Sterling, IL News

• Sterling, IL News
• Two released from hospital following motorcycle accident
• 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
• 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?
• Mobile home destroyed by fire
• Burning power line in Sterling
• Police: Missing kids vandalized Dixon home to tune of $10,000
• 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
• 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
• 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 Elementary principal retiring
• Washington principal retiring
• June Street Fair features art, music, demonstrations
• 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
• 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
• Dixon kids found safe, police say
• Dixon students skip school, prompting mini manhunt
• 'Greening' of Reagan Middle School grounds
• 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
• 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'
• No new leads, tips in ATM thefts
• Sweet treat in Dixon
• 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
• 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
• Helping Spc. Michael Shoemaker Jr.
• 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
• IDNR: Turbines threaten species
• Honoring those who sacrificed
• 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
• 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
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Police arrest eight after monthslong sting
• Shaw newspaper, citizen honored by Oregon Chamber of Commerce
• Sheriff: Man wanted on old DUI case
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Sheley trial delayed until September
• Mock found not guilty
• Dixon man loses truck to electrical fire
• Fire breaks out in Oregon
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Blessing of the Bikes
• Malloy ordained as Rockford bishop
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• State park patrons worry about impact of proposed fees
• Thieves break in, steal ATM machines from Sterling mall, restaurant
• 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
• 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
• Walking for funds at St. Mary's
• Feeding the ducks in Rock Falls
• 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
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Bring peanut butter, jelly to church Sunday
• Sheriff warns of phone scam
• Riverfront development moving along behind the scenes
• Two Sterling women injured in crash
• Casting off with a bit of luck in Dixon
• Route 2 resurfacing starts Friday
• Battle of the Bands needs warriors
• 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
• Crane holds up traffic in Dixon
• Tracking ‘dinosaurs of the prairie'
• Boy hit, injured in parking lot
• Democrats nominate candidates for state House, Congress
• Supporters want to know where the money has gone
• 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
• Prosecutors rest in Mock trial; testimony resumes Thursday
• Donating blankets to KSB Hospital
• Newman grad offers advice for college-bound students
• 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
• ‘Many eyes’ to prevent fraud, Sterling official says
• Two part-timers may be out of work after Riverdale annexation
• Crundwell pleads not guilty to wire fraud
• 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
• 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 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
• Morrison man gets jail, probation for home invasion
• Crundwell plea due Monday in federal court
• NCCHS Student of the Month: Adam Wiegmann
• Hydrant flushing starts Monday in Dixon
• Detective says department is listening to public's tips
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sterling mayor backs proposed housing project
• Scenario played out elsewhere
• P&P plant opens in Sterling
• 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
• Opening arguments focus on cause of baby's fatal injury
• Baby’s parents testify on the first day of Patti Mock trial
• May Crowning at St. Mary School
• 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
• 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
• Indictment: Crundwell defrauded $53 million since 1990
• Montmorency School students participate in incubation, embryology program
• Fishing along the Rock River
• 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
• 2-month police investigation leads to drug arrests
• Garbage truck tips, spills its load; driver injured
• Judge hears confession debate in Adams murder case
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Destinations added to Chicago tours
• 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
• 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
• Fourth Fridays goes tropical in April
• Farmers planting earlier this year
• ‘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
• 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
• Lantern release postponed
• Tea anyone?
• 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
• 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
• Crundwell case: Warrants revealed
• Feds release fruit of Crundwell search warrants
• Dillon Elementary students learn about careers
• Students learn about careers at Dillon
• Marine Adam Devine to return in July
• 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
• Crundwell fired
• Dixon fires Crundwell
• 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
• Kiwanis groups prepare Reagan home for season
• Expert: This case is 'huge,' 'extraordinary'
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Crundwell removed from city website
• Recall not an option
• Career Day at Dillon Elementary School
• '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
• City to consider immediate dismissal of Crundwell
• Council set to fire Crundwell
• Crundwell ‘a dominant person in the industry’
• How did the auditors miss the missing millions?
• Sculpture worth double offer from Zadkine, appraiser says
• New turf a go; basketball coach resigns
• Fulton working on capital improvement plan
• 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
• 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’
• 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
• Volunteers prepare for book giveaway
• Polo police seek information in garage, vehicle break-ins
• Local superintendents: Consolidation should be decided locally
• Comptroller stole millions, feds say
• FBI arrests Dixon comptroller
• Lee County board delays vote on wind farm rule changes
• Volunteers help nearly 2,000 with tax returns prepared for free
• Tax returns prepared for free
• 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
• 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
• Some damage reported after weekend storms
• Lightning starts fire at Coleta barn
• Three charged in Stillman Valley break-ins
• 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
• Column: How about a museum?
• Transit bids over budget
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Altona milk truck driver dies in crash east of Morrison
• Flash mob in Dixon
• Sterling stormwater utility fee still taking shape
• Decision time on Lee County wind rules
• Brianna Henson, 17, of Sterling, is Newman
• 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
• Your Weekend Top 5
• YWCA recognizes community’s pearls
• 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
• 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
• Man found not guilty on rape charges
• Founders Day celebration in Dixon
• Founders Days celebration in Dixon
• 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
• 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
• Homing Pigeon Racing
• 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
• 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
• Fraternity gets 3-year suspension
• University suspends fraternity until 2015
• Catching air at Oregon Park West
• 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
• 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
• Easter Eggstravaganza in Sterling
• Column: Working at the committee level
• ‘A nice way to give back’ at Easter celebration
• Sterling agency reports surplus
• 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
• Tracking eggs in Dixon
• Know Your Neighbor: Karla Brooks
• Family: 'Positive morning' for wounded soldier
• Music to his ears: Implant restores man's hearing
• 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
• 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
• Big crowd at wind debate no surprise for Whiteside County
• Rolling Thunder welcomed home
• Accidents close streets; no one injured
• Update: Accidents cause street closures in Dixon
• Educating at the Tunnel of Oppression
• More ‘heated’ talk about downtown Oregon plans
• Sheriff worries about mental health cuts
• Astec Mobile Screens having open house
• 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
• Donate online to injured soldier's family
• Fraternity suspended after White Pines tragedy
• Oregon man wins art contest
• Column: Jobless numbers aren't exact science
• 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.
• 1644th returning home Thursday
• Bomb threat shuts down Rock Falls businesses for about an hour
• 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
• 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
• Easter Egg Hunt in Rock Falls
• 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
• 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
• Art on display in Dixon
• Breaking down the drug chain
• Dixon Student of the Month
• Path plans pushing forward
• 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
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Presenting the Sauk Valley Community Concert Association lineup
• Into the jumble: Park district adds 'rummage sale' to farmers market
• Time short for Sterling turf funding
• 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
• Readying the Riverfront for spring
• 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
• 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
• Area courtrooms opened to cameras
• CGH CEO Andersen retiring; Steinke to replace him
• Stocking up in Rock Falls
• 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
• Man gets second 2-year sentence in child porn case
• Proposed wind setback would be state’s longest
• Update: Company trying to set energy pathway through northern Illinois
• Council: Sell crumbling Morrison building
• Proposed wind turbine setback distance would be state's longest
• A new kind of chair-ity
• Silent auction of artistic endeavors to raise money for beautification projects
• New Whiteside County history book in the works
• 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
• 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'
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Open Hand Self Defense
• Road work on U.S. 30 set to start
• Anti-bullying counselor speaks
• 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
• 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
• Panel backs fee increases
• Founder’s Day focuses on Shaw family
• Enjoying the weather at Scheid Park
• 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
• 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
• Arellano concedes 90th District primary to Demmer
• Arellano concedes 90th primary to Demmer
• Autopsy results 'inconclusive' in latest death
• Traffic worker hit by semitrailer, dies
• Two part-time teachers let go
• Rock Falls passes $22 million balanced budget
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Another body found in park
• Another body found in Pine Creek
• Another body found in White Pines creek; foul play not suspected, sheriff says
• Viering: City must ‘embrace new ideas’
• Santorum campaign confirms details on Dixon visit
• Amboy man pleads guilty to impersonating cop
• Candidate event set for Monday at Erie library
• 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
• 'West Side Story' opens tonight
• Santorum campaign confirms Dixon visit
• Santorum firms up Dixon plans
• 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
• 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
• One more chance to speak on wind rules
• Arickx spells out need for addition
• Dixon a campaign stop for Santorum?
• 2-day event expected to draw 7,000
• Hunts for kiddies and doggies on tap
• Warming up for spring
• United Way of Whiteside surpasses fundraising goal
• No more warnings for using phones near schools
• Sterling's building inspector to retire
• Farmers ahead on work
• Fourth Fridays: Local artists invited to showcase talent
• What's going on
• Official: Let judge decide on Lee landfill
• Electrical safety presentations set
• Superintendent spells out need for addition
• 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
• 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
• Dixon band discussions discordant
• Officials dispute Lee landfill contract
• Students get taste of college life
• Historic district 
do-over requested
• 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 decorator says vintage items in for Sauk Valley Home and Garden Show
• Court Call
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Vintage items in, Dixon decorator says
• Morrison looks at letting bars open on Sunday
• City looks at lifting Sunday bar ban
• Two fires break out; no serious injuries
• Upgrades take nuclear plant unit offline
• No serious injuries in two fires
• From a blank canvas to a work of art
• Column: Rock River Trail Initiative building steam
• Mitchell endorses Dixon native
• Outgoing state rep taps Dixon native
• 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
• RFHS Student of the Month
• Dixon man charged with sexually assaulting child
• Sterling woman plays beat the clock in search
• 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'
• 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
• 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
• 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
• ‘Lipstick Killer’ dead at 83
• Looking back, and ahead: History and politics are Sidmore's passions
• Police release surveillance shots of Walmart thieves
• 'Lipstick Killer' dead at 83
• First stage of reconstruction project completed
• First stage of First Avenue Bridge project completed
• 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
• 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
• No cause yet in student’s death
• N.Y. man dead after being found at White Pines
• Back on the campaign trail
• Two contested districts, four fewer seats
• Primaries for board seats aren't competitive
• 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
• Kids have a hoot during Dixon festival
• SwedishAmerican oncology services in Dixon expanded
• 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
• Happy Seuss-Day!
• A wintry walk in the park
• Candle the culprit? Maybe not
• 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
• 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
• ‘Vagina Monologues’ returns
• 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
• 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
• Mallary's statement to school board
• Not on the lunch menu
• '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
• 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
• Rock Falls eighth-grader wins county spelling bee on his 14th birthday
• Happy bee-day!
