale Murder-Suicide
• Christian recording artist coming to Dixon
• Illinois Senate set to meet on $4 billion borrowing plan
• Two villages plan to limit wind farms
• Battery preliminary hearing delayed for Dixon man
• Upcoming holiday events
• Health, safety repairs OK'd for Oregon schools
• Opera tenor, Dixon grad, to perform at free concert
• Ogle board may dip into Solid Waste Fund
• Praise Night choir to rehearse Nov. 7
• Know Your Neighbors
• Chagall windows reinstalled in Chicago
• Oregon historian to talk about area's history
• Child singer chases dreams
• Polo accepts land deal, changes police hiring standards
• Oregon senior center having rummage sale
• McDermott prevails over write-in
• Kirk defeats Giannoulias for Obama's Senate seat
• Incumbents retain most Lee County board seats
• Candidates in tight race
• Tea time: GOP marches to the brink of House control
• Analysis: United but divided
• Republican recaptures 14th District
• Justices skeptical about curbing sales of violent video games
• Sterling Rural Fire agrees to limit tax hike
• Manzullo secures 10th term
• Dixon man gets 5 years for sexual abuse
• A Schilling stunner in 17th
• Rochelle woman to be sentenced today for armed robbery
• GOP pick up 2 seats on Whiteside Board
• Fulton Christmas walk registration due Monday
• KSB diabetes center open house Monday
• Mitchell wins ninth bid for the 90th Assembly District
• Wilhelmi still top cop
• Dixon man coaxed out of home by tactical unit
• U.S. issues mail advisory, tightens cargo scrutiny
• Voters may hand Republicans big governorship
• Morrison police begin cell phone crackdown
• Texas lawmaker faces possible life in prison
• Police must continue to pay Drew Peterson's son as he awaits hearing
• Manufacturing strengthens in October
• It’s time to vote! Midterm dramas to be decided today
• Rock Falls wins $240,000 for bike path work
• Plea in school burglary case rescheduled
• Rural fire district meeting tonight
• Plant 1 will be reduced to rubble
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Signup is on for Guitar Hero tourney
• Sister says NIU suspect is innocent
• Ex-Rep. Condit: No involvement in Levy killing
• Britain, Germany increase flight security after bomb scare
• Likely gridlock in Congress could threaten economy
• Takeover in sight, GOP confident on election eve
• Know Your Neighbors
• DeKalb murder suspect makes first court appearance
• Ads against Illinois Supreme Court judge omit key info
• Polling places in Lee and Whiteside counties
• On Tuesday's ballots in Lee and Whiteside counties
• Schilling makes a final stop in Sterling
• VITAL to host open house
• Marine Corps invites public to celebrate its 235th birthday
• Court Call
• History of Amish community topic of upcoming meeting
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Bomb plot just narrowly averted, officials say
• Benefits of wind farms topic of presentation
• State candidates hammer home message in final days
• Happy Tails benefit, open house planned
• Theodore Sorensen, top JFK aide, dies at 82
• Extensions combining, moving to Sauk
• Know Your Neighbors
• Down syndrome center gets $1.3M to expand
• Illinois companies get help with retiree health
• GOP could slow down Obama agenda
• Mercy Medical Center offers prenatal classes
• Buffet breakfast in Monroe Center
• Church to have fourth annual extravaganza
• Craft, bake sale planned at Sterling Towers
• Covered Bridge Quilters Guild to meet Friday
• Polo Evening Women's Club meets
• Basketball competition to be at Merrill School
• Next Picture Show offers yoga classes starting Monday
• Lee County Genealogical Society to discuss Paw Paw
• Good News Club begins new session
• Support Groups, Clubs, and Services
• Rock Falls church to celebrate World Community Day
• Ogle solid waste department sponsoring poster contest
• Dinner, comedy show will support foodbank
• St. Peter in Morrison to mark 125th anniversary
• Mount Morris church to present Trunk or Treat on Halloween
• Ogle hospice to have annual memorial service
• Whiteside County Genealogists to meet Friday in Sterling
• New exhibit to open at The Next Picture Show
• Retreat turns into public art project
• Giannoulias touts judgment, passes the buck
• 17th District: About Phil Hare
• Sauk Valley Newspapers launches mobile site
• 17th District: Phil Hare on the Issues
• Foster gets veterans' PAC endorsement
• Sentencing rescheduled in Ashton armed robbery case
• A fight to the finish in 17th District
• No debates in sight in 17th District
• Hearing held for would-be bomber
• Giannoulias touts judgment, passes buck on bank issue
• 14th District: Daniel Kairis on the Issues
• Coroners seek IDs of serial killer's victims
• Novak's still in the ring for Round 3 in 90th Assembly District
• 14th District: Randy Hultgren on the Issues
• Leaf bags available for Sterling Township residents
• Dixon considers new snowmobile rules
• 14th District: Bill Foster on the Issues
• Novak's still in ring for Round 3
• Quinn names retired FBI agent as tollway watchdog
• 14th District: About Randy Hultgren
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Judge focuses on carp DNA in lawsuit
• 14th District: About Daniel Kairis
• More than 10 arrests in Dixon drug sweep
• police sergeant goes on trial
• 14th District: About Bill Foster
• FDA warns egg producer implicated in salmonella outbreak to clean up
• A return for Republicans in 14th District?
• Palin teases crowd about presidential run
• Brady's focus on economy, and not raising taxes
• Crews wrapping up Hennepin Avenue project
• Hare fundraising reaches nearly $1.2M
• Sterling bars can stay open later on Sunday
• 17th District: Roger K. Davis on the Issues
• Council OKs issuing $4.5 million in bonds to rebuild Coliseum
• 17th District: About Roger K. Davis
• Toys for Tots bake sales coming up
• 17th District: Bobby Schilling on the Issues
• YWCA offers Pancakes for Peace Saturday
• 17th District: About Bobby Schilling
• Poll: Those craving for change now look to the GOP
• Progress claimed in Afghan war
• FEMA extends application deadline for flood aid
• Barbara Billingsley, mother on 'Leave It to Beaver,' dies at 94
• Top 400 charities see billions less in donations
• Gay marriage an issue nationwide, including Iowa high court race
• A fight to the finish
• 'He made everyone smile'
• Mom says support system has been strong
• Bridge inspection to close lane on Route 30 near Fulton
• 2 workers killed in Tenn. post office shooting
• Court Call
• CPR switch: Chest presses first, then give breaths
• Garden's healthful benefits topic of Whiteside Forum
• Hilton workers in Chicago on 3-day strike
• Cotton Theory quilting event draws near
• Bureau County to vote on jail referendum
• Dixon High to present free fall concert
• High court not too high-handed
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Federal suit against Bureau County settles out of court
• Obama urges Democrats not to get discouraged
• Dixon firm receives ACEC award
• Is OA right for you?
• Transgender youth to speak in Dixon
• A return for Republicans in 14th?
• Immunization clinic Oct. 20 in Mendota
• 'A place to lay our heads'
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Free health screenings to be offered in Dixon
• West Carroll FFA helps Thomson CROP Walk
• Homebuyer workshop Oct. 30 at Sterling Federal
• Quilters to gather for program
• Tree pruning topic for landscapers meeting
• International mill board members visit Franklin Creek
• Tile drainage directy related to nitrate loss
• Fulton High has special homecoming dance
• Grand Detour Art Festival winners announced
• Rochelle Community Hospital teams up with Central DuPage Hospital
• Art show at former country club
• Whiteside 4-H members decorate windows
• Logistics council to meet Oct. 21 in Oglesby
• Byron Marine dies in Afghanistan
• Misspelled Whitney name to be corrected
• Missing girl's stepmother admits writing ransom note
• House to vote on bonus payment for Social Security
• Sad O’Leary’s fans reminisce
• Chilean rescue finished safely late Wednesday
• Weekly jobless claims show disappointing increase
• Polo Historical Society wins statewide preservation award
• Halloween tradition keeps growing
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Dixon flushing hydrants next week
• Your Weekend Top 5
• No increase for Social Security next year
• 'Soy Boy' ready to take on naysayers
• Consumers can expect heating bills to rise 2.5 percent
• Christ Lutheran plans 5K fundraiser
• Michelle Obama hits trail to help vulnerable Democrats
• Blaze sickened firefighters, residents
• ‘Turnaround Tour’ bus rolls into Sauk Valley
• Bureau County flea market Sunday
• Rescue order of the men pulled from the San Jose mine in Chile
• EPA OKs increased ethanol
• Gamers convention coming to Loves Park
• Second City returns to Dixon with holiday satire
• Fire destroys O’leary’s: No one injured; building must be torn down, fire chief says
• Foreclosure anger is now hitting election campaign
• Ladies Night Out today at the Brandywine
• Police still investigating Sterling man's shooting
• Deadline extended for Illinois flood assistance
• WIFR to air candidate forums
• Peoria school bus driver fired over wreck
• FACT CHECK: Dueling ads on Illinois early release
• Grand jury hearing in infant death delayed
• Rock Falls dam fixed
• PADS already serving 21 homeless
• Famine planned to raise money, food for food pantry
• Sheriff: Private funds would have to pay for detention center
• Fire guts Sterling bungalow
• Officials in 50 states launch foreclosure probe
• Pet parade and costume contest Saturday in downtown Sterling
• How much pain from COLA freeze?
• Hoping for miracles
• Fall means wandering deer
• A new place to play
• Judge: Stop 'don't ask, don't tell' immediately,
• Road work wrapping up
• Porn actor tests positive for HIV
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Political ads: It's getting really nasty out there
• Worker swept through sewer drain is found alive
• Waterman residents reach out to help a friend
• Charge dropped against Illinois officer in shootings
• Quinn gets help from Obama administration
• First trapped Chilean miner reaches surface
• Arson guts Polo corn crib
• Under Obama, renewed FDA 'cautiously energetic'
• Tax group makes endorsements
• Chili supper to raise money for group home
• Know Your Neighbors: Demi C. Jones, Cashier
• History Channel crew films in Dixon
• Chile official: 1st miner to surface Tuesday
• Offshore oil drilling ban to be lifted
• Google tests cars that can steer without drivers
• NY GOP gov hopeful Paladino says he'd hire gays
• US church financier faces Ponzi scheme trial
• Federal holiday kicks off Illinois early voting
• Ladies Night Out Thursday at the Brandywine
• Watchdog group says cellphone users overcharged
• Conservative gains traction in Jackson’s district
• Some nonprofits at risk of losing tax-exempt status
• Workers union claims poor labor relations with NIU
• Trapped Chilean miners to be freed Wednesday
• Reagan historical marker unveiled: Tampico marks start of centennial celebration
• No Social Security cost-of-living hike – again
• Columbus Day closures
• Princeton-area chemical plant destroyed by fire
• Stranded boaters caught in the shallows
• Democrats chances improving?
• United Way plans chili cook-off
• Court Call
• Obama touts $50 billion transportation proposal
• Horsehoe Ball to benefit therapeutic horse-riding program
• Foreclosures ends dream of Chicago Spire
• LSSI sponsoring senior health fair Thursday in Rochelle
• Gov. Quinn says Republican opponent is anti-labor
• Mendota hospital offering lunch, flu shots Oct. 15
• Kirk says rival should answer questions on bank
• Area police collaborate to arrest six
• Joliet pumpkin grower sets state record
• Credibility an issue in TV debate
• 10-10-10: Vegas chapels busy on symmetrical date
• Community health centers to recieve federal grants
• Antiques appraisal day Oct. 16
• Democrats expand attack on GOP funding sources
• Halloween or campaign – which is scarier?
• Bystanders tackle gunman at elementary school; 2 children hurt
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• FAA issues fire warning for lithium batteries
• Drug cops smash into wrong house, terrorize elderly couple
• Economy sheds more jobs, but signs of recovery multiply
• Bank of America stops U.S. foreclosures for review
• Comptroller: Budget deficit could reach $15 billion
• State GOP wants to change early release rules
• Police officer arrested in Ill., Ind. shootings
• Quinn extends tax credits to U.S. Cellular
• Thomson Causeway Recreation Area closed for season
• Honoring the dead in Dixon
• Clear sailing ahead on Hennepin Canal?
• Shopping center accessorizes
• Thanksgiving basket drive applications available
• Pills pose a problem at school
• Republicans to have meet-and-greet
• Ogle 4-H Shooting Sports team gets training
• Genealogical Society having cemetery walk at Oakwood
• Immaculate Conception Church restores pipe organ
• Tri-City Trail Riders to head to Utica
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Chinese dissident Liu wins Nobel Peace Prize
• Franklin Grove library offer new books, DVDs
• Chicago mayor's race casts shadow over state races
• Dixon children's author available for presentations, signings
• Church to serve chicken and biscuit dinner
• Dixon church offers contemporary service
• AG West Carroll FFA wins trapshooting contest
• Residents reminded to complete tax freeze, Circuit Breaker forms
• Mississippi River recreation and refuge areas closed
• Rachel's Vineyard to have retreat Oct. 22-24
• Rules of the Road course scheduled
• Prophetstown church group has fall luncheon
• Circle M 4-H Club elects new officers
• Boy Scouts can work on forestry badge
• Ogle County students gain ag awareness
• Public focus groups organized by Dixon library
• Ashton fireman having buffet breakfast
• Local author signing books in Dixon, Sterling
• Dixon Chili Cook-off includes salsa
• Not guilty plea in Compton marijuana production case
• Democrats accuse Chamber of Commerce of using foreign money in campaigns
• Supreme Court hears case against pickets at military funerals
• Bonds set for three accused cocaine dealers
• New River Railroad open Saturday and Sunday
• Obama administration declares Iraq open for U.S. business
• Dixon Riverfront vandalized: Five park benches thrown into river
• Sunrise Rotary plans seafood buffet fundraiser
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Teachers union endorses Quinn
• Report: White House squelched worst-case estimates of BP spill
• Suburbs take hit as US poverty climbs in downturn
• Sterling woman gets probation for selling prescription drugs
• 'Good neighbor' corn fights borers at home, nearby
• CGH sponsors 'Who Grew My Soup?' festival
• Retailers report September back-to-school boost
• State bar recommends Kilbride for retention
• Sterling drive-by shooting suspects plead not guilty
• Obama awards Medal of Honor to Illinois soldier
• Few find work at Illinois candidate's job fair
• Top Stroger aide resigns, will spend night in jail
• Watchdog's pork report called bull
• Retired Dixon 
officer reflects on 25 years of service
• Dam repairs progressing
• Girl, 9, injured after being hit by car
• Booker gets White's endorsement
• Latinos not enthusiastic but likely to vote Democratic, survey says
• Durbin, Hare push for tougher trade stance on China
• Lee County Board forum tonight
• Rescue of Chilean miners near, government says
• Lioness Club fall auction Oct. 16
• Treasury: TARP to cost $50 billion
• Bullied girl grateful for chance to defend others
• As elections loom, EPA takes bipartisan flak on pollution rules
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Spotlight on sheriff’s race
• Suspected coke dealers face a raft of felony charges
• No new home for homeless shelter
• Board recommends tax break for Pinecrest community center
• Uncertainty over US plans as war enters 10th year
• Activists whose home was searched by FBI to take the Fifth
• Sauk Valley candidates on hand tonight
• Laptops can damage bare skin
• Emanuel begins campaign for Chicago mayor
• In-vitro-fertilization innovator wins Nobel
• Kagan begins work as Supreme Court justice
• 'Some Like It Hot' actor honored at funeral service
• Poll shows Quinn gaining ground on Brady
• Coliseum project back on the drawing board
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Oil industry has yet to adopt lessons of BP spill, US
• Benefit to help with late Savanna benefactor's medical expenses
• Gene test aims for better heart disease detection
• Officials from 5 states fight unlimited spending
• Trail Riders group meeting backed up
• Unlicensed mobile tattoo unit no longer in Lee County
• Lee County tracks sex offenders
• Man shot in stomach awaiting surgery
• Verizon Wireless to refund $50 million to customers
• Rock Falls man, 79, sentenced for theft from elderly woman
• Quilters workshop set for Saturday
• Pumpkin Dash provides family fun
• Autumn on Parade ushers in fall
• ATV crash injures Fulton man
• St. Jude benefit poker run, horse ride this weekend
• Quinn highlights tax amnesty program
• Giannoulias edges ahead of Kirk
• Cimco fire an industrial accident, captain says
• Blagojevich issue casts shadow on Emanuel
• Dixon firefighters plan fire prevention week activities
• Quinn vague on ideas for state's future
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Emanuel hits Chicago streets, makes case for mayor
• Women of the Moose holiday bazaar this weekend
• US terror warning could hurt ailing European economy
• Court call
• Key NATO supply route hit again in Pakistan
• Will voters believe Dem or GOP message on economy?