• 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
• 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
• Depot Avenue closed today in Dixon
• Pinewood Derby Races 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
• God, family and music: Pastor uses talents and life lessons to make a difference
• Annual Second Look dress sale in Dixon
• Lee County plaques honor WWII dead
• Know Your Neighbor
• New restaurant to open in Dixon
• Open for Business: Good Times Pizza and More
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sterling alderman draws from past, looks to future
• Open for Business: Fun Jump
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This weekend's Top 5
• Skating through winter
• A chat with actress Rondi Reed
• 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
• 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
• Big cost overrun on Morrison sewer project
• Big cost overrun on Morrison project
• Taking a Second Look
• 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
• 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
• Four years later, NIU remembers tragic anniversary
• 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
• Police looking for stabbing suspect
• Bivins among new endorsements for Manzullo
• No injuries in Milledgeville fire
• Jump Rope for Heart
• 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
• Police installing a medical drop box
• 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
• 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
• Arduini hopes new site drives traffic downtown
• Aguilar receives endorsements from former Bustos peers
• 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
• Laundromat in Amboy destroyed by fire
• AG: City broke meetings law
• Help for struggling pet owners
• 'Lost in time' in the library
• 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
• Rock Falls District OKs project bonds
• Sacco-Miller plans campaign events
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Three arrested in Wednesday's liquor store burglary
• 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
• 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
• Local circuit to be first with cameras in courtrooms
• 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
• Controversial historic district will be revisited
• Cheerleaders heading to state
• Power loss shuts down one nuclear plant unit; public in no danger
• 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
• Schools must serve breakfast next year
• Pinewood derby races in Sterling
• 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'
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Dixon motorist ticketed after striking two pedestrians
• Update: No cause yet in 'suspicious' Rock Falls death
• 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
• Board passes bilingual program improvements
• Bird of prey
• No citations in Tampico electrocutions
• Rock Falls man attacked, robbed outside liquor store
• 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
• 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
• 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
• ‘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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• State's top court reinstates Sandholm's 2008 defamation suit
• Schools close early due to snow
• 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
• Wife gets probation for role in Cash for Gold robbery
• Case against roommate dropped
• Big crowd shows up for school board
• Dixon concert to air on TV
• 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
• Democrats plan to win back 17th
• Wrestler: Coaches involved in hazing
• 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
• 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 of review members explain their resignations
• Review board openings filled
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Area boasts high-tech hospitals
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• A quiet end for Dixon's fly-in
• Man charged with dealing cocaine
• Does county need an image overhaul?
• Comets aiming to get to state meet
• Rock Falls declares snow emergency
• Sterling Coliseum renovations to begin mid-April
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Who's writing wind rules?
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Unger: Village can’t afford Quad/Graphics plant
• Village President: Mount Morris can't afford Quad/Graphics plant
• Disciplinary group files complaint against local attorney
• Complaint filed against local attorney
• New senior center finally opens its doors
• 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
• 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
• Polar Bear Plunge
• 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
• 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
• A lot of noise about noise
• Candidate: Durbin asked me to withdraw
• Marine from Dixon injured in Afghanistan
• Overheard conversation results in arrest
• Sears, Kmart cuts haven't touched Sauk Valley yet
• Districts honored for performance
• Working behind the curtain
• Possible Durbin endorsement causes stir
• Woman sought in Kohl's burglary
• Crash victim a youth pastor in Tenn.
• 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'
• Oregon couple won’t be charged
• Oregon woman accused of sexting student won't be charged
• Two for tea in Dixon
• Voters to decide electric supplier issue
• Construction to begin Tuesday on First Avenue span
• 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
• Car slams into house; driver hospitalized
• Rock Falls man killed in accident
• Man dies after truck hits back of semi
• 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
• Area liquor store workers arrested
• No one claiming body of murderer
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Raid raises concerns of heroin surge
• Know Your Neighbor: Kami Lappin
• Student of the Month: Senior Maddie Degelau
• October Student of the Month: Aaron Brenner
• Know Your Neighbor: Marge Jackley-Koehler
• 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
• Police: Break-in an ‘isolated incident’
• School board extends superintendent's contract
• 18-year-old jumped, beaten
• 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
• Lee County Board nixes nepotism policy
• Lower power rates possible
• 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
• Council OKs budget
• Should city employees live in the city?
• Dixon City Council OKs budget
• Fire claims riverfront home in Nelson
• Liquor sales time extended
• Countdown to Christmas
• Liquor code change allows more time for sales
• Driver in fatal crash indicted
• 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
• 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
• Council to vote on budget without firefighter contract
• Company builds a new loading dock
• Transformer assembly company building a loading dock
• Whiteside County launches online notification service
• Santa makes a visit
• Know Your Neighbor: Barbara Schwamberger
• Student of the Month: Eric Ardis
• Student of the Month: Rosa De La Torre
• 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
• Sheley wants first Whiteside trial moved
• Your Weekend Top 5
• 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
• Teen pleads not guilty in gun case
• Technology a catch-22 for teachers
• Judge removed from Adams case
• Bollman, Liston first on ballot
• 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
• Legis Studios tuned in to local scene
• Handel’s Messiah comes to Dixon
• 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
• Dixon man charged with pulling knife at Sauk
• Commission OKs keeping maintenance head
• Whooping cough makes presence felt in northern Illinois
• 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
• VA clinic ribbon-cutting and open house Friday
• VA Clinic ribbon-cutting, open house set for Dec. 16
• Giving back is a great gift, indeed
• Jo-Ann Fabrics to hire 30
• Train depot turns 100; celebration Tuesday
• Jo-Ann Fabrics to open Sterling store
• 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
• 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
• Barber shot by deputy dies
• Dixon City Council to vote on parking
• Police: Armed homeowner detains trespasser
• 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
• Manzullo stops in Dixon today
• Clean Line has two local public events
• 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
• More Whiteside incumbents running
• Lee County's top prosecutor seeking re-election
• Sterling teen gets 4 years probation
• Decision delayed on out-of-district tuition
• Morrison School Board OKs request to lower 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'
• Historic Sterling Victorian open for holiday tour
• Oregon senior center finally moving
• 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
• Charges pending in SUV fatality
• Prosecutor in the running for state’s attorney office
• Mabley possibly spared for now
• 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
• 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
• Landowner: 'My rights not for sale'
• SUV kills pedestrian, crashes into house
• Quest for a smarter game
• Almost 80 businesses participate in Small Business Saturday
• Morrison school district eyes more course offerings
• No more drawers full of index cards
• Court Call
• Police still looking for suspect
• 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'
• Holiday boutique opens
• One cited for selling tobacco to minor
• 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
• Two Ogle teens arraigned in drive-by shooting
• Kallemeyn to make state's attorney bid
• Sheley judge allows testing of DNA evidence
• 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
• State Route 2 reopens after 7 months
• Budget slashed, but band plays on
• Who must report child abuse?
• STERLING Proposed levy calls for slight tax increase
• Prophetstown takes action on late bills
• Police searching for pickup thief
• 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
• Mustangs roll to state
• Dixon City Council to vote on funding band
• 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
• Sterling Police win $8,500 grant
• Some city workers get raises
• Lee County budget passes easily
• Number of water main breaks up
• Lee County budget passes with little dissent
• Cause of death still being determined
• 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
• Black Hawk Down soldiers to attend benefit
• Police seek help in car shop break-in
• Amboy fire district gets state grant
• ROCK FALLS East Second Street expected to be completed this week
• Sterling chess team makes its next move
• Arduini: Economy would be priority
• Lessons on and off the court
• Sterling Elite basketball players serve up a dinner at homeless shelter
• Country Store opens at new spot
• From homeless to full of hope
• Single mother of four receives the key to her new Dixon house
• 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
• Council looks at snowmobile rules
• Dixon man charged with sexually abusing teen
• New Sterling Main Street leader a lover of downtowns
• Coroner still waiting for DNA test results
• Official: 28th Street problem corrected
• Echo editor put in tough situation
• 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
• Prescription drug dropoff today
• Ashton moves legal ads, raising questions
• 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
• Panels recommend continuing fire chief partnership
• District may privatize its food service
• Water company seeking rate hike
• Chamber to have 2012 cookout on riverfront
• Morrison sports complex nets state honor
• Occupy protests to be held on Fridays
• 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
• Schools superintendent retiring in 2015
• Franklin Grove man accused of 'severely' injuring boy
• DIXON 'Reagan of Illinois' makes Grammy ballots
• Father drops request for no contact orders
• PROPHETSTOWN Park district foes press on
• 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
• Lemons wants sentence reduced
• Board member absent 18 months
• DIXON Consultant to answer questions on historic downtown district
• Dixon: No charges yet in Moroney crash
• 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
• Development groups want director
• Ex-coach's wife accused of 'sexting' teen
• Tablet users to get reader-friendly app, Shaw Media says
• 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
• Ashton man accused of abusing Sterling teen
• A new Peck-ing order for ABC AmeriCorps
• Pet costume contest, adoption event at mall
• 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
• 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
• 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 police train for dangerous stops
• Golf carts getting a green light in Dixon?
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Slower harvest this season
• Two accused of looting twice-burned house
• 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
• Lower electric payments in Sterling?
• Most speakers against Mabley closure
• Lower electric payments in Dixon?
• Cause of Palmyra Road fire under investigation
• Oregon man accused of running over Chana man
• 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
• No early retirement packages this year
• Lee County panel wants to help food pantry
• Tax-free splash for village?
• 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
• 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
• What are Lee board chairman’s plans?
• Tracks set to open soon
• Village says no to wind farms
• Boil water advisory lifted in Sterling
• 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
• 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
• Sterling under boil order
• 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
• Rock Falls man charged with harboring runaway has Oct. 18 pretrial
• Bringing city websites up to speed
• Taking on the trash
• 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
• 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
• Teen charged with sexual assault
• Sterling farmer accused of pulling gun on a seed rep
• DHS chief, Bivins tour Mabley Center
• Armed robbery in Ohio
• 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
• Taxes fund Dixon band, while Sterling also raises funds
• New trial in armed robberies for Dixon man
• Students help fill up local pantries
• 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
• Decision on confession moved to Thursday
• School board considering Marshall gift
• Final riverfront plan ready for unveiling
• City, business looking to swap land parcels
• Two arrested, one wanted in downtown bar fight
• Quinn told no closures or layoffs
• Three charged in apartment fight
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Possible 
foe critic 
of state’s attorney
• Sewer plant project will cost millions
• Iowa man charged with possession, DUI
• 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
• Volunteers to fast, sleep in boxes
• Whiteside County rolls out new website
• Sex offenders must register with campus police
• 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
• 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
• Wisconsin woman dies in motorcycle crash
• New column offers insight into Sterling-Rock Falls
• Open for Business: Martin's Steaks and Spirits
• 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
• Teen Reach folds due to lack of funding
• 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
• Girl charged with battery in SHS fight
• 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
• Riverdale moving toward dissolving into RF13
• Next year’s budget $1.6 million in the black
• Angel Food Ministries goes out of business
• 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
• Budget on tonight's agenda
• Sinnissippi Centers wins printer
• Crawford Realty gets the OK to move to residential area
• 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
• Prosecution lays out its 'trail of evidence'
• Jury finds Sheley guilty on all counts
• Sheley trial update: Jurors deliberating case
• Sheley trial update: Sheley won't testify at first murder trial
• 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
• Paint the Town celebrates 17 years
• $4,300 in legal bills spent to keep texts secret
• Charges, citations still being considered
• In the fast lane: Blackhawk throws out old perception of bowling alleys
• 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
• State stops help for funerals
• Local government on the air
• 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
• 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
• Make yourself at home
• 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
• 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
• Greyhound drops Dixon from service
• Wife testifies about why she didn't call police
• No answer from board chairman
• 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
• Scholarships and Donations
• Angelos "Roma Villa Pizza" fundraiser for the Harvest Moon Ball Dance Championships
• Sauk Valley College Ballroom Dancing begins Sept. 19
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sauk Commons 'fine and solid'
• 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
• 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
• Public Works committee to tour new sewer plant
• 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
• 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
• 28-year-old charged with sexually assaulting a teen
• 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
• Ogle County man gets 2 years in prison
• 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
• Back to School for Sterling - Bus Schedules, Lunch Menus, School Supplies and more
• Sheley has 2 Whiteside judges removed from case
• DOWNTOWN STERLING Water line break closes 3 businesses
• 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
• Benefit set for terminally ill child
• Roadwork to start Wednesday south of Mount Carroll
• Dutch's last Eureka classmate dies at 101
• Politics blamed in party cancellation
• Official: ‘Something doesn’t smell right’
• More people attended this year’s fair
• Bikers show pink pride
• City, meet country
• 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
• Police: Teen used hammer to attack man
• 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
• Main Street executive director resigns
• 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
• Longtime plan commission member booted
• World conquerors: Big third inning pushes Sterling to win in title game
• Obama at Whiteside County Fair
• 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
• Elvis impersonator charged in scam
• 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
• 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?