• Man stealing copper is electrocuted, police say
• Council on aging welcomes new leader
• Sterling man, 20, shot twice Sunday morning
• Person shot twice in western Sterling; police releasing no further details
• Wellness and health fair set for Oct. 7 near Oregon
• Rock River Center offering classes
• Council on aging to have election day, flu shots Oct. 14
• Safety guidlines provided for medecine, needle disposal
• Hobo quilter to be featured at quilt guild meeting
• Rock Falls Library plans October activities
• Nicor offering gas bill assistance
• Fourth-graders have conservation day at Palisades State Park
• Native Sterling skydiver wins gold at national championships
• Sterling library collaborates on cemetery walk
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Annual pet parade set for Oct. 16 in Sterling
• Embrace the seasons with a grateful heart
• military
• Schools, like kids, work to improve
• Sauk opens new testing center
• Senior center has flu and pneumonia clinic
• Dixon native studying abroad
• Sauk offers variety of classes this fall
• Brady set to visit Dixon on Monday
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Some Amboy High students sharing Ritalin
• Fisher-Price recalls products: Toys, high chairs, tricycles linked with injuries
• Farmers on a record pace: Corn, soybeans way ahead of schedule in northwest Illinois
• Lt. gov. candidates say they're ready to lead
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Blagojevich judge lets top lawyer out of 2nd trial
• Smoke roils from Galt scrap yard
• Illinois probation officers say they're overwhelmed
• Details emerge in drive-by shootings
• California governor's race upended by immigrant maid
• PADS prepares for more people
• Emotions run high at Rutgers after teen's suicide
• Oregon business cited in wake of fire
• Energy association offers GSG Wind Farm tour
• Sterling beating victim released from hospital
• Dance classes offered at Sauk
• Relay for Life Lee County seeks volunteers
• Benefit Sunday for disabled Rock Falls baby
• Hospice movie night to feature 'Letters to God'
• Viva St. Mary's! auction benefits school, low-income families
• Program for Alzheimer's caregivers Tuesday in Sterling
• House to send strong message to China against currency policy
• Oregon's Autumn on Parade making 40th run
• Top al-Qaida figure reported killed in Afghanistan
• Wife of retired Navy captain to speak in Davenport
• Sterling buying, rehabbing homes
• Through Oct. 31 Art Exhibit: CCAQ No. 9:
• Free tickets available for Hot Brass concert
• Emanuel leaving White House on Friday
• Selmi's Pumpkin World celebrates 20th season
• Smithsonian exhibit comes to Dixon
• EPA: Illinois should crack down on farm pollution
• Brady, Quinn square off: Spar over jobs, each other at first debate
• Free DNA fingerprinting Saturday in Dixon
• Woman who shot 12-year-old won't face charges, but boy will
• Pumpkin Dash set for Saturday
• Cop who teaches interrogation techniques involved in false confessions
• Upper Dam repairs get under way
• Lead attorney intends to leave Blagojevich defense
• More charges possible in child porn case
• US imposes sanctions on Iranian officials
• Expert to aid in death investigation
• Congress to avoid tough choices until after election
• Prosecutor in Ted Stevens corruption case kills himself, lawyer says
• Powerful earthquake hits eastern Indonesia
• Missouri man wins lottery twice
• U of I proposes dropping aviation degrees
• The debate on debates rages on
• Brady, Quinn trade barbs about economy at debate
• Market appreciation: Sterling grocery getting a new look, inside and out
• New census data show poverty rising in Illinois
• Dixon man charged with child porn
• It's not too late to sign up for Ladies Night Out
• Charges pending against juvenile
• Panel calls for spending BP penalty money on restoring Gulf Coast
• Third 
candidate comes forward: Jilderda wants to represent ‘working man’ in Dixon
• FDA orders mouthwash makers to stop unsupported claims on gum disease
• Peoria native 1 of 2 soldiers who die in Afghanistan
• Former Oregon banker pleads guilty to embezzlement
• Illinois to spend $75 million on jobs program
• New M&D’s owners want more bar time
• Carter resting in hospital after air sickness
• Opening arguments begin today in Lee County bond violation case
• Car and bike show fundraiser Saturday
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Gunman opens fire at University of Texas, kills himself
• Power plant rendered powerless: Low river will mean higher bills in Rock Falls
• River drag turns up no evidence in Byron homicide
• Recession rips at marriages, widens social class divide
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Lieutenant governor candidate visits Dixon
• Sauk plans major overhaul
• Police seek information in homicide
• 80 marijuana plants found in Compton home
• Trial begins for Lee County’s one-time ‘most-wanted’
• Burris’ request to run in special election rejected
• Tax breaks in new small-business law will take effect immediately
• Haiti still waiting for pledged US aid
• Obama: U.S. needs longer school year
• Dixon welcomes its Kenyan brothers and sisters
• Whitney defends big government, higher taxes
• Tasers will make some arrests 
less dangerous
• S. Calif. heat wave leaves thousands without power
• Peabody looks to expand coal mine
• Census: More Illinois kids have health coverage
• Recreation areas closing along the Mississippi
• 'Sound of Music' cast to reunite on Oprah show
• Graveside reenactors needed for Dixon cemetery walk
• Sauk’s ‘Forever Green Expo’ moving to a new date
• Local chambers sponsoring candidates forum
• GOP focuses on Foster, Hare congressional seats
• Quinn struggling to find clear message in re-election bid
• USAF Hot Brass coming to Dixon
• Free preschool screenings available
• Second shooting suspect arrested
• Morrison man, 36, killed by train
• Court call
• Parents can lock in tuition prices with program
• Vietnam wall to come to Iowa
• ‘A park of respect’: Several local sites pay homage to area veterans
• Infant dies from head injuries
• Voter fair draws 30 candidates
• Attorney says 'sexting' Wis. prosecutor to resign
• Jackson's wife: 'My heart will heal' after affair
• Officials say levee failing near Wisconsin park
• Peoria airport to get $5.4 million boost
• Services set for Pleasant Plains Guardsman
• Man hit by train, dies in Morrison
• Second shooting spree suspect surrenders
• United Way drive kicks off in Lee County
• Colbert delivers the 'whole truthiness'
• Ladies Night Out seeks exhibitors
• Pelosi: Tax cut vote may come next week
• Whiteside County Republicans having open house
• Shoppers make quick work of green rebates
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• It's all about the story, the money, the power
• Symphony opens in Sterling
• Ex-prosecutor's wife sentenced for arson, theft,
• Quinn announces $100 million for transportation
• Do some weekend shopping in the garage
• Judge orders Air Force to reinstate major suspended over 'don't ask'
• Small-town mayors targeted by Mexican drug gangs
• Broadband project to bring speed, cost savings
• Three teens injured in single-car crash
• Bill to fight currency manipulation
• Japan to release captain of Chinese fishing boat
• FBI serves terrorism warrants in Minn., Chicago
• Fifth house hit in Sterling shootings
• Death of Dixon infant investigated
• Lee County flu clinics
• Model railroad tours set for Oct. 9-10
• Maranatha Baptist to mark 50th anniversary
• Flu shots to be given in Dixon
• Ogle County 4-H seeks new members
• Polo Women's Club kicks off new season
• Fall crop insurance deadline nears
• State’s top ethics cop visits Sterling
• Walnut Library offers adult enrichment classes
• Rescues and Runways to benefit Happy Tails
• Thomson Causeway photo contest winners announced
• Walk to fight Alzheimer’s on Saturday
• Polo library offers fine amnesty
• Schipper appointed to Whiteside County Board
• Scholastic book fair set for this week
• NICIL Walk ’n’ Roll fundraiser set
• Mendota hospital offering diabetes series
• Ahmadinejad says Iran may end enrichment
• Heartsaver class offered in Mendota
• Pelosi says tax cut vote possible before election
• dean's lists
• Appliance rebate program only lasts over 2 hours
• Dam fix in works to raise the Rock
• Honors and awards
• Oktoberfest coming up
• DOT offering motorcycle training in LaSalle
• Kenyan mom to speak about autism
• Homeschool conference Oct. 7 in Dixon
• Firefighters having breakfast buffet
• Make-A-Wish training session in Rockford
• Illinois won’t challenge health care law
• Sterling Kiwanis takes over Coats for Kids
• Whiteside farmers help the hungry
• TARP chief steps down as program nears its end
• Oregon man charged with rape of a child
• Second man wanted in connection with Sept. 4 shootings
• Sterling man charged with aggravated assault
• Foster, Hultgren at odds 
on TARP
• School board approves deficit budget
• Y, Lil’ Duchesses combine programs
• Lee puts brakes on wind projects
• River Street area closed Saturday for food fest
• Army veteran accused of threatening Obama
• AP Sources: Sheriff will run for Chicago mayor
• Higher sticker fees bring boost to state
• Oregon schools budget goes black
• Pinecrest seeks tax exepmtion for its community center
• Blood drive Saturday in Polo
• Ogle in line for detention center?
• Sterling man arrested, linked with Sept. 4 shootings
• I-88 West Corridor Partners updates its website
• Republicans block bill to lift military gay ban
• Area police agencies get grants for patrol car computers
• Lawrence Park armed robber still at large, police say
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• AP interview: ‘Honest’ Kirk apprehensive
• Homebuilding recovery still years away
• Burke, Gibler to face off for mayor
• Poll shows Romney leads Palin among possible GOP presidential contenders
• Lee Wayne Corp. changing its name
• Obama, White House boosting health law at 6 months
• First lady jumping into midterm politics
• Health adviser says 'law is the law'
• 9 NATO troops die in Afghan chopper crash
• Jackson Jr. denies report about Blagojevich funds
• Benefit Saturday for Morrison woman
• Obama awards posthumous Medal of Honor to PA man
• Nothing 'amiss' so far in Savanna toddler's death
• Report: $4B in tax breaks for Ill. from health law
• Tri-County looking for foster grandparents
• Senate repeal of ban on gays in military falters
• Sauk gets $500K for wind turbine
• Main Street moves to new locale
• Brain-cancer cluster trial opens in Philly
• Chicago man arrested in bomb plot
• Court denies Burris request to stop election
• Kirk calls for halting financial bailout he backed
• Former Lee County treasurer running for re-election to IMRF board
• 124 with arrest warrants found in nursing homes
• Economists say recession officially ended in 2009
• Independent voters deeply dissatisfied with Obama, poll says
• Scrapbooking class offered by Byron Forest Preserve
• Ahmadinejad says capitalism faces defeat
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Police seize $30M from Vatican in probe
• Rock Falls requests development funding from county
• Police looking for armed robbery suspect
• Sterling approves rural fire contract
• Hultgren: Time to spend responsibly
• Potential Chicago mayoral candidate Braun says she'll skip race if it's divisive'
• Open Sesame has openings
• Dixon, Sterling police join prescription drug program
• Voter fair set for Sunday at Sauk
• Afghan observers question election as tally starts
• Open seats draw state interest
• FDA to consider approval of modified salmon
• Walk to benefit poor set for Saturday in Amboy
• Economic panel says recession ended in June 2009
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Study finds 'awareness gap' in teens on dangers of road texting
• Court call
• Blown-out BP well is declared dead
• Kirk calls for halting financial bailout he backed
• Daley mentored others as he reshaped city
• Igor passes near Bermuda as Category 1 hurricane
• Chili fest warms taste buds
• Polo to discuss $11 million loan
• Big Squeeze set for early October
• Paint the Town draws record crowd
• Blessing of bows and hunt set for Friday at Prairieville church
• GOP divided on how to replace health overhaul law
• Iraq suffers deadliest day since U.S. drawdown
• O'Donnell makes light of witchcraft comment
• Ahmadinejad says the future belongs to Iran
• Amboy homecoming's theme is "Red Carpet Affair"
• Library to have book sale
• Global links formed through milling
• Genealogists to gather in Peoria area
• Lee tourism council offering photo contest for 2011 calendar
• Poker run set for Sept. 25 to raise funds for Honor Flight
• "WHY GO TO CHURCH?"
• New youth ministry will start in Dixon
• Church has weekly socials
• Sauk hosts second 9/11 tribute breakfast
• Whiteside senior center announces upcoming events
• Sterling family hosts Chinese exchange student
• Sauk offering community service classes in September, October
• OREGON – Kim Radostits, a teacher at Oreg
• Brain injuyr support group to meet
• Quilt guild to meet Sept. 20
• Caregiver group to have September meeting
• Church starts first Lawn Fest
• Class openings availabe for therapeutic riding
• Real life 'Black Hawk Down' hero coming to Dixon
• Area counties named disaster areas
• Rochelle man arrested in child porn sting
• Department of Agriculture offers loans for natural resource conservation
• Tri-City's speed show canceled
• Corn price outlook hard to tell for livestock farmers
• Kilbride named Illinois chief justice
• Northland Mall moves made
• Round 2 ahead on appliances program: Energy Star rebates kick in Sept. 24
• Budget preview: Families undercut
• Warm, dry fall may lead to wet winter
• 17th District now ‘toss-up’
• Your Weekend Top 5
• 6 arrested in UK in alleged terror threat to pope
• Crop outlook: Lower yields, higher corn prices forecast
• Obama names consumer advocate Warren to new post
• Hog farmer goes vegan after battling cancer
• Couple charged in nuclear weapons secrets case
• Fall gardening series continues
• Relief well intersects blown-out BP well in Gulf
• Carroll County 4-H members compete at state fair
• Jackson Jr. speaks out about Blagojevich trial
• Farm Bureau to host equine forum
• 'Sexting' DA rejects calls to resign
• Whiteside farm bureau foundation offering teacher grants
• Lesser deficit in RFHS budget
• Retreat offers camaraderie; builds trust among teens
• Make your mark at Paint the Town
• Hastert to attend Reagan Boyhood Home benefit
• 'Dutch' back on the silver screen
• Quinn, Brady both vague on state budget crisis
• Poll: Things looking A-OK for GOP
• Illinois company has low base bid on Iowa prison
• P-town veterans park vandalized
• FDA split on withdrawing diet pill Meridia
• Clinton Symphony's season opens in Sterling
• Parkway Center has fall festival Saturday
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Obama to publish children's book
• Autumn on the Prairie Saturday at Nachusa Grasslands
• Benefit Saturday for Oregon woman fighting breast cancer
• Seats on Boeing spaceships could go up for sale
• After blast, DOT seeks tougher pipeline oversight
• Fly-in this weekend in Erie
• Whitman breaks campaign spending record
• Jill Biden to host summit on community colleges
• More House Democrats call for tax cuts for all
• Arlington opens graves, finds 3 misplaced bodies
• SVCC foundation accepting donations for used book sale
• Sterling Rural Fire now seeks 3-year contract
• Latino population could be 
key in Chicago’s mayoral race
• Morrison police collecting medications Sept. 25
• Big night for tea party: O’Donnell wins Delaware
• Police searching for Prophetstown veterans park vandals
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Judge closes hearing on Sheley evidence
• Gov. Quinn picks private company to manage lottery
• Labor Department sues Tyson plant over hiring
• Morrison City Council budget meeting today
• FDA panel split on withdrawing diet pill Meridia
• Stimulus money to help local school districts
• More House Democrats call for tax cuts for all
• Indoor sports complex in play
• Taxpayers will feel sting if Congress doesn't act on expiring rate cuts
• Ashton man charged after 3-hour standoff
• Price to be set on Morrison’s 101-103 W. Main renovation
• VA sets it site for Sterling clinic
• Field days ahead for farmers
• Convicted molester Bickerstaff appeals to high court
• Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide
• Low level presents water hazard
• Investigation continues into police chief’s death
• Obama sees compromise on deficit, other issues
• Quincy man’s body found in river
• Senate GOP vows to block tax break
• West Nile cases increasing in Illinois
• Oprah starts last season: Winfrey taking audience of 300 
to Australia
• Planning ahead on parks
• Rep. Hare caseworker coming to Sterling
• Chili cookoff, art and music Saturday in Dxon
• RFHS board to vote on deficit budget
• FEMA approves state flood aid
• NTSB to conduct tests on failed state oil pipeline
• Cohen admits he doesn’t have answers
• Push for video gaming stalled again
• Annual Tootsie Roll sale nears for Knights of Columbus
• Records reveal two convictions
• Blagojevich asks judge to nullify conviction
• Adams wants murder case tossed: D.A. claims jury heard false, inaccurate testimony
• Primary showdowns: GOP establishment vs tea party
• Atherton case: Accuser still awaits trial a year later
• Iran state TV says US woman freed from prison
• 'Power of the Purse' funds free books
• Fellow Americans' suspicions frustrate US Muslims
• Iranian prosecutor ready to release American woman
• Flood victims face long road to recovery
• On cutting edge of building green homes — with hemp
• City savors return to normalcy
• Shaw Newspapers becomes Shaw Media
• New rules would be big change for pilots
• Coach at Northern Illinois hospitalized
• U.S. to test iris scanner database
• Road work starts Tuesday on Lincolnway/Route 2
• Boehner says he'd support a middle-class tax cut
• Lee County warns of unlicensed tattoo unit
• Production of stimulus-aided car batteries revs up
• Byron plant plans open house
• Coast to coast, tea partiers promote their cause
• Gubernatorial gaffs could doom Quinn
• China a focus of Illinois U.S. Senate race
• EPA says crews are closing in on source of Chicago oil leak
• Fires leave two Paw Paw families homeless
• Court call
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• New books at Franklin Grove library
• Awards given at Amboy Depot Days
• Movie night and craft day at Franklin Grove Library
• Dixon library announces new releases
• Whiteside County atlases available
• Cornstalk residue, co-products can cut cow feed costs
• Lee County Honor Flight veterans
• Whiteside 4-H offering pork chop barbecue Oct. 7
• First Medal of Honor given to living Afghan, Iraq vet
• Realizing Aggen’s dream: Legion strives to build Sterling’s own veterans memorial park
• The heroes’ welcome: Lee County’s first Honor Flight vets return to cheers
• State reviewing local records secrecy
• Upper Mississippi River named Wetland of International Importance
• 12 states warned about faulty propane
• Annual tree sale in Princeton
• Islam controversies cast shadow over 9/11 events
• Bureau County Soil and Water District 2010 Fall fish sale
• Daley: Passion for being Chicago mayor remains
• Bids being received for commercial fishing
• Chamber flies through busy year
• Soldiers allegedly kept 'trophy' body parts
• Grand jury indicts McHenry County state's attorney
• Report: US must deal with domestic radical problem
• Testimony done in 5-state suit to close locks
• Court ruling reaffirms regulation of immigration as federal domain
• Pilots invited to 'Old Fogeys Fly-In' Sept. 18 at Whiteside County Airport
• Police in Illinois say they've caught polite bandit'
• Bi-County board meeting
• Dixon Habitat for Humanity looking for applicants
• Mitchell wants to keep lottery in hands of government
• Freeport quarry offering information, games on Sept. 18
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Memory Walk to raise money to fight Alzheimer's
• Alzheimer’s Association features expert on reverse mortgages
• SVCC offers piloting course at airport
• New teacher luncheon Wednesday at Oregon Chamber
• Red Cross blood drive set for Sept. 14 in Sterling
• Bake sale to help fight hunger set for Wednesday
• Byron Forest Preserve offers badge program
• Children's programs offered at Second Reformed Church in Fulton
• Women's coffee break starts Tuesday in Fulton
• Local law enforcement survivors attend COPS kids summer camp
• Obama: Voter anger could hurt Dems in elections
• No arrests yet in beating, shootings
• Iran to free female American for holiday clemency
• It’s Fiesta time in Twin Cities
• Attorney: Wife of imprisoned ex-Ill. gov. Ryan is terminal
• Dixon Navy veteran survived POW camp
• Errant drone near DC almost met by fighter jets
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Gov't: Spending to rise under health care overhaul
• Sterling legion wants to build veterans park
• Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1950
• Multisports complex back in play
• California governor signs 'Chelsea's Law' on sex offenders
• Independent makes it a race in Lee
• Appeals court lets government halt torture lawsuit
• Congressional foes skip school: Candidates for 17th district cancel today's trips to SHS
• Prison conversion’s environmental impact minimal
• Chicago mulls future without Daley power at helm
• Voters have options to oust governors
• Obama firm: won't yield on tax hike for wealthiest
• Companies outline proposals to run state lottery
• CNN names Piers Morgan as Larry King's replacement