• Record-setting Reagan Trail Days full of surprises
• 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
• 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
• Worker falls at Mississippi dam
• 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’
• Couple pleads not guilty
• Toxicology report pending in death
• Few tips on missing migrant worker
• Amboy teen hoping to save House program
• Wind company promotes project
• Commission, tourism board 
still discussing partnership
• Road, bridge work begins today
• Official wants all towns protected
• Health insurance going up for city workers
• Union deal to include raises
• Still no word on Mabley Center
• Local woman not cited in crash into building
• Police still looking 
at leads
• Volunteer needed for Dixon Rural Fire
• Vote on tentative budget likely tonight
• 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
• Total compensatory time?
• 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
• Your Weekend Top 5
• 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
• Police investigating rash of car burglaries
• Mville man injured in motorcycle crash
• Owner: Lightning suspected as cause
• Group studies fiber-optic plan
• Hillsdale man pleads guilty to scrap metal theft
• Advocates hope grain bin safety increased
• Trial set in April shooting incident
• Former 1644th soldier takes command of unit
• A lifting of spirits in Sterling
• No raise in base pay for teachers this year
• Longtime attorney Ehrmann dead at 62
• Rock Falls woman pleads guilty to drug, stun gun charges
• Sentencing hearing set in burglary case
• Man gets 7 years on meth charge
• Investigators still looking for answers
• FULTON Boy pleads guilty in deadly fire
• Search winding down for missing man
• Best friends forever
• Tools for School deadline approaches
• Local graduate riding to raise money
• Man sentenced in year-old stabbing
• Irrigation systems have their dangers
• Old photos shared in a new way
• City may move its meeting site
• Small post offices may be closing
• Probation for Fulton boy who set fire that killed mom
• City eyes public fighting
• Tentative agreement set with teachers union
• Man kicked out of city meeting
• 3 hurt in hit-and-run crash
• Distinctive Gardens wins social media contest
• Downtown church demolished
• Dixon still picking up the pieces
• Illinois American Water replacing main pipe
• Two Sterling teens electrocuted, 8 others hurt in detasseling accident
• Report: 2 detasselers electrocuted, 2 others severely injured
• Court Call: Some of this week's court cases
• Polo farmer taking part in statewide campaign
• Pizzeria owner faces tough decision
• Wish comes true for local girl
• Bivins drug bill becomes law
• City won't explain legal bill
• Some storm damage after rainfall
• Searchers still seek help finding migrant worker
• Open for Business: Sow Belly's
• Dixon woman to open eatery in Rock Falls
• Piecing together a case
• ROCK FALLS City quick to fill post
• Hot or not, the job can't wait
• Borrowing against the state's commitment
• Process puts college to the test
• Attorney: Protect nearby landowners
• Sterling men held on $150,000 bond
• Lemons gets 22 years
• Following Lincoln's footsteps
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Authorities still trying to find man
• City seeks more details before granting permit
• Lemons gets 22 years in 2009 Ashton murder
• Board OKs downtown TIF extension
• District looks at tech policy for teachers
• Tentative budget includes severe cut to transportation fund
• Second man arrested in vandalism
• Veterans sought for next trip to nation’s capital
• School board ponders fate of fire-damaged building
• Migrant worker not found
• Dixon musicians to open for ’70s powerhouse
• Take advantage of opportunities to hear music in the park and downtown
• County signs off on downtown TIF district
• Officials differ on pay raises
• Public input rules pass board
• Officials: Get handle on expenses
• Young photographers exhibit their work
• New computers to help with testing
• Bigger wind farm setback pushed
• Teen charged with attempted sex assault
• New business awaiting permit
• Some forge ahead despite heat wave
• Judge re-appoints Galesburg attorney
• Detasseler goes missing
• State kills riverfront project
• Search on for missing detasseler
• Panel happy with wind farm setback
• County presents public transportation plan
• Golfers shaken after lightning strike
• Board agrees to fix road damage
• Prophetstown Percheron a 4-H fair star
• A peek into the past
• Boards address traffic issues
• District releases teacher’s texts
• Fashionable and frugal fashionistas strut the runway
• East Second road work ahead
• 4 little girls welcome Dad home
• City Council to vote on new ordinances
• Community center planned
• Was election a wind of change?
• Late pay makes schools tap reserves
• Group questions public input policy
• IT official defends current system
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Farm innovations: Conference features new technologies that help farmers pad bottom line
• Court to determine if stabbing suspect fit to stand trial
• Parents indicted in child abuse cases
• Open for Business: Everything Property LLC
• Business Notebook
• All well and good with Rock Falls water plan?
• Dedicated to being ready
• Plenty of food for thought
• Dixon draws attention to riverfront vandalism
• Colonel to lead Sterling Band again
• Sheley to judge: I need a lawyer
• 17th District hopeful visits Whiteside clinic
• Divided panel backs pay hikes
• Sentencing postponed a second time
• New hiring freeze policy considered
• Schools superintendent will be let go
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Presidential hopeful stops in Dixon
• TRIPLE FATAL Grand jury hearing postponed
• Piece of World Trade Center comes to Sauk Valley
• Students prepare history of the future
• Amboy man accused of burglary, intimidation
• Dixon police 
looking for burglar
• Fundraising ride coming up soon
• Wounded soldier returns to Erie
• 'Lowell Park' movie moving ahead
• More computerized access, info sought
• Taste of Dixon, live music join the lineup
• Board eyes nepotism policy
• Youth soccer league breaks ground on building
• Ex-coach files appeal in school district lawsuit
• Presidential longshot in area today
• Leaders lack followers to end clash
• County's truck stop expenses revised, lowered
• Power back for majority of ComEd users
• Police trying to find out how man was injured
• Police searching for suspect in home invasion
• More info needed on historic designation
• Voters back turbine ban
• State workers protest under Dixon Arch
• Commission talks partnership with Tourism Board
• Group aims to help shops become accessible
• 'We're glad to be here'
• Building projects could start soon
• Congressmen still waiting for debt ceiling proposal they would support
• New top dog
• Sheley: Move up the trials
• Jail concerned about health company
• Wage freeze a possibility
• Walnut approves more limited setbacks
• Former Rock Falls woman's dying wish comes true
• Council member wants information
• Defendant's mental health questioned
• Stop signs proposed for ‘confusing’ intersection
• Left without power
• Panel to look at wind farm rules
• Computer-buying process 'crazy'
• Storm pick-up service in Rock Falls
• 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
• Fundraiser: Exelon may be 'embarrassed'
• Attorney general: District should release texts
• Open for Business: All Paws Pet Wash
• Edmondson planning to build on faith
• Texting, using Facebook have pitfalls
• Why did board let Buser quit? No word
• Texting over the line
• Utility best way to ease flooding?
• Suspect faces attempted murder charges
• New ordinance sets fines
• Traffic stop leads to meth arrest
• IDOT to upgrade Miller/Locust intersection
• Office moving to Sterling, will reopen Monday
• Local soldier comes home
• Who to tell about wind farm plans?
• Officials got wrong info on state grant
• Confession should be tossed, attorney will argue
• 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
• Rock Falls leery of consolidating
• Push for Memorial Pool renovation still afloat
• Chadwick man airlifted to Rockford after five-vehicle crash
• Dixon man pleads not guilty to child sex assault charge
• Sheriff still backs concealed carry
• Men’s club invites all to 40th annual pig roast
• 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?
• Ogle officials want jail inmate death suit dropped
• Rock Falls man arraigned in child solicitation case
• Committee planning meeting on wind farm rules
• New priest assigned to Sacred Heart Church
• Camps planned at Forest Preserve
• City tries to cuts costs of well project
• Cities, counties make do
• No arrests yet in armed robbery attempt
• Broken power line damages computers
• Police still looking for Sterling shooting suspect
• City giving low street repair bid the once-over
• Subway still coming to town
• City considers showing free movies
• 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
• Dixon business needs your vote
• Whiteside may go in debt for roads
• Miller dies after fall from windmill
• Bond set at $1 million for accused attacker
• Bustos is third Democrat ready for run in 17th
• Dixon Municipal Band to perform Thursday
• Fire at elderly housing unit hospitalizes 2
• Couple stabbed; suspect caught
• Cleaning up after festival-goers
• Group sues to stop wind farm
• Barn destroyed by fire; no injuries
• 'All the support in the world'
• Final honor for longtime soldier
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Open for Business: The Carpet House Inc.
• Business Comings and Goings
• Officials fight possibility of gravel roads
• It's construction season at schools
• Power and control
• Teen charged with sexual assault, exploitation of child
• Governor's cuts are illegal, regional superintendent says
• Long-lost locker loot
• Taxpayers spent $80,000 on truck stop
• Firefighters battle blaze at RF apartment
• Two wanted for attempted armed robbery
• Sterling Police look for Chicago man in shooting
• Police still investigating crash that killed woman
• Ride the rails
• ‘This is America,’ Schilling says
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Police department looks into ideas to increase revenue
• Prosecutors want grand jury to indict stepmom
• Stories to tell about Lincoln school
• Rock Falls man to be arraigned in porn case
• Public invited to send off 1644th Transportation unit
• Sweltering temperatures expected
• Hultgren, Schilling discuss small business
• Nelson power plant still in works
• Grand jury to consider Nelson crash
• New events help keep the bloom on
• Child sex offenders banned from parks
• Wine shop opening Friday
• Nuts for 30 years
• Merrill fifth-grader a reading machine
• Trial set for 28-year-old Dixon man
• Old church to be razed, rebuilt
• Developer hired to create downtown plan
• P-L-T District unsure when projects will start
• 'It's always going to be a part of me'
• Road closed for Petunia Festival
• Comments sought for accreditation process
• Sheriffs back concealed carry
• Board will consider District 2 appointee
• Faulty sprinkler displaces tenants
• Brother of '48 murder victim demands $1.5 million
• Petunia Festival event canceled
• City not likely to remove nuisance tree
• Council urged to demolish buildings
• Exhumed skull not hers, pair say
• Local politicians think justice has been served
• Lincoln-Manahan Home ready to open
• Getting dirty at the Tampico Days festival
• A real life history lesson
• 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
• Freeport mayor plans another run for Congress
• Appointments needed for free medical, dental care
• Democrats share ideas at brunch
• Addressing job creation, spending and taxes
• P&P moving to Sterling
• Open for Business: Marceile's
• Business Notebook: Dixon business celebrates 25th anniversary
• 5 injured in U.S. 30 crash
• Local agencies get transportation funds
• Sheriff disputes former jail inmate’s claims
• Piece of the dream: Local man clears homeownership hurdles
• Late state payments makes business difficult
• Beating addiction
• Taking Morrison off course?
• 'Once-in-a-lifetime' chance on riverfront
• Dixon parents face abuse charges
• WHITESIDE COUNTY Policy inconsistent with state law
• Commission sends on wind ordinance
• Local jobless rates lowest since '08
• Schilling, others invite president to arsenal
• 'One anniversary she'll never forget'
• Residents still fighting development
• Horsing around in Chicago
• No debate at wind meeting
• Raft race nixed from Petunia Festival
• Dixon woman charged with battery to a child
• Showtime: Dixon band battle-tested
• Donor program, KSB efforts lauded
• AG: Items on agendas a must
• WHITESIDE COUNTY RF man arraigned Wednesday in armed robbery case
• Rock Falls girl injured Wednesday in accident
• Savings, but no political willpower
• Consultant suggests Riverdale dissolve
• STERLING Rock Falls man charged with having child pornography
• Principal leaving for Newman
• DIXON Alzheimer's walk gets new name
• Wind debate returning
• Two charged with drug offenses in Sterling
• Sterling woman charged with theft, burglary
• Police still recovering from crash
• Sterling man pleads guilty to stolen car charge in DeKalb County
• Council adopts changes to city administrator job
• Board excludes prisoners
• Control over computer purchases debated
• Offender used library computer, police say
• Close call, but East Coloma meets standards
• Number of districts doubled
• Showdown over gun rights issue
• Dixon's shock troops
• Time capsule arrives at school
• Legislatures meet for roundup
• Police close case in murder-suicide
• Morris carves out satisfying finale to career
• Plant expansion announced
• Council to adopt changes to administrator's job description
• Funding change secures fire truck
• Viering returns to City Council
• Dixon woman injured in crash
• Names released in traffic fatalities
• Bad time to take the EDGE off?
• Reagan Trail Days schedule is online
• 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
• Not taking retirement sitting down
• Open for Business: Sublette Mechanical Inc.
• Ceremony before service
• Sterling teen gets jail, probation in shooting
• Witzleb appears to be back on 911 board
• More time, or less power? Motives for administrator job changes questioned
• Final riverfront meeting ahead
• State: Lee County broke law
• NIU a powerful economic engine
• Mary Kay Bohms, 30, teaches seventh-grade
• Dixon woman remembers when Reagan saved her
• Semi hits car; 3 killed
• 3 die in Lee County crash
• 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
• 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
• Lee ready for a state House run
• Sheriff breaks ice on freeze
• Officials dispute city bills
• 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
• Snapshots of mill history
• Board approves series of building projects
• Bivins won’t have to run against colleague
• Park district delays TIF vote
• Tornado reported in Whiteside County
• Park district to talk about TIF
• Private wells must move to city water
• Lemons pleads to lesser charge
• 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
• Jacobs says he has regrets over confrontation
• One officer retiring, another promoted in Sterling
• A temporary fix to state workers' health plan confusion
• Cyclist named in fatal accident in Fulton
• Lemons pleads guilty to reduced murder charge
• Jacobs speaks out on confrontation
• 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
• Why are taxes going up?
• Fitness exam request dropped in Josh Sheley case
• County looks to avoid spills at courthouse
• AG rejects district’s arguments
• Rock Falls man charged with leaving scene of accident
• City closes budget gap, but union pacts loom
• Annual RibFest returns
• 3 injured in rural Rock Falls crash
• Council votes for bike trail
• DIXON City's budget gap closed, for now
• New wheels for Gypsie
• Street project still on track
• Mabley families anxious
• Fulton cyclist killed Monday in accident
• Neighborhood Watch meeting at Propheter Park
• Investigation into farmer's death continues
• Lee County Relay for Life raises $82,000
• A proper sendoff before deployment
• City still looking at bike trail
• No firm timeline for BioPro
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Always on watch
• Children invited to help break a world record
• SVM staff brings home 14 IPA awards
• Four locals arrested in multi-county sex offender compliance check
• Sisler's settles state antitrust allegations
• Chadwick man dies in farm accident
• Mayor wants to look at state-required reports
• Another concern aired
• Gradual closure of National planned
• 'Sometimes you want to be mayor No. 2'
• Paper and others not compliant
• Tractor rollover kills rural Chadwick man
• Jacobs gets Democrats' support
• Attempted murder charge dropped against Rochelle woman
• Chicago-area man returns bag with $17K in cash
• City, engineers to discuss drainage issues
• Man plans canoeing adventure
• WingFest Part 2 in Nelson
• Iowa town features John Wayne's birthplace
• Staff wins 9 journalism awards
• WHITESIDE COUNTY Sheriff seeks to replace old squad cars
• MORRISON Jorgensen new hospital CEO
• SVM ad staff wins top statewide awards
• Police: Drowning victim involved in robbery
• Hiring freeze may end
• Cancer survivor's lesson: Be proactive
• New K-9 cop coming
• $1,150,000 headed to county
• Annual musical extravaganza set for July 15-16
• Man sees bright future for deaf-blind brother
• Residents ask about proposed power line
• Father, son seek rezoning
• Judge grants prosecution's request for mental exam
• Sterling woman pleads not guilty to stealing more than $100K
• Petunia Festival still looking for volunteers
• Jacobs: I may have touched lawmaker
• Sending off the Guard
• Wind turbine setbacks approved
• Council approves administrator job description
• Sterling library gets $26,000 state grant
• City identifies summer street repaving projects
• Noncertified employees getting a raise
• Company vows to be good neighbor
• Recycling event needs volunteers
• Chicago man sentenced to 8 years in Lee County case
• 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
• RE/MAX Sauk Valley of Sterling Enjoys Big Night at RE/MAX Northern Illinois Awards Ceremony
• Council again agrees to lease squad cars
• Transit service plans new building
• No arrests yet in apparent prank hostage phone call
• Council to consider city job description
• Further McDelays in Morrison
• No state hearing on M&D’s liquor violation
• Prosecutors want Sheley back in Knox County Jail
• Sterling man charged with stealing from cars
• Council to vote on purchasing new dump truck
• A colorful community: Volunteers plant thousands of petunias
• ‘Hard work’ pays off for grads
• Court call
• Avanti recalling some mozzarella products
• State senator says he'll run in 17th District
• Another fire at Cimco
• Walkers have their reasons for taking part
• Whiteside, Lee issue first civil union licenses
• Police investigating prank shooting call
• Rock Falls introduces newsletter in utility bills
• $110,000 police radio upgrade still on tap for Dixon
• Sterling-Rock Falls fire merger uncertain
• Selling a piece of history in Tampico
• Sterling still into steel
• Activist: Many wind farms planned for Lee County
• Shooting call determined a hoax
• It's tax time, finally, in Lee County
• Trust breeds success through Project VITAL
• Money being raised for WWII plaque
• Alleged Senate brawler called emotional
• Sauk Commons 'flooded with leases'
• Half-million-dollar bond set for suspect
• Dixon man gets prison time for business burglaries
• Suspect friend of swimmer
• Aurora police searching SUV for clues
• Sheley's trial date moved to Aug. 29
• ‘Sunset Boulevard’ opens tonight
• 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
• Arraignment set for teacher accused of sex with student
• Will others see drop in bills?