• Minister determined to hold 9/11 Quran burn
• Eureka College set to celebrate Reagan's 100th
• Polo chili cook-off, parade of lights set
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Giannoulias, Durbin to visit Rock Falls today
• Speeders, beware: 
State fines going up
• Ace of Cakes releases air date of local episode
• Polo makes health care switch
• Morrison home destroyed in fire, lone occupant escapes unharmed
• Bauer resigns from Council on Aging
• Rock River Sweep resumes Saturday
• Losing sleep over cuts: Dropped routes means added time on bus for some
• Rock Falls prepares for Reliant development; investors interested
• Fall into well kills man, 79
• Fla. minister cancels burning of Qurans on 9/11
• Report: Money can buy you happiness, to a point
• Alzheimer’s Association seeks brain program participants
• Ogle planning commission meeting canceled
• Chicago Mayor Daley won't run for re-election
• US church to go ahead with Sept. 11 Quran burning
• Colorado firefighters to step up attack on Boulder blaze
• Justice on the hot seat
• Raw power bottled up on the farm
• Stubborn Milledgeville grain bin fire finally doused
• Walk raises awareness of shaken baby syndrome
• Sterling Police have busy holiday weekend with several calls
• Quincy veterans' home to get $2.4 million upgrade
• Riverfront Commission is paving the way
• Rock Island woman killed in rural Thomson crash
• Tennis association block party Saturday at Sauk
• Court Call
• POLITICAL ASYLUM: Polls, money and the Greek draft
• Colleges buy land they don't know how they'll use
• Lambasting the GOP, Obama proposes $50 billion for road, rails and runways
• Refuge hooks kids on fishing
• Movie about Mississippi River adventure to be shown
• Prophetstown fire department breakfast is Sunday
• Designers attend Texas rally
• Duck race kicks off Memory Walk season
• Time to strike busy from conversations
• Sculpting on canvas workshop at Conover Square
• Meeting set for prospective adoptive parents
• Free health screening at Dixon Senior Center
• Charity for kids to be discussed at Rock River Center
• Hospice showing grief and healing movie
• Dixon Culver's employees receive scholarships
• Annual Bow Wow Luau planned
• Dog park implements new fee structure
• Quilters offer sewing machine, serger cleaning
• Sauk offering GED, English as a Second Language classes
• Art gallery accepting student entries for festival
• Bard Optical accepting donations to provide eye care
• Health department, KSB sponsor clinic to quit smoking
• NIU planning strategic changes
• Auction, ball, a benefit for CGH cooling device
• Wayward wind tower shuts down highway
• Embattled state prisons chief resigns
• Casey’s Prophetstown grand opening arrives
• Food pantries in danger of closing: Meeting set for possible consolidation
• Route 30 bridge work to start Tuesday near Fulton
• Client visits increase at area food pantries
• Gangs: Cops not playing fair
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Hog roast, blood drive Sept. 11 in Tampico
• Food safety groups slam USDA egg graders at farms in recall
• Karzai, NATO at odds over another Afghan airstrike
• Builders of NYC mosque face financial hurdles
• U.N. 1.3 million Haitians still live in camps months after quake
• As Mideast leaders talk, a key dispute looms
• Employers pass higher health costs to workers
• Earl sideswipes NC, takes aim at New England
• Powerful 7.4 quake hits New Zealand's South Island
• Professor in Miami scare once accused of hauling plague
• Gov. Quinn defends state handling of lottery bid
• It's official: Illinois' summer 2010 was hot, wet
• Pekin looks to have German sister city
• In Ill.: All campaign signs, all the time
• Creating a wall of memories: Lincoln Highway Coalition mural set for Sterling
• Mexico captures reported drug lord 'the Barbie'
• Number of illegal immigrants in US now declining
• Obama says Mideast peace moment 'must be seized'
• Coverage begins for some uninsured
• No sign of oil spill after Gulf platform fire
• Regulators say clean-coal plant would cost plenty
• Earl threatens East Coast with weekend pounding
• Police kill gunman who held 3 at Discovery Channel
• Fed Reserve Chairman: Shut down banks if they threaten system
• Man, 85, becomes Ill.'s oldest inmate
• Chicago gang members criticize 'gang summit'
• Gates: Iraq outcome will always be clouded by how it began'
• Illinois highways rank 40th in national report
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• The facts about immigration reform
• State investigates alleged tip-off of nursing home
• 2 more arrests made in Sterling car vandalisms
• Doing good deeds in the Gulf
• Man pleads not guilty to Citgo robbery attempt
• Brady: Tax cuts will increase state deficit
• Don't bank on it: Mixed messages mute optimism for sector's recovery
• Illinois reports year's 1st human West Nile case
• Island evacuations start as Earl nears East Coast
• Blind-vets program attracts younger clients
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Residents report tremors, could be quake
• FDA says Gulf seafood still safe despite oil spill
• Deere sells wind energy business for $900M
• Murkowski concedes Alaska primary race
• Rock Falls woman indicted on murder in baby's death
• Removing ovaries may prolong lives
• Hennepin and West First reopens today
• Local flood victims may be eligible for food stamps
• Dinner Thursday to benefit flood-stricken church
• Lee County's first honor flights leave next week
• Discovery gunman shot by police; 3 hostages safe
• Is Iraq combat really over for U.S.?
• Ex-Gov. Ryan wants part of conviction tossed
• Obama: With end of combat, priority shifts to economy
• Midwest meteor named Mifflin after Wis. township
• Toddler’s death still unsettled: Investigators await toxicology results; autopsy inconclusive
• Coverage begins for handful of Illinois uninsured
• ‘Step out of comfort zone’ and meet the candidates
• Diabetes disease now tops claims of Vietnam vets
• CGH Foundation nearing its goal
• Kirk talks trade, picks up Cat exec's endorsement
• Two years after closures, state parks on the rise
• Drilling begins in effort to free Chilean miners
• 5 more American troops die in Afghan fighting
• F-105 taking final flight
• NIU student charged with assaulting woman on campus
• Ex-general backs Giannoulias for Senate
• Ex-dump owner with Blago link faces charges
• Sinnissippi to celebrate recoveries
• Event for wounded veterans on Sept. 11
• Earl poses threat to East Coast
• Obama's goal: End Iraq war, then win Mideast peace
• After 400 years of quiet, Indonesian volcano erupts
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Bedbug fight causes condundrum
• Vehicles now earn letter grades
• Repairs to close pedestrian bridge
• Imam: Mosque foes a small, vociferous group
• Sauk board approves $7.1M bond sale
• Report: Bad bond rating costly for Illinois
• Obama says he isn't worried about Muslim rumors
• Work on U.S. 30 set to begin Wednesday
• Vendors welcome for Lioness craft show Saturday in Dixon
• Amboy farmer hits paydirt: 26-year-old pockets $26,717.50 in 50/50 raffle
• Hearts racing, guns blazing: Re-enactment provides living history of WWII
• Blago, Ryan: What gives? Voter apathy may play part in corruption
• U.S. wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq
• Chile miners must move tons of rocks in own rescue
• Mosque debate will shape American Islam
• 'Not a chance'
• Giannoulias gets retired general's nod for Senate
• Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary
• GOP's Brady proposes larger tax break for business
• Obama commits to revival
• Americans spend a bit more as economy limps along
• 'Katrina showed no mercy'
• Carroll County authorities investigating death of toddler
• Obama: GOP should let small business bill through
• Court call
• Two years after closures, state parks on the rise
• 'Mad Men,' 'Modern Family' win top Emmy Awards
• WIU student hospitalized with meningitis
• Wright criticizes those who think Obama is Muslim
• Spring Valley Church to have final outdoor service Sunday
• Women's bone health class starting Sept. 27
• Dixon library recognizes summer reading program sponsors, volunteers
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Camp Lowden to mark 70th anniversary
• Bits 'N Reins 4-H Club meets
• Council on Aging, senior center seek board members
• Churches must remain open to sinners
• Church offers healing service
• Ogle County 4-H Fair announces auction results
• USDA releases program details
• Farmer image campaign launched at state fair
• SIU’s Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory starts new program
• Retiring U of I Extension staff recognized
• Time to fight those pesky mosquitoes
• 4-H softball tournament played in Oregon
• Farm Visit Day spend on Henkel Farms
• Drivers honor cancer victim
• First Church of Nazarene throwing block party
• Hospice walking group starts Sept. 1
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Out of options on economy?