• Some in GOP oppose cutting board
• Council to vote again on squad cars
• Amboy man arrested in DeKalb County
• Divers find key to murder, police chief says
• Teacher admits to sex with woman
• No overall pay hikes for teachers
• A day for honoring Sauk Valley veterans
• Rock Falls graduates appreciate opportunities, prepare for new course in life
• Sterling seniors graduate
• Copter’s crew back together in Dixon
• New state districts leave GOP frustrated
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Not much interest in civil unions locally
• When are property taxes due? Here, nothing's certain
• Flying under the wire
• Here come the brides
• Amboy teacher arrested for rape, home invasion
• Mill Stories: Chad Peppers
• Mill Stories: Joe Kreps
• Mill Stories: Dana Fellows
• Mill Stories: Andra Bielema
• Mill Stories: Fidencio Campos
• Like father, like son
• 911 official: State's attorney agrees
• Body recovered near Lyndon
• Committee OKs city administrator's job description
• Vietnam vets to reunite with their chopper
• City kids get a taste of rural life
• Sauk Valley jobless rates take sharp drop in April
• High school teacher accused of having sex with student
• 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
• Reagan dance raises more than $5,000
• Together one last time
• More students take part in activities
• Heads-up at sports complex
• Church set to honor founders
• Local search area narrows
• Search for missing man comes up empty
• Sterling woman injured in car accident Tuesday
• Newt's bill a burden for gala
• Rock Falls teen pleads guilty to Walmart burglary
• Personnel committee to discuss city administrator job description
• Local search area for missing boy narrows
• Tornado wrecks shed in Polo
• Bond set at $1 million for man police say sold cocaine
• More details emerge in fatal shootings
• Grant allows city to devise economic plan
• Mayor Lee undergoes angioplasty
• Isaacman sentenced to 10 years
• Not a new charge against Seeberg
• Bypass means in-town traffic would drop by half
• FBI divers search for evidence in 15-month-old case
• Council shears $140,000 from budget deficit
• Artesian Place to stay closed until end of June
• Consolidation not a 'viable option'
• A monument to them
• Ster-Lynn Estates may get new owner
• River search to resume for local man
• P-L-T approves construction bids
• Shooter's ex-girlfriend dies
• Volunteers to power wash Memorial Arch today
• Search for 6-year-old boy may return to Sauk Valley
• Hultgren says Obama is 'backtracking' on original Israeli stance
• Autopsies to be done today
• New administrator: Sterling, Rock Falls in ‘separate orbits’
• Local fields to be part of new state study
• Power being restored in Ogle County
• Two wanted in Sterling convenience store robbery
• Police identify missing Rock Falls man
• ‘Lowell Park’ author offers free presentation
• 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
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Polo student ready for senior year in Chile
• Names of shooting victims released
• AT THE SCHOOL Some kids saw the shooting, principal says
• State’s House district maps proposed
• No new developments, police say
• Local murders and other violent deaths
• Judge says no to delay in Sheley trial
• Not guilty plea Friday in Rock Falls battery case
• Rebirth of former mill site continues
• New Morrison leader 'loves' city's downtown
• Man, woman found dead in Rock Falls apartment
• Annual readings at SHS
• Dixon man gets prison time
• Dixon woman sentenced to probation, jail
• Wine, antiques and song thrive in Ottawa
• Closure a ‘tragedy for area’
• Board gets merger study update, cuts kindergarten to half days
• Dixon man pleads guilty to possessing nude photos
• Search brought to Sauk Valley
• Setting new boundaries
• Seeberg's actions draw more criticism
• Cimino sued: Company says man owes more than $12,000
• Rock Falls man charged with aggravated battery
• Search for missing Aurora boy extends to the Sauk Valley
• Second Saturdays looking for artists
• Washing Elementary School loses Grampa Les
• 20-year-old pleads not guilty to drug charges
• St. Andrew principal retiring
• Marker to honor baseball player
• Tentative trial date set for 12-year-old boy
• Annual readings tonight at SHS
• A happy end to school year
• Bivins’ bill heading to governor
• Walmart hits major milestone
• Scholarships, honors to Rock Falls seniors
• Correction: Tech position eliminated by East Coloma
• Commemorative Petunia Festival buttons are here
• Vote to approve construction bids put on hold
• District removes lists of students who owe
• Teens plead not guilty
• Legislators happy with sale price
• Sterling man pleads not guilty
• Sterling man cited for DUI
• Energy "toll road" may go through Lee, Whiteside counties
• Board lays off four aides, fires tech director
• Blanton to serve as interim city administrator
• Ten years after the mill closed, Sauk Valley still trying to figure out its identity
• Search continues for Aurora 6-year-old
• Chairman accused of breaking rules
• Board ups non-union workers' pay
• Complaint leads to revote
• State, feds make a deal
• Workers' pay may be cut
• Family sues Ogle County officials in inmate's death
• School district facing $60,000 deficit
• Army officer gets top city job
• Dixon City Council votes down new fire truck
• Rock Falls City Council meets tonight
• Multimillion sports complex advances
• Landslide predicted in nonbinding wind election
• Letter carriers collect more than 30,000 pounds
• Summertime staff layoffs a possibility
• Marker proposed for old courthouse
• Shining Star’s walk yields money, awareness
• IN BRIEF Memorial ride for fallen Amboy officer
• Morrison hospital health fair Saturday
• City meeting on building codes Tuesday
• Bureau settles wind farm lawsuit
• 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
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Council may pick top official
• PFLAG Sauk Valley plans to open site for teens
• Raises, lunch increases on agenda
• VFW hosts benefit for family
• The Veterans of Honor Flight
• Lee: Sterling has elements of success
• BioPro fueling local economy?
• VA to open Sterling clinic in September
• Former member of county board dies
• Sauk grads take next step
• Prison correctional officer charged with bribery
• Two hurt in Rock Falls Crash
• School project reminds Dixon of forgotten history
• The veterans of Honor Flight
• Details emerge at hearing Thursday
• Street seen as tangle of wires
• Man faces multiple charges
• Official: Board likely didn't meet rule
• Iowa man charged with misdemeanor sex abuse
• Schilling hasn't decided whether to view photos
• Judge orders turnover of safety reports
• Board may exclude inmates
• Public works panel to review wind farm rules
• Lectronics loses Verizon contract
• Get on the right track with a day trip to the Windy City
• Court: Grain company's insurance documents must be given to OSHA
• Officials eye nepotism policy
• Police looking for shooting suspect
• Star Road open after bridge replacement
• Letter carriers collecting food Saturday
• Man pleads not guilty in break-in
• WALMART BURGLARY Rock Falls teen pleads not guilty
• Prosecutors want to move Sheley trial
• Dixon firefighter put on leave
• Vocal talent performing in Sterling
• Officials again follow hiring policy
• Man pleads not guilty
• Complaint prompts revote
• Board chairman retaliates against dissenter
• Man faces cocaine charges after traffic stop
• Members consider public comment rules at meetings
• Rock Falls native thinks fashion forward
• Nuclear plant passes muster
• Garage fire’s cause under investigation
• New president chosen
• Arduini shows 
up for meeting
• WHITESIDE COUNTY No action yet on pro-gun resolution
• Exploding ammo hinders firefighters
• Five city council members take official oaths during brief ceremony at City Hall
• Felon faces new gun, marijuana charges
• Grocer helps scared residents evacuate
• DIXON BURGLARIES Suspects held on $75,000 each
• Amboy man sentenced in Craigslist solicitation
• Members clash over what to put on agendas
• Too much government?
• Ex-Sterling man running for president
• City Council gets four new members
• Members trying to eliminate $250,000 budget deficit
• Group: City must get involved in planning
• Emerson quarry a hotbed of activity
• Two local men in custody in overnight break-ins
• State's attorney answers public criticism
• Project links 10 houses to city sewer system
• Group wants to make the waterway more inviting
• Storm Chasers, Day 1: Cruising into Wichita
• 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
• Veterans take Honor Flight May 19
• Bin Laden death sparks new talk over Patriot Act
• 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
• One member misses a third of meetings
• Real estate tax bills have been mailed
• Comcast Dixon office closed
• Open for Business: Cobblestone Ice Cream & Deli
• Life sentence for former Sterling woman
• Chamber honors Mitchell for pro-business votes
• Know your neighbor
• DIXON PARK DISTRICT Another tight year
• Budget is No. 1 issue for local legislators
• City handles parks in Morrison
• Park district officials in Sterling and Rock Falls prepare for summer season
• Car chase in Rock Falls, Dixon leads to arrest
• COMMUNITY PROFILE: ROY BRIDGEMAN Teacher, coach, commissioner
• Loan fund program further delayed
• Burke appears in Chinese news
• 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
• Money box and scales reunited
• 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
• 2 arrests in April 29 shooting
• Deaf inmates sue IDOC
• Whiteside burglary suspect pleads not guilty
• Former Dixon man, 2 others charged in LaSalle County murder
• Studying annexation option
• Forreston man to appear in court May 18 in sex abuse case
• Rural Dixon man charged with sexual abuse
• New PetSmart opens Monday in Sterling
• Rice leaves vacancy on Ogle board
• Singer/songwriter finishing first album
• Sterling native testifies for several hours
• Charges may be pending in accidental shooting case, sheriff says
• Morrison fund 'better run' than most
• RIVERFRONT UPDATE Phase 2 hits a snag
• Dixon woman receives award for volunteering
• Bigger room for Morrison meetings?
• New signs to go up in Rock Falls
• Man hit pedestrians, police say
• Post closed a week for plumbing repairs
• Officials: State’s attorney taking a while to respond
• Health sidelines Whiteside chairman
• 3 Erie teens injured 
in weekend rollover
• Grand opening for Lanark bookstore
• Damp, cold weather delays planting
• Answers sought in 43-year-old’s death
• Rochelle office closes
• District 13 raising school breakfast, lunch prices
• Dixon man accused of taking $600
• Attorney general looking at board
• Mayor wants bigger turbine setback
• Newman team places ninth at math competition
• Star Road project suffers another delay
• Downey’s last day will be June 24
• City Administrator Richard Downey to resign
• Deputies look for answers in death of 43-year-old
• Rock Falls man charged with DUI, reckless driving after accident
• No charges yet in accidental shooting
• Lee sworn in as city’s mayor
• Sterling woman facing theft charge
• 29 cited for underage drinking in Coleta party
• Bond set for teens in Walmart theft
• Dixon prison employee set to retire after 28 years
• Ogle County judge gives felon another chance to change life
• Rock Falls to introduce new firefighter
• Tampico gets Russian sister city
• Schutt’s mom testifies, backs daughter's claims
• NICIL notes handicap violations
• More obstacles for TIF extension
• New village council set at meeting
• Locals proud, happy – and fearful of retaliation
• Dixon family of four breaks ground on new home
• 10-year-old shot in the arm
• Local churches participating in National Day of Prayer
• Court Call
• Sewer plant still on track, will be running by Aug. 1
• No guns to be sold at local Walmarts
• Another bomb threat in Morrison
• Police: No drugs found in search
• Police: Wife's story 'made no sense'
• Thinking big: School club building a community solar system
• Villages make play for power
• Under construction
• Open for Business: The Studio
• Mitchell: Don’t weaken state’s smoking ban
• Masked Walmart bandits arrested
• Calculating challenges
• Reviving Rock Falls
• Husband-wife team gets control
• Rallying the troops
• Police warn of jury duty scam
• School board approves TIF extension
• Sterling, Rock Falls pass $4 mark
• Oregon man facing eight kiddie porn charges
• Lee County officials in top posts
• Sterling man faces possible 30-year sentence
• MORRISON SCHOOLS Township rule hampers board
• Information on Rock Falls Walmart bandidos sought
• Meal prices on the rise
• 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
• Oregon man faces numerous charges in Ogle, Lee
• Morrison doing 'thorough job' in search
• Defense wants confession tossed
• Ready to illustrate
• Child actors, singers needed
• Murder in Georgia: Former Sterling woman's trial begins
• Man, 22, wanted in sex abuse case
• Coroner: Morrison woman died of natural causes
• U.S. Route 52 bridge reopens
• Weight room has no restrictions
• MORRISON: School wants tougher requirements
• More charges likely in equipment-hoarding case
• Planter installation to affect Galena traffic
• Oregon man facing child porn charges
• P-L-T SCHOOLS: District posts list of students who owe
• Budget cuts hurting Focus House
• Nelson man hurt when crash pushes car into moving train
• Morrison crime: 38-year-old charged in home burglary
• Encore, encore!
• Meals going up in Sterling schools
• Carrier sentenced for destroying mail
• Bidding on P-L-T project soon
• Carroll County cuts size of board
• Rapper, restaurateur in war of words
• P-L-T may buy laptops for its board
• Parking lot next on Veterans Memorial Park to-do list
• Sheley wins motion, will represent himself at trial
• Consult with an attorney for free Saturday
• Sun and fun at kite festival
• Police warn of phone scam
• Egg hunts make kids very hoppy
• No new action on administrator's job
• Morrison schools consider random drug-tests
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Farm Service Agency honors 25-year employee
• Their fight becomes her fight
• Hashing details of proposal
• Crime on decline in '10
• Bugs help bring up grades
• A new home would be sweet
• Your Weekend Top 5
• A vision for Rock Falls
• Commission recommends annexation for new church
• 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
• Private Frank Lloyd Wright homes open for tours
• Work starts Monday on I-88
• Floodwaters close Route 84 in Albany
• Colorful nature paintings on display
• City has places it can pare
• Soccer league meets funding goal; new buidling wins approval
• Rock Falls High getting new walk-in freezer
• Sauk Valley Student Housing relinquishes Commons
• New Life Lutheran wants to build church at Lynn Blvd.