• To the beat of the drum
• No fright nights for Jaycees
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Slight jump in local unemployment rates
• Heating help begins Sept. 1
• NIU proceeding with new residence hall
• Attorney: Harassment charge unfounded
• Feds arrest 370 immigrants in 10 states
• Updated Whiteside County road atlas available
• Ford recalls 575K Windstar vans
• Five years after Katrina: The curse and hope of New Orleans
• Dozen cases of whooping cough in Tazewell County
• Toyota recalls 1.33 million Corollas, Matrixes
• Snapshot of economy about to get a lot bleaker
• Blagojevich headed for retrial in early 2011
• Lutherans split over gay pastors, Bible beliefs
• State police conducting safety check this weekend in Whiteside
• American imprisoned in N. Korea returns to Boston
• Billions in Katrina relief funds still unspent
• Engineers to remove temporary cap from Gulf well
• 'United Way is the community'
• Authorities search Ariz desert for deputy's killer
• Plan advances to apply 80 percent of health premiums to costs
• Early Nation of Islam documents found in Detroit
• Dixon firefighters asking filks to ‘Fill the Boot’ for MDA
• On Martha's Vineyard, Obamas savor local produce
• Rock River Center offering paper folding class in September, October
• Resignation surprised former inspector
• Komiskey worked to bring industry to Carroll County
• Report: State birth rate drops
• Ex-governor's defense may dip down on retrial
• Ballet Quad Cities gets crackin’ on ‘The Nutcracker’
• Dogs attack, kill boy visiting farm
• What’s going on
• Some 70 students fall ill at Tuscola school
• Rock Island Gran Prix offers free entry deal
• Quinn: Tax plan should include property tax relief
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Coyote found in Chicago gagor territory
• Brother denies assaulting woman: Rape case moves forward with evidence
• National trend doesn’t hit home
• WWII re-enactment set for Saturday in Dixon
• Illinois congressman calls 100 constituents daily
• Indiana drivers owe $7M in Illinois tolls
• Blagojevich wishes items weren't auctioned
• A second helping of "Dutch Treats" coming
• Preliminary bugdet grim
• Giannoulias hasn't asked Obama for 2nd visit
• Home burglarized? Fill out a form
• Ousted worker Sherrod rejects return to Ag agency
• NY archbishop worries about tone of mosque debate
• Chile miners stretched 2 days of food into more than 2 weeks
• Remaining U.S. troops still face insurgents, other dangers in Iraq
• Bond stays at $250,000 for armed robbery suspect
• Cops and Bobbers returns Sept. 25
• Stem cell ruling to be appealed; some work to stop
• Chicago pilot program to lengthen school days
• Eggs from Iowa farms could come to table near you
• Carp derby, tournament this weekend in Dixon
• Carter lands in North Korea to bring home American
• Annual plant fundraiser for Self-Help this weekend
• Pentagon computers attacked with flash drive
• Salmonella vaccine might have prevented egg recall
• More than 3 million seniors may have to switch drug plans
• Brady: Quinn owes better explanation about firing
• Recovery in danger as firms, homebuyers cut back
• Blagojevich's political return isn't legally impossible
• Exelon Nuclear plans $4.6 billion in projects, but not in Byron
• Attacks in Iraq kill 55, raise fears of insurgents
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Drug cartel suspected in massacre of 72 migrants
• DeKalb shelter offers low-cost spay/neuter program
• Oregon bans 'rooming houses'
• 5 in intensive care after Ala. plant ammonia leak
• 2nd Chicago River alligator caught
• Police say 27-year-old admits trying to rob Citgo
• A tightrope walk: Circus uncertain of future
• Deputy cleared in criminal investigation
• Raffle to benefit nursing home Christmas fund
• Joshua Park construction on track; basketball court up next
• Signup under way for Dixon Police citizens academy
• 2nd alligator spotted in Chicago's north branch
• Homeless man charged in tobacco store break-in
• Boy still critical following lightning strike
• Sterling man receives 8 years for attempted criminal sexual abuse
• Sterling man gets 8 years for attempted sex abuse
• Green candidate wants more than consideration
• Sentencing is likely to await Blagojevich retrial
• School board to discuss budget
• Jet misses runway, crashes in China; 42 killed
• Home sales free fall to lowest in 15 years
• Remaining US troops still face danger in Iraq
• Ousted worker Sherrod rejects return to Ag agency
• Illinois Gov. Quinn names new chief of staff
• Illinois loses chance on educational grants
• Eagle Scout’s project soars
• New law desinged to protect pet owners
• Blagojevich won’t rule out political return
• Court call
• Durbin supports mosque, cites religious rights
• Rallies over mosque near ground zero get heated
• 8 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus
• Rescuers expand lifeline to trapped Chile miners
• FDA commissioner says agency needs more authority
• Hostess says Decatur baking facility to close
• Passions rise at dueling NYC mosque demonstrations
• Candidates would merge treasurer, comptroller in Illinois
• Republicans blast Quinn over ethics probe
• Arrest made in Citgo attempted armed robbery
• Quinn's chief of staff resigns amid probe
• Boy hit by lightning ‘responsive’
• Illinois State Fair attendance up despite weather
• Teen club has a home for now
• Rock Falls native honors U.S. troops killed in Iraq war
• Federal agencies urging flood victims to apply for disaster relief
• Peace, love, happiness, art and music: Second Dixon festival a success despite heat
• ACLU: Eavesdropping law violates 1st Amendment
• Craft show, baked goods display set for Sept. 11
• SVCC to enhance campus prairie
• Church hosts farm heritage festival
• 4-H fundraiser planned
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Ashton girl competes in state pageant
• Gospel singers to perform in Fulton
• Conservation district photo contest winners announced
• Sign language classes to be in the fall
• If there is no resolution, consider forgiveness
• College honors
• Sheriff pledges to change campaign phone
• Sauk Valley Voter Education Committee to host voter fair
• Lyndon Historical Society elects new officers
• Morrison boy hit by lightning
• Cookout to support troops set for Aug. 27, 28
• Near-record corn crop is expected
• Bureau County Genealogical Society to meet Aug. 26
• Across the area, schools miss AYP
• World War II re-enactors coming Aug. 27-28 to Dixon
• Wisconsin’s loss is Illinois’ gain?
• Runner entering the homestretch
• Fiesta parade entries due
• Ogle, Carroll included in federal disaster declaration
• Polo man running for Ogle circuit clerk
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Saturday, Aug. 21 Saturday Morning Courag
• Hot diggity: Hot dogs coming to Page Park
• Thomson appraisal at $220 million
• Evidence: 
No foul play 
in Dixon drowning
• Agency suspends off-road events
• Studies link pesticides to hyperactivity
• 22 miles in invisible oily mist
• A constitutional renaissance?
• Plan commission OKs property split, rezoning
• Survey: More drugs, gangs in public schools
• Illinois to enroll uninsured in new high-risk pool
• Newman cheerleaders having fundraiser today
• Jobless claims jump; economists troubled
• Illinois unemployment 10.3 percent in July
• Goodbye summer and hello new school year
• ‘I enjoy watching people beg for their life’: Gunman contacts Facebook friend just befor
• Obama returns to backyard politics
• No timeline for completing relief well
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Appraisals find Thomson Prison worth nearly $220M
• Savanna to launch cancer fundraiser
• Jetliner grounded in San Francisco after threat
• Harvest Fest Aug. 27-28
• Vacation time for the president
• Big Top coming to Rock Falls Monday: Carson & Barnes bringing close to 100 performers, animals
• BP accused of withholding 'critical' spill data
• Farm Heritage Festival returns
• Primary losses blunt Palin's 'mama grizzly' claws
• Golf outing to feature auction
• Quinn campaign wants 7 debates with GOP's Brady
• Saving Sandwich’s opera house: Arts community scrambles to make up for lost revenues, grants
• Boeing plans new manufacturing site in Illinois
• Dixon theater to host Improv Olympics
• Baby slapping aboard flight sets off debate
• Vegas-style comedy coming to Starlight’s
• Safe at home
• Storytelling festival Sept. 3, 4 in Sterling
• Egg recall expanded to 380 million
• Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home
• Quinn doesn’t support mosque
• Blagojevich retrial looms; will it be different?
• Blagojevich jurors reflect on trial
• Rock Falls council OKs two-city court
• Potash calls Billiton bid “grossly inadequate”
• Surface looks clean, but oil lurks below
• City commissioner ready to retire
• GOP calls Obama insensitive over stand on mosque
• Oregon river cleanup Saturday
• Debate rages over national debt
• Dixon Methodist church offers new service
• Bills target negotiated delays on generic drugs
• Whiteside County to offer early retirement
• Craigslist suspect’s suicide methodical
• Twin City Market back-to-school event Saturday
• Study: Hearing loss for 1 in 5 teens
• Sand volleyball tournament for breast cancer set for Saturday
• Illinoisans react to Blagojevich verdict
• The 5 percent solution: Local retailers happy with tax holiday sales
• Law requires state utilities to purchase solar power
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Meet-and-greet with Hultgren Saturday in Paw Paw
• American Airlines to charge for front-row seats
• Red Cross blood supplies low, donations needed
• Insurgents, police clash amid Pakistan flooding
• Byron man killed while cutting up tree
• Obama at new low for handling economy
• Open house Friday for remodeled Ogle County Courthouse
• First mosque to open in Rockford
• Democrats work to distance selves from Blagojevich
• Dr. Laura plans to end radio show at end of year
• Timeline of events in Blagojevich corruption case
• Intersection at First, Hennepin closing Wednesday
• More time needed for well changes
• Honor Flight bags tourney, picnic Sunday in Walton
• Morrison's annual hydrant flushing coming up
• Report: Cancer is ‘economic killer’
• Deer dying in suburbs
• Quinn OKs tax amnesty program
• Company sued over acai pill free trials
• Polo rejects sewer plant contract
• Mount Morris man faces cocaine charges
• Cash Store will move to ex-Century 21 site
• States get funds for health premium oversight
• Sterling OKs Twin Cities court program
• Sterling celebrates loan: $1 million will be used for asbestos containment
• Woman grazed by train ticketed
• Hundreds converge on Dixon riverfront to commemorate V-J Day
• Woman grazed by train, breaks arm
• Note-worthy deliberations continue
• Dixon Wendy's may open by end of year
• Court call
• Mom's suit over sons' deaths moved to fed court
• Quinn appoints new executive inspector general
• Brady calls on Quinn to oust state prison chief
• Dixon woman tagged in suit after graffiti charges
• Saddle club offering horse show, trail ride on Saturday, Sunday
• Israel: No conditions for talks with Palestinians
• Advocates see trouble for misdiagnosed soldiers
• Teen sex not always bad for school performance
• Judge: Blagojevich jurors ask for transcript
• White House: Politics no role in mosque remarks
• Obama pleads to voters: 'Don't give in to fear'
• Gen. McChrystal to teach leadership at Yale
• Music festival draws big crowd to Rock Falls
• Quinn promotes tax credit, lashes out at Brady
• Sauk to receive $1.3M
• Doll house and miniature show set for Aug. 21
• 'Crop mobs' sprout on U.S. farms, offering free help
• Area Kiwanis members attend district convention
• Quality seed corn comes at a cost
• FULTON – Sallie de Reus presented Bicyclin
• From the Fields: Control weeds in grain stubble fields
• Decision-making process makes us family
• Saturday, Aug. 14 Saturday Morning Courag
• Healing touch for Alzheimer Association's
• Coast Guard petty officer honored
• Trail ride planned Aug. 28-29
• LSSI program raising awareness of elder abuse
• Quilt guild plans indoor picnic at church
• Local history trip planned
• Professor to give ecology presentation
• Lee County plat books for sale
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• Congressional candidate to appear in Rock Falls
• Transgendered youth to speak to PFLAG
• Quilter's guild sponsoring trip to expo
• Dixon Library announces summer reading contest winners
• Sterling Public Library offers new e-mail service
• Preschool from Carroll County consortium depends on funding
• Oregon Elementary School Artists of the Month
• Health department offers tips on avoiding illness
• Dixon to honor WWII veterans
• Homework Club to meet after Labor Day
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• School honors and awards for Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010
• Crafters, vendors sought for December craft fair in Oregon
• Amboy teacher rocks
• Golf course the place for midnight fishing
• Rock River Center offering fall classes
• Quilters club sees World's Fair entrants
• Area students receive Tri-County scholarships
• Prophetstown student a winner in poster contest
• Morrison Grand Squares have busy summer
• Dixon library offers downloadable audiobooks
• Mendota hospital offers health profile, AED class
• Teens volunteer at Hope Life Center
• Bill sends millions to Illinois schools
• State slow to pay, so Sterling caps pre-K enrollment
• Republican Brady wins state Chamber nod
• Dixon brothers appear in court Wednesday on sex assault charges
• 'Proud to Wear Pink!'
• Challand Middle School geothermal construction finished
• Horseshoe tournament scheduled for Saturday at Whiteside fair
• Setting a new stage at Latin American Social Club
• Man kills ex-fiancee, then self, as her co-workers watch
• Go Fish in the cards for Shannon
• Police: Not much revealed by autopsy
• Chicago’s iO Theater to perform one-night-only show Aug. 21
• Blagojevich jurors suggest they may be deadlocked
• Variety show, new website for area arts commission
• Some job-screening tactics challenged as illegal
• Obama suit maker marks anniversary of close call
• Century 21 closing its doors in Dixon
• What timing: Four sisters have four babies in 4 days
• Michigan beaches littered with garbage
• New DQ on the way for Oregon
• Census comes in $1.6 billion under budget
• Old-fashioned fun on tap Thursday night in Fulton
• Cold night crept by after crash killed Stevens
• Kane County reduces health care staff
• Easier access granted to fingerprints along U.S.-Mexican border
• Madigan talks fraud, senior safety
• Rangel wants House to expedite his hearing
• Dixon man found dead in the Rock
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Dixon dealership grows: Merger brings end to Sterling location
• Program acts as ‘Guardian’ over state’s nursing homes
• Another day at Blagojevich trial with no verdict
• Madigan makes the rounds: AG calls Sheley case one of the state’s most complex
• Sharing a vision for the riverfront
• Maytown Road closed for culvert replacement starting Monday
• Sterling rural fire district now seeks 4-year pact
• Police: 5-year-old Chicago twin shot to death
• Elgin mapping old infrastructure
• Kirk votes against jobs bill he praised earlier
• Company job openings drop for 2nd straight month
• Company withdraws DeKalb hog slaughtering plans
• Dan Rostenkowski, congressman sent to prison, dies
• Two die in one-car wreck
• Tropical depression halts drilling at Gulf well
• Woman rescued from Rock River
• Federal Reserve will buy U.S. debt
• Operation Sunscreen: Mary Kay consultants to accept donations for cause
• NY judge grants bail for angry flight attendant
• Edgar: Illinois needs Blagojevich saga behind it
• Blagojevich judge: No word from jurors
• Feds: Storms delay drilling for final BP well plug
• Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash
• Wahl seeks enterprise exemptions
• Habitat for Humanity's latest house on schedule
• Patriot Guard Riders: Members accompany soldiers’ coffins
• Ogle mom guilty of contributing to daughter’s neglect
• Rock Falls teen bound for ‘American Idol’
• Rock River reopens to recreation
• New hire, pre-K program topics of special meeting Thursday
• Rochelle man drowns in Lake Sule
• Thursday marks Dixon Municipal Band's season finale
• Dunaven loses bid for bond reduction
• Items needed for auction
• Antique tractor ride deadline nears
• Morrison preservation group seeks advice
• Whiteside Farm Bureau foundation readies for event
• House OKs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs
• China landslide toll rises to 700; Pakistanis flee
• States’ gambles bad bets for taxpayers?
• BP: Cement plug stopping Gulf oil leak hardened
• Little relief seen for public-sector layoffs
• Democratic candidates all but ignore their legislative successes
• Number filing for Social Security hits record high
• Jurors in Ryan trial can relate
• Brothers face sexual assault charges
• Court call
• Personal controversies define Illinois Senate race
• Four charged after crash
• Monthly bird walk set for Saturday near Thomson
• Food preservation program offered Saturday in Fulton
• Dixon native gets reacquainted with F-105 jet
• Sauk Valley cities busy trying to develop riverfronts
• North Korea fires artillery off west coast
• Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal dies at age 84
• Russia, US chase jet in hijack drill
• Illinois man honors fallen soldiers with flags
• NASCAR race in Illinois could add 500 jobs
• Far from ground zero, opponents fight new mosques
• Kirk says he'll likely support $26B jobs bill
• Slain victims gave years of service
• Alzheimer's program offered Friday in Oregon
• OSHA sends warning letter to grain bin industry
• 'Double loss' still hits Mount Carroll hard
• HP chief resigns
• More details about grain bin accident released
• Floods, mud kill more than 100 in India
• Mortgage rates dip below 4 pct. on 15-year loans
• 2 women saved in incident at Lake Michigan; 1 man dead, another missing
• Private schools feel the crunch
• BP, cleanup workers at odds on health effects
• Man accused of killing brother's cat
• Iowa, Illinois apply for federal rail funding
• We're now your good morning newspaper
• Bivins, other Republicans to push for answers
• Business focuses more on environment and less hiring of workers
• Blagojevich jurors end 8th day of deliberations
• No start yet for Dixon's Wendy's
• State regulators seek authority on health care rates
• Family-owned grain bins are out of OSHA's jurisdiction
• Attention shifts to penalties
• Sterling library announces upcoming events
• Blagojevich jurors start eighth day today
• Angel Food
• Community events
• Church to host blood drive
• U.S. charges 14 for supporting Somalia terrorist group
• Discussion will follow caregiving video
• Wyclef to run for president of Haiti
• Farm Visit Day draws near
• State aid bill passes in Senate
• Follow Jesus, the true plumb line
• Medicare fund will last extra 12 years, maybe
• Genealogical Society to revisit 1800s health care
• 2 dead, dozens injured in school bus crash in Missouri
• Yard sales stretch along historic route
• Your response to rejection is telling
• Military "stop loss" practice to end
• Whiteside health clinic offers mini-health fair
• Dixon library staff announce new releases
• Teachers hope $26M jobs bill keeps them employed
• Car show in Rock Falls
• Annual speed and fun show planned
• Fourth person was in bin at time of accident
• Prophetstown-area road closes down
• Whiteside SWCD sells trees and fish
• Inmate inquest postponed: McCann family discounts coroner’s finding, wants to offer more evide
• 18 states endure deadly heat wave
• Oregon High School cheerleaders win awards
• Tools for School provides supplies for needy students
• Energy Dept. alters FutureGen plans
• Eastman School of Dance earns national championship title
• Dixon church giving away donated items Aug. 14
• Jackson’s political hopes fade
• Artisans, crafters needed for Fulton Fall Festival
• Park district serves up tennis tournament
• Former Vietnam protester to retire
• Volunteers preserve natural areas in Whiteside County
• Trail rides and horse show planned
• Burris to appeal special election
• Kids bowl free Aug. 21 in Sterling
• Obama gathers support for Giannoulias
• Appeal filed over gay marriage ruling in California
• Variety showcase at Music Fest
• Doctor supports freedom for man in stabbing death
• About 20 bands ready for ‘Battle’ Friday in Tampico
• Bus company sued over crash by vomiting driver
• Sterling Dog Days offers contests for master, pup
• Woman accused of spray-paint vandalism
• Versatile musician to perform at Next Picture Show
• Foster visits Reliant site
• Christian concert at Northside Baptist
• United flight evacuated after landing gear problem
• 27-year-old gets 90 years in child sexual assaults
• Three arrested after $1.8M worth of pot found in home
• Preschool still up in the air
• Back-to-school shoppers catch a break
• Court denies Bickerstaff appeal
• 40 tycoons to donate half their wealth
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• GAO accuses four for-profit colleges of ‘deceptive’ statementsprofit
• Arts festival returns to Grand Detour
• Senate confirms Kagan as 112th justice
• Pow wow event to be held despite flooding
• WACC teachers given a reprieve: Staff laid off in March to return
• 1 survives drowning incident in La. river
• Reports: U.S. families spending less
• 9 dead in Connecticut shooting
• Lebanon, Israel continue conflict
• BP takes the ‘bullhead’ by the horns
• DuPage judge pleads guilty to hit-and-run
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Quinn wins backing of gun-control group
• Ex-deputy: Wyclef Jean to run for Haiti president
• Survey to question former Maytag workers
• 'Cold as ice' Conn. beer driver kills 8, himself
• Dixon man charged with sexually abusing girl
• Blagojevich attorneys, prosecutors to meet
• Dixon felon charged with stolen gun possession
• New law limits rights of debt settlement companies
• Record number of Illinois families on food stamps
• GE Morrison coming to a close
• A wind-breaker in Ogle County?