• Lemons murder trial advances
• Impressions of oppression
• Lee County didn't give notice
• Lee County tax hike on table
• A penny burned
• New Beginnings: Dixon church finds a new home
• Commission members to tour Reliant site today
• Lee County Board votes to have 24 members rather than 28
• Paddle wheel passes the pudge test
• Truck stop proposal rejected: Developer says project dead after 2nd rejection
• Polo considers extending hours for Sunday liquor sales
• 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
• Ogle Co. debate at gale force
• East Coloma getting new phone system
• Truck stop or travel plaza?
• East Coloma meets tonight
• No action on pro-gun resolution
• Fire totals Rock Falls mobile home
• Sterling OKs deficit 2011-12 budget
• Two commissioners say goodbye
• Dixon man charged with stealing from neighbor
• 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
• Barrel Bash competition rolls through Sterling
• New details emerge in coach’s departure
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• A dark lesson
• Agencies treat nepotism differently
• No plans for Sterling Theater
• Open for Business: Dr. David C. Jennings, optometrist
• Benefits of tax districts debated
• Wind causes power outage
• Capitol rally is their cup of tea
• Whiteside County still searching for daytime burglars
• Local Vietnam vet to be honored Monday in D.C.
• Know Your Neighbor
• A business fighting back
• 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
• Assets Council reaches out: Group unveils new website to connect to the community
• Bivins’ electronic funds transfer bill passes Senate
• Whiteside County board member resigns
• Stories differ on Election Day clash
• Whiteside road, bridge work resumes Monday
• Falling silent in support
• Chicago man charged with Whiteside residential burglary
• 3-year teacher pact includes modest raises
• City pitches TIF district extension
• Main Street Wine Cellar fined $350
• One Lee County district has more clout
• Two arrested on ATV, charged with stealing lawn lights
• Four hit with federal drug charges
• Riverfront paver orders due by June 1
• Police: DeKalb suspect stole car from Sterling
• Expressions art show and sale returns
• Drive-in opens this weekend
• City to make its case for TIF district to schools
• On wind issue, what does public want?
• Truck stop gains supporters
• Sterling resident caught in stolen car
• Police: Man who approached Milledgeville children will not be charged
• Conflict of interest identified
• Bureau Valley High a YouTube hit
• City wants more residents to go green, earn rewards
• Key Club steps up to help Sterling family
• Vote on scrapping old lockers stalls
• City follows state’s advice on loan fund
• IDOT: No money on tap for U.S. 30 project
• Petition drive for referendum fails
• Mayor takes responsibility
• Scrapping old lockers
• Local man familiar with Fukushima plant
• Former Dixon coach wants federal lawsuit reinstated
• Dixon's preliminary budget $250,000 too much
• Community invited to take part in earthquake drill
• Two charged in Dixon car break-ins
• Truck stop coming back to table: Board may reverse previous decision
• Rock Falls to OK teacher contract
• Initial budget $250,000 too much
• 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
• Hunting for Easter eggs in the Sauk Valley
• Learning to lead
• Twin Cities bicker over state leases
• Village prepares for wind farm
• Hill Fastener sold; workers keeping their jobs
• Bureau board to consider Walnut Ridge request
• Lee budget called 'perilous'
• Sheley's trail of trouble
• I-88 ramp to close for bridge repairs
• Ashton murder trial postponed
• Police still investigating Lawrence fire
• Police seek man they say approached children
• Incident at polling place leads to arrest
• Students evacuated after threat
• Crossing that bridge
• Fulton man pleads not guilty to farm equipment, tool theft charges
• Bomb threat at Morrison High School
• Your Weekend Top 5
• $200,000 Powerball ticket sold in Sterling
• YWCA honors 'Women of Achievement'
• Council may separate loan money
• Attorney asks for Lemons trial delay
• Wilhelmi beefs up board security
• Dixon Founders Day to focus on Civil War
• Shorthanded jail struggling, sheriff says
• If $20,000 goal scored, private gift will kick in
• Bypass concerns Morrison businesses
• Music students a close-knit group
• Time to do the Wildflower Walkabout
• Byron OKs co-op agreement
• Schilling on shutdown: Hoping it doesn’t happen
• Oregon highway work leads to rare archaeological find
• Riverfront development on ballot? Resident submits petitions to city clerk’s office
• Arduini home from the hospital
• Bond set in Sterling marijuana, ammunition case
• County official: Farmers blocking roadwork
• Whiteside Highway Department takes on workers' phone use
• Incumbents take both Rock Falls wards
• Channahon teen charged in Dixon car burglaries
• 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
• Change at the top at Newman
• 4th Term for Burke
• Sullivan trounces rival in Morrison
• Stone wins by a landslide
• Rochelle man gets 30 years for beating Sterling man
• Sterling felon charged with selling marijuana
• Boundary issues near conclusion
• Burke wins 4th term as Dixon mayor
• Finn leaving Newman after school year
• Langloss: Drugs remain big issue in 2011
• Squads not mod, so Sterling Fire Department will pick up new truck
• Budget, truancy on Rock Falls agenda
• Salvage yard cleans up, official says
• A break in Thomson stalemate?
• Beef-A-Roo leaves Sterling
• A chance to learn about Reagan, freedom
• Holder: No Gitmo detainees in Thomson
• Beef-A-Roo leaves Sterling
• 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
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Sow Belly's carry-out moving into downtown Dixon
• Mayor: Project's foes 'uninformed'
• Dixon police arrest 5 in raids
• Expert praises Sterling schools' security
• 6 days of terror
• Three vying for Dixon helm
• Tax hike before Carroll County voters
• Six-year alderman running against Navy veteran
• Dog owners throw park district a bone
• Sauk Valley’s monthly jobless rates up slightly
• Morrison eyes building code
• Will Dixon bridge wish be granted?
• Running to remember
• Polo incumbent faces challenge
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Three Amboy incumbents contested
• National authority on teen killers to speak in Sterling
• Whiteside County still trails in health rankings
• Wind firm makes 'final offer'
• A healthier result for Lee County
• Morrison may choose new leader soon
• Martin only incumbent challenged on Sterling council
• Fight for office space not over
• Two of Rock Falls' four wards contested
• Disease advocators to see legislators
• Will turbines affect your home's value?
• Ogle Route 2 construction set to begin
• Byron last to sign agreement
• Development dominates forum
• State may join bunny battle
• Bond set at $500,000 for Sterling shooting suspect
• Sheley seeks to fire counsel
• No hike in tuition at Sauk
• Move afoot to put bond issue on ballot
• Sheley again wants to fire his attorneys, no longer faces the death penalty
• Teens charged with disorderly conduct
• Bond set Monday for two men in car-smashing case
• Sheriff: Fulton 'collector' caught with barn full of stolen equipment, tools
• Prescription for disaster
• 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!
• Three charged with stealing scrap metal
• Bureau County zoning board to vote on wind farm permits
• 'Windfall' premieres locally to large crowd
• Dixon man charged with DUI alcohol, drugs
• KSB says goodbye to its chief
• Two jailed in attack on car full of people
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Laid off workers plan next moves
• Dixon mayor open to consolidation
• 'My brain doesn't have a statute of limitations'
• Working better together?
• Belvidere man arrested in connection with burglaries
• 'Significant' pot-growing bust in Lee County
• Trucker's condition ‘serious’ after two-vehicle accident
• Staying true to their pool in Dixon
• Superintendents: Savings not worth ROE loss
• A grand piano collection
• Angelo's stakes out land in Dixon
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico leader gets pay raise
• Playing with history
• Josh Sheley indicted on drug-dealing charges
• Morrison decision questioned
• Car slides into river, girl drowns
• Amboy man pleads guilty to pandering, theft
• 20 years in the making
• Amboy bunny count tailing off
• The key to unlocking prison deal
• Rock Falls man gets probation for damaging vehicles
• Federal shelter from storm
• Recruiting officers at Sauk job fair
• WYSE Kids
• Judge reschedules hearing in fatal Fulton fire
• 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
• Official explains tie to wind industry
• It's all in the interpretation
• Disabled residents fear budget cuts
• Area districts have higher standards for their athletes
• Morrison charges highest fees
• Criminal justice career fair to debut
• Council opposes TIF district restrictions
• Program addresses teen drug abuse
• Fresh start for Dixon’s Aldi
• Schilling, others want more details on Libya
• Hultgren staff to be in Lee County
• Food, shelter program accepting applications
• Dixon City Fire Department's ranking improves
• Wind panel debates to the end
• Two men charged in copper thefts
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Fire at Lawrence Bros. closes bridge
• Memory lane for some; for others, a chance to clear trash
• Sterling City Council meets tonight
• Learn how to save on your utility bills
• Sterling college students 'Pay It Forward'
• Smoking ban may dissipate
• Sauk Valley business comings and goings
• Polo man pleads guilty to lesser charges
• Planning for the future
• Police fanning out through cyberspace
• An open book?
• Quadriplegia not slowing Roux down
• Bureau County residents plead case to zoning board
• Doughnuts with Dad
• Reagan art contest works chosen
• Franklin Grove extends wind farm moratorium
• Lemons trial set for April 11
• Officials haggle over truck stop deal
• Get to know nature in the city
• Bags, bets and bids for Granny Rose
• Board expels student through next school year
• Dixon student makes Reagan poetry contest finals
• Rock Falls to house state social services
• Fire destroys empty house in rural Sterling
• Reagan mobile exhibit making he rounds
• Celebrating the history of the mill
• Bickerstaff appeals to U.S. Supreme Court
• Rock Falls High board votes no on forced consolidation
• Morrison expects budget surplus
• Byron closer to leaving special ed agency
• Bickerstaff appeals conviction to U.S. Supreme Court
• Rock Falls redevelopment stirs concern in Sterling
• AG looks into records denial
• Wind farms dominate Ogle board meeting
• Prosecutor 'disturbed' by budget process
• Judge shaves 30 months off sentence
• Wind farm plan shocks board
• Quad/Graphics leaving
• Dixon Mayor named to state panel
• East Coloma says no to forced consolidation
• New Aldi opens Monday in new location
• Major county issues missing
• New contract sought for highway workers
• Business group worried about loan fund
• Firm to provide legal services for Morrison
• Local salons against youth tan ban
• Modern, faster, better
• Fulton baseball field to go up for sale
• Rock Falls council to hold hearing on $7.3 million bond proposal
• Police upping patrols this week in Sterling
• Dixon to serve on board overseeing appellate prosecutors
• A new source of hope for cancer patients
• GE plans to survey Morrison residents
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Is ban on public comment legal?
• Congressmen urge Obama not to bring detainees to Thomson
• Sterling redesigning its website
• Japanese drummer escapes disasters
• Irish Society's Saturday bash a success
• St. Pat's parade a blessing for the food pantry
• Teens slow down for fast
• No resolution to Sauk Commons saga
• Tapping trees for funds
• Dixon's grand ole' Post House
• Chicago man acquitted of Rock Falls rape
• Girl, 15, charged in school threat
• Federal judge tosses Sandholm suit
• Rockford man killed in Ogle crash
• Bivins bill targets high-tech criminals
• Open For Business: Love~4~Tatts
• Rock Falls taxpayers get bigger bills
• Making a digital connection
• Judge drops Sandholm lawsuit in federal court
• Economy top issue at candidates forum
• Bureau County shoots down wind farm moratorium
• Park District making cuts to make ends meet
• 'We're going to die'
• Shared challenge
• Judge moves hearing in Josh Sheley drug case
• Cancer center celebrates
• No cause yet in Morrison woman's death; more results pending
• January jobless numbers much improved
• Wind firm sticks with project
• Local legislators urge President Obama to abandon Gitmo detainee relocation efforts
• Raynor and Local 790 reach agreement
• Local sheriffs talk about concealed-carry
• Doggone: Park 4 Paws may be closing down
• The paradin' o' the green
• Residents voice concerns, suggestions at comprehensive plan presentation
• Tuition going up at Kishwaukee College
• Truck stop may get funds after all
• Some cite Sheley case as a reason to keep death penalty
• Schilling introduces bill barring Gitmo detainees from U.S.
• Sterling woman sued in shaken baby case
• Some residents fearing Whiteside County wind farm
• Some members question planned security measures
• Whiteside committee takes no stance on death penalty
• 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
• Detention center on ICE
• Alert system touted after Challand lockdown
• Spellbinding experience
• City Council passes sign ordinance
• 2 panel members have wind ties
• 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
• Council OKs adding enterprise zone site
• Challand girl made gun threat that led to lockdown, officials say
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Lady in red
• It's a Kohl's day in Sterling
• Schilling returns from Afghanistan
• Offices fight 
to keep 
running
• Sterling City Council to vote on changes to sign ordinance at tonight’s meeting
• Deadline to register to vote is Tuesday
• More snowfall than normal in region
• Cubs fail to come through for Lowell Park project
• Milledgeville church rebuilds
• Kohl's arrives in style
• Hispanic population booms
• Sheriff delays County Board meeting security measures
• Whiteside panel favors death penalty
• Coach's records under wraps
• Diversity in a Dixon church
• Drug defendant sues police, parole officers in federal court
• Josh Sheley facing felony drug charges
• District to tell state about coach
• New attorney tapped in homicide case
• Applicants' names can be kept secret
• Wind farm to include Whiteside
• Bivins bill aims for electronic check payments
• Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Switchback
• Blanton reviews 2010 during State of the City address
• Two more OK Byron's withdrawal
• No resolution yet in Bureau County wind farm request
• Amboy woman to be tried May 9 in 3-year-old embezzlement case
• No cell phones at county meetings
• Local officials lobby for D.C. dollars
• Whiteside may target workers’ phone use on job
• More gravel roads? Maybe
• Suspect in stabbing sought
• Parts of Morrison under boil order
• 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
• Morrision council pushes for new attorney
• Dixon murder defendant getting new attorney
• Dixon teacher home at last
• Fire destroys outbuilding in Paw Paw
• Food drive a hair-raising experience
• It's ISAT time
• District open to merger
• Bureau County dog wins at Westminster
• Happy Tails sells some land, will move in March
• Service with a smile
• 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
• Does county have money or not?
• Sauk Valley businesses move, expand
• A seemingly unlikely combination
• Staying true to their schools
• Meet the Andersons
• Casa Mexicana moves out
• Former coach banned from RFHS campus
• Dixon teacher boats to safety from Libya
• History repeats itself
• School districts explore joining forces
• Sauk Commons mortgage under water
• Oregon's third mural a memory recreated
• Rock Falls coach resigns
• Snow emergency in Rock Falls
• Our own Angelina ballerina
• Boards too big? Some think so
• Fighting cancer with a crochet hook
• Sterling approves health, safety bonds
• Turbine noise can be stressful, expert says
• Board told of members’ violations
• Man accused of shooting at house to be tried June 1
• Bench trial set in Sterling stabbing
• United Way surpasses goal
• 2011 Campaign Calendar
• Some oppose overnight parking ban in Polo
• Public gets a look at renovation plans
• 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
• Two dead after crash in Sycamore
• Sauk Valley roads get slippery
• Sifting through the rubble of 50 years
• Wind industry rival leaves panel
• Freshman 14th District congressman independent of Tea Party movement
• Two girls suspects in bogus Reagan bomb threat
• Wife dead, two hurt in Coleta house fire
• Gas leak evacuates four Sterling homes
• Bunny battle brewing
• Blockbuster closing in Sterling
• Sterling firefighters respond to gas main break
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Woman killed in Coleta house fire Monday
• 'Soundtrack of history'
• Bill would allow online public notices
• Dixon Main Street hosting historic district update
• Another winter hazard: City water main breaks
• Walnut Ridge wind farm wants permits extended
• Fire damages Dixon house
• Pains and gains for Dixon business district
• 1-day sentence for bank embezzler
• Sauk complex remains with LLC, for now
• Will Sheley face the death penalty?
• Two Dixon teens charged in car burglaries
• Blaze heavily damages rural Milledgeville home
• Craigslist solicitation results in charges
• Mitchell: Changes ahead for 90th District
• Challand students AVID about helping others
• A tilt toward wind industry? Officials say no
• Marine rides to the rescue
• Change is in the mail
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Plan Commission finalizes new sign code
• Ten years later, friends, collegaues remember
• Holly Sheley violates parole, is back in prison pending hearing
• Lights go out in Morrison to save money
• 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
• Dixon doggie best of his breed
• Grain bin company contests fines
• Local Republicans see 'more of the same' from Quinn
• A regional exodus
• Educators ‘shocked’ by budget
• SalonCentric consolidating, company says
• Sterling Plan Commission to finalize sign ordinance tonight
• Rock Falls give preliminary OK to truancy, curfew rules
• Sex abuse survivor wants legislation to go national
• State lawmakers remember fallen Byron Marine
• Thomson 'still on track'
• Still home, sweet home
• Lee County wind farm moratorium expires
• SalonCentric closing in Dixon
• County won't fund truck stop
• Teaching ag safety
• No cause yet in Morrison woman's death
• Send kids to school, security will be in place, Langloss says
• Morrison city attorney resigns after nearly 40 years
• Downtown bakery closes after 80 years
• Morrison decides not to reduce police force
• Morrison woman's body found next to bank
• Governor signs 'Erin's Law'
• Four charged in Morrison motorcycle theft
• Previously secret pact released
• Dixon Egyptian-American watches a revolution unfold
• Honing their (air)craft
• Proposed curfew, truancy laws on tonight's Rock Falls agenda
• Sauk Commons files bankruptcy
• State legislators react to Obama's budget
• Renewing their vows
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Lawmakers to Quinn: Show us your cards
• Financial aid assistance available Sunday at Sauk
• 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
• Republicans committed to 'Reagan ideals'
• Oregon woman sentenced to 4 years for fatal accident
• No arrests, few leads
• New home is ready
• Life challenges no match for determined student
• Tyco's closing in final phases
• Who owns the land for truck stop?
• Lions on area's endangered list
• Chance of flooding next week
• We're listening, wind farm insists
• The Gipper's stamp of approval
• Health department: 'This is the last chance'
• Senior center upset with budget cut
• Truck stop deal concerns tea party
• New lights coming for Dixon High gym
• Train travel building steam
• Whiteside sheriff has no pre-hiring physical test
• Oscar nominee to portray Reagan
• Opposition to truck stop deal growing
• Making up for snow days
• Teen with cancer risks her life to give birth
• Dixon Main Street's Martini Gras! Saturday
• Internet textbook dealer buys historic Mount Morris building
• Polo considers overnight parking ban
• Crash closes I-39
• Officials question truck stop deal
• Panel: Don't extend wind farm moratorium
• Fulton boy charged in arson appears in court
• Fulton schools pay only $10,000 asbestos fine
• Former Dixon councilwoman returns to post
• Fulton candidate files complaints
• District 13 to declare snow days
• Snow cleanup costs trickle in
• Mount Morris man gets prison time for Carroll County school break-ins
• Reagan documentary to air Wednesday
• Sterling man saves trucker's life
• From basketball court to high court
• Traffic being diverted on I-39
• Annual Stupor Bowl a trivia challenge
• Hundreds pay homage to Dutch
• 'Everywhere he went, he brought change'
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Pricey Reagan gala attracts 300
• Two Sterling men arrested
• Cleanup bills still mounting
• Dixon teens charged with business burglary
• Sterling police investigate stolen car case
• Bond set at $1 million in shaken baby case
• Township no longer a dead end
• New Tampico mayor to have unusual power
• Gingrich touts late president
• Tampico goes Dutch (Diner) to celebrate
• Film screening evokes emotions for Reagan
• Star Road temporary fix done
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Schilling proposes pizza summit with Obama
• M&D's to stay open until appeal to state heard
• Reagan's son gets hometown welcome
• Whiteside sheriff wants tightened security
• HBO to debut “Reagan” documentary Monday
• Attempted murder case postponed to March 3
• Clearing the way
• Dixon father charged in infant's death
• A White Wednesday for local shoppers
• Digging out
• Oregon eyes elementaries consolidation
• Route 2 work to begin April 1
• Blizzard 2011: Information and updates
• 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
• Dixon National Guard activated during winter storm
• Dixon city commissioner Kelly dies
• Basking in spotlight
• Some residents may see lower power rates
• Rock Falls to consider citywide curfew and truancy laws
• A mother's dream
• 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
• "Parties and More" !
• "Parties and More" !