• Water, mud moves pow wow to town
• GOP criticizes Giannoulias for big bank loan to Rezko
• Telephone service restored at employment offices
• Hare: Make it in the USA
• Ogle close to new wind ordinances
• Police seeking information on graffiti vandalism
• Dance music is theme of Thursday band concert
• Police seeking suspect in theft of 3 computers
• Petunia Festival Board looks for new members
• Guilty plea in school break-ins
• Shoger to lead United Way campaign
• No holiday furloughs required for state workers
• Economic decline affects United Way’s fundraising
• Economic recovery falls to thrifty consumers
• Saving Mayor Aggen
• New law limits rights of debt settlement companies
• Stiffer OSHA penalties in effect: Program targets employers that ignore the law
• New ID theft targets kids' Social Security numbers
• Still no details in grain bin accident
• Gulf seafood declared safe; fishermen not so sure
• BP: Upcoming kill attempt might do the trick alone
• Combat in Iraq: One month to go
• States turn to tolls to fund roads
• Blagojevich jurors entering 5th day of deliberations
• Obama: US to leave Iraq 'as promised, on schedule'
• GOP sets its sights: Republicans look to erase Dems’ House majority
• Treasury: 5.6M hires qualify for new tax break
• Bikes and a bite to eat
• High court trims Miranda warning rights
• Newman whiz kid skipping ahead
• Jury convicts Hinckley teen of trying to rob bank
• Dutch first in NATO to quit Afghanistan
• The ex-gov has a fan club
• Doubt cast on U.S. stability talk
• Grain bin survivor out of the hospital
• Mullen: U.S. tries to shield Afghans named in leak
• Weather service says Rock receding in Byron
• ‘Inception’ continues its dream run at No. 1 for third week
• Dunk an officer at Dixon's annual Night Out
• Pakistanis critical of flood response
• Court call
• UAE, Saudis plan BlackBerry ban
• Sportsmen's club offering free archery shoot Aug. 21
• Bank bailout ban in name only
• As spending by wealthy weakens, so does economy
• Michigan oil spill site improving
• ‘Hope’ in stem cell research
• Gulf crews set to start plugging well for good
• Jurors get back to work at Blagojevich trial
• New ID theft targets kids' SS numbers
• Whiteside County gears up for 140th annual fair
• Dixon couple attends D-Day ceremonies in Ireland
• Ogle County Hospice hosts movie night
• Blood drive supports hospital patients
• Sauk accepting items for used book sale
• Lions accepting registration for Amboy Depot Days parade
• Premium books available for fair
• Folk and jazz musician performs Aug. 13 in Dixon
• Morrison entry in Lincoln Highway sale
• The one-on-one approach
• Pastor's Corner
• 7/31 Military
• Get a jump-start on Reagan anniversary
• Hunter education courses in Polo, Byron
• NCILC plans future meetings
• Sterling hairstylist attends event in New York
• Sauk Valley Newspapers has an early deadli
• Chicago Art Institute employee visits Campbell Center
• Lauren Styczynski is Sterling High School's May Student of the Month
• Free health screening offered
• Toyota recalls 412,000 cars in U.S. to fix steering
• Arizona appeals judge's order
• Panel hits Rangel with 13 charges
• Blagojevich jury goes back to work
• Democrats catch a break in Blago trial
• Law increases nursing homes staffing, oversight
• U of I says fired instructor offered job
• Village basking in Clinton wedding spotlight
• Mount Carroll remembers teens
• Grain bin tragedy 'very preventable'
• Look, up in the sky!
• Mishandled Arlington grave numbers soar
• Feds, farmers create safe habitat for migrating birds
• Arts festival returns to Grand Detour
• Spend an evening in the president’s shadow
• New BP station going up in Oregon
• Carnation site to be cleared before festival
• Family sues over 79-year-old’s death at veterans home
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Around-the-clock booze sales OK’d
• Sentencing gap lessened
• Law gives Illinois tollway tougher watchdog
• AP survey: Economic outlook looks bleaker
• Arizona immigration law blocked
• 3 arrested during Arizona immigration protest
• OSHA: Grain bin accident should not have happened
• Ousted USDA employee Sherrod plans to sue blogger
• Peace Corps volunteer in need of help
• ROE will continue to handle Sterling truancy cases
• Rangel wary as panel prepares ethics charges
• Stanford study identifies Parkinson’s trigger
• Gulf cleanup will change once oil stops for good
• Register now for Amboy pageants
• 4 killed in plane crash at Alaska military base
• Sterling to discuss truancy program
• 1 confirmed dead in grain bin
• Sterling gets going on riverfront
• Illinois reaches finalist status again for stimulus money
• Next BP chief vows to clean up
• Two portraits of Blago
• GM sets base price for electric Volt at $41,000
• Sterling plans to eliminate five school bus routes
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Audit: Pentagon can’t account for $8.7 billion in Iraqi funds
• Rededication of revamped Ogle courthouse is Aug. 20
• Low-interest loans available
• Geothermal construction on track
• Mortgage titans’ future to be debated
• 5 bus routes to be axed in Sterling
• House voting for war funds, despite Afghan info leaks
• High waters put off river sweep
• Sauk board OKs $7.1M bond sale
• Fiesta Cancun to open soon in Dixon
• GOP blocks campaign finance measure
• Power grid upgrades could pose security risks
• Morrison City Council OKs $1.4 million budget
• Farewell for ‘The Last Time’
• USGS keeps a watchful eye on the Rock River
• Sauk Valley declared disaster
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Fingerprint initiative draws fire
• Quinn says a dual senate election won't be pricey
• Tests study blood’s shelf life
• Consumer confidence retreats further in July
• Government OKs unapproved iPhone apps
• US braces for blowback over Afghan war disclosures
• Economists: Home prices may weaken
• Koreas mark truce, but drills underscore tensions
• After school programs will be under state watch
• Blagojevich attorney: Government didn't prove case
• Kirk proposes 7 debates, forums in Senate race
• Blagojevich's life-size Elvis may be auctioned off
• Reliant reduced to rubble
• ‘I’m willing to go to jail for this’
• Area music boosters present musical event Sunday
• Council OKs new police vehicles
• Pentagon scrambles to assess Wikileaks damage
• Quinn, Daley tout new Chicago-built Ford Explorer
• Cleanup under way following Chicago area storms
• Protesters seek ouster of officials in Bell, Calif.,
• Obama's message to voters: Things could be worse
• Boy Scouts try to adapt to new world
• BP's Hayward to leave as CEO; Russia job in works
• ID mix-up: Family planning funeral now has hope
• Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba's Revolution Day
• Guards allowed prisoners to get out
• US shows its power to NKorea with carrier drills
• Economists' optimism wanes
• Jailer found guilty of war crimes in Cambodia
• Disney is in talks to buy Playdom
• Special Illinois Senate election up for discussion
• Ford set to unveil redesign of vehicle that sparked SUV revolution
• New Illinois Blue Book contains error
• Could American might take over Britain's BP
• Khmer Rouge jailer found guilty of war crimes
• Support Groups, Clubs and Services
• Explore Illinois: John Deere Historic Site

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