• Lee Democrats party at Freedom Ball
• M&D's open again
• Court Call: A roundup of some of this week's Sauk Valley court cases
• Some say charge it; others don't
• Senior center opens in Fulton
• Church to memorialize former member Reagan
• 'Rare' hearings on tap
• Paging Molly
• Growing a business
• Schilling: Keep detainees at Gitmo
• Dixon man sticks with his hobby
• Realtor: Assessor wrong on wind farms
• Court ruling may cost funds to P-L-T
• Morrison crime rate low, figures show
• Proposed sign ordinance concerns small businesses
• Dixon teens found in strange home, intoxicated
• Menards shoots for Feb. 15 opening
• Dixon bar part of FBI raid
• Illinois state treasurer has twofold plan to ensure state's economic viability
• Mount Morris man gets probation in school break-ins
• Year-to-year jobless drops locally, statewide
• Mitchell fears budget deficit, state pension crisis could hurt education
• Morrison plant to close
• Officials: County has money for truck stop
• Second Look provides 
first-rate prom dresses
• Dixon native edits Lincoln book
• Dixon prison guard sentenced in phone smuggling
• Official: Wind farm didn't hurt home values
• Local legislators react
• No foul play in woman's drowning, Oregon police say
• Sheley brother guilty of aggravated fleeing
• Board to hear Pinecrest appeal
• Official: Loan fund money accounted for
• IDOT official: No new lights in sight for East Lincolnway corridor
• Morrison without credit cards
• Grain company fined $618,125 in bin fatalities
• Online and outdated
• Bad news, Bears fans
• Sterling Main Street raises $4,000 with holiday CD
• Sterling man gets jail, probation in mall burglary
• No one running for 2 Tampico seats
• Open for Business: How Sweet It Is
• Bringin' the Flavor to Rock Falls
• Restauranteur faces sex abuse charge
• Sauk, like other colleges, forced to assess threats
• Lee County United Way surpasses goal
• 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
• 'We didn't do this'
• Signs of changes ahead
• Dixon Fire Department secures grant
• Benefit set Saturday for Polo woman fighting cancer
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Panel OKs further Wahl expansion
• Gearing up for the Reagan centennial
• Adams indictment upheld
• Adults heading back to school
• Tests, interviews not done in infant homicide
• Dixon OKs school improvement plan
• Tampico may double water rates
• Broadband work to start this summer
• Dixon, 3 others, put electric issue on April 5 ballot
• Rock Falls council approves next step in riverfront redevelopment
• 14 injured in school bus crash
• Ogle board accepts administrator's resignation
• M&D's shut down for 30 days
• Lee asked to extend wind ban
• Lee, Ogle to vote on new elementary school
• Local towns work together, get involved
• Sterling moving along with rehab program
• Stupor Bowl trivia contest needs teams
• Rock Falls council set to vote on next step in riverfront redevelopment
• Tuesday's postponements
• Morrison incumbents aren't running again
• Visa scam targets the Dixon area
• Bivins supports repeal of income tax hike
• Similarities cited in recent Whiteside burglaries
• 'Mixed bag' spills on Sauk Valley
• Rock Falls woman wins peace award
• Meese, others tour Reagan's old stomping grounds
• Two bars burglarized: information sought
• Court Call
• Kohl's begins hiring for 130 part-time jobs
• Reagan statue planned in Tampico
• Health departments shave budgets
• More to story on official's departure
• Hanging up the mailbag
• Still living 'the dream'
• Politics on the mind
• REVIEW: A distant, moving portrait of 'Dutch'
• Ogle administrator decides to step down
• Barajas gets back into economic development
• It's 'almost taxation without representation'
• Rock Falls man gets 5 years in prison, fine
• State finds nothing improper with Morrison
• Everything new under the sunflowers
• New church splits from Abiding Word
• Ohio woman ready to shine
• Rock Falls woman loses everything in fire
• Foul play ruled out in child's death
• 'That was a very fine trip'
• Blackhawk/Beier coming down
• United Way narrowly misses $710,000 goal
• Subdivision charged for emergency response
• Embezzlement prosecution proceeding slowly
• Putting their heads together
• Longtime volunteer honored for a particularly busy year
• Oregon's wastewater plant upgrade right on schedule
• Fire district considers random drug testing
• Official says money 'got lost along the way'
• Drowned man was drunk, tests confirm
• GE pays Morrison $650,000
• 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
• Dixon man charged with aggravated sex abuse
• 1996 murder remains unsolved
• 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
• Crime-free housing the goal for rentals
• Dixon's Tangibles ditching bricks and mortar, moving to the Web
• Economy forces Nikos' to call it quits
• Primp Your Pet moves to larger locale
• Each day’s another milestone for Dixon teen
• 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
• Rubio asks for lesser sentence
• Ag co-op buys local terminal
• Whiteside's United Way annual goal within reach
• Salvage yard seeks more time for cleanup
• Arrest in Rochelle shooting incident
• Lepperd case continued to Feb. 3
• See Reagan’s team, to help renovate his beach
• Chinese firm acquires Lee County wind project
• General Electric must pay state for mess
• Morrison keeps agreement with GE secret
• Dixon drowning ruled accidental
• Kohl's taking applications, setting up interviews
• 14th Congressional District back in GOP hands
• Prophetstown road to stay closed
• CGH-Sterling Rock Falls Clinic merger finalized
• Bemis back in the GM business
• Volunteers, donors help Dixon's new homeless shelter get set up
• Sentencing set for man in Amboy school break-in
• Washington Elementary students compete in geography bee
• Morrison still has no city administrator
• Rock Falls mayor makes his return
• Stricter sign rules wanted in Sterling: Officials aim to beautify the city
• PADS wins its rezoning request
• Alex: Happy to be back
• Rock Falls mayor needs more medical leave
• Residents protest Star Road closure
• Housing availability varies greatly
• Court Call
• New year, new life
• Father, son going to Iraq – together
• Hope, miracles highlight year
• Top crime stories in 2010
• Former Thomson guard sues
• Slim-n-Hank’s expands in purchase of Varga’s
• New Life eyeing new home
• Wendy's beats the clock in Dixon
• Prosecutors won't seek death penalty in baby's death
• Semi hauling trash totals empty building
• Dixon 'borrows' $679,000 to meet year-end bill obligations
• Game on! Asbestos abatement complete in Dixon High School gym
• No one injured in Dixon house fire Monday morning
• Bond set at $50,000 in gas station theft
• Bivins: Cut spending to fix budget
• Amboy man charged in Rock Falls Shell theft
• 'No one goes without food'
• Grain bin 
accident investigation continues
• Chamber names Next Picture Show its business of the year
• Court Call
• Public's role in riverfront stressed
• Hospitalized for the holidays
• Jobless rates fall again in Sauk Valley
• A major-league firefighter
• Tougher law keeps AG's office busy
• Dixon Chamber names its future leader
• Chief public defender becoming associate judge
• Self Help creates fund to make up for state shortfall
• Spalding's must move by March: Ashpoles caught in middle of 4-year legal battle over site
• Sheriff 
hopeful on bid to ICE
• State denies Pinecrest's appeal for tax relief
• Nature group pays $373,500 for rare piece of ‘presettlement’ prairie
• Rock Falls agrees to help Sterling with interim fire chief
• Mystery still surrounds Oregon woman's death
• No action at prison auction
• Rock Falls, Sterling set to share fire chief
• Sterling agrees to hire interim fire chief
• Eleven vying for four Dixon City Council seats
• Who ordered the white Christmas?
• Dixon homeless shelter move on hold
• Dixon's three mayoral candidates look ahead
• Sterling, Rock Falls candidates file petitions
• No holiday from gas price hike: Sauk Valley stations seeing mixed effects
• Grocery relief available to all
• For 40 years, volunteers have kept Leydig Center going strong in Dixon
• Court Call
• Open for Business: Ink Storm Tattoo
• 2 fatal wrecks on I-80 in Bureau County
• Hultgren, Schilling get assignments
• Tougher laws for sex offenders
• GE's toxic legacy in Morrison
• Judge denies Sheley motion for 2 juries
• PADS nearer to new home
• 4 candidates so far for Sterling school board
• Bureau County considers wind farm moratorium
• Mount Morris man faces new school break-in charges
• Dixon school board passes $16.7 million levy
• Sterling schools OK $12 million tax levy
• Rock Falls board OKs $10,000 loan to ROE
• 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
• Ogle sheriff making pitch for federal detention center
• Sterling schools slated to OK $12 million levy
• Filing open for Sterling, Coloma park districts
• Whooping cough on rise
• $4.5 million OK'd to fix Coliseum
• Chicago man wants new trial in bail-jumping case
• Hardee's dining room renovation nearly done
• Dixon candidates begin to file election petitions
• Morrison OKs budget, lower deficit
• Filing opens for Rock Falls city, Sterling school board races
• Court call
• Shoppin’ spree brings holiday glee
• A mission to serve
• Adams court documents
• Spending reduced in Morrison plan
• 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?
• Data: Local teacher and administrative salaries
• More experience means more pay for local administrators
• Local 4-H'ers crack national top 10 in horse trivia
• Final phase of Dixon’s citywide water well overhaul begins
• Prosecutors provide evidence to Curl's attorney
• Sheley wants two juries
• Poetry contest for students will honor Reagan's life
• Rock Falls Elementary OKs levy
• Rock Falls man makes holiday magic
• Dixon murder defendant wants confession thrown out
• Opening the inn
• Thomson prison auction less than 2 weeks away
• Deer harvest numbers up slightly here, down statewide
• Ogle board member gets Oprah's favorite things
• Sterling wants more RecycleBankers
• Rock Falls 13 levy higher that predicted
• Sterling Rock Falls Clinic updates online access
• 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
• Good Fellows spreading good cheer
• Oregon police looking for dead woman's backpack
• Tickets for Reagan show on sale now
• Weekend storm dumps 7.8 inches on Sauk Valley; Parking restrictions in effect
• Court Call
• Spalding's must move 
by Dec. 24
• Local economic boon with CKC route?
• YouTube not to blame, 'What the Buck' star says
• Forensic tests pending in Savanna toddler death
• Bill was a matter of rights
• Keeping people fed in the Sauk Valley
• Microwave show hosts 'aware' of Fulton death
• Mount Carroll wrongful death lawsuit (PDF)
• First snow on its way
• First snow on its way; local road crews are ready
• No charges in two deaths
• Sentencing rescheduled in sex abuse case
• Cities wary of reform's early costs
• Family sues grain bin company
• Holiday Happenings
• State Senate passes 'Erin's Law': Bill sponsored by local legislators
• Child sex offender loses bid for retrial
• Prosecution loses appeal in Lemons homicide case
• KSB Hospital's leader to retire
• 10-year-old boy pulls baby brother from fire
• 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
• Chicago woman arrested in Dixon drug-running investigation
• Teen killed in Ogle County 
hunting accident identified
• Classes, sports moving forward for Dixon students
• Panel taking complaints about disabled rights violations
• Broker gets 4 years for bilking clients
• KSB wins March of Dimes grant to help get babies to full term
• Body discovered in building's remains
• Local health officials say e-cigarettes not up to snuff
• Annual Amboy walk kicks off Christmas season
• Hot tips to reduce your wintertime heating bills
• E-trash to treasure
• Cut your own – or not
• Court Call
• Most local juniors not 'college ready'
• Cutting boards down to size
• House fire contained shortly after crews were called
• Arrest made after thefts at Dixon YMCA
• No contest: Newman rolls to 4th state title
• No sleep until the shopping's done
• Harkness buys out Warren Motors
• Slight shifts in local jobless rates
• Handling holiday heartache
• Sterling man charged in bar stabbing arraigned
• Sterling man gets probation in car vandalism case
• Teen dies in Ogle County hunting accident
• ComEd work leaves resident with some safety concerns
• Fire destroys Prophetstown machine shed
• Dairy Queen opens in Oregon
• Annual turkey dinner giveaway inspires local volunteers
• 'I'm back': Alex returns to cheers, tears
• Law firm skips gifts to give goodies to troops
• Asbestos removal to begin Monday at DHS
• Fire destroys historic downtown Fulton building
• Bail-jumper's sentencing rescheduled
• Sauk approves 2010 tax levy
• Morrison man charged with felony vandalism
• 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
• Heisman Trophy coming to Dixon
• Court Call: Roundup of some of this week's criminal cases
• Heisman comes to Dixon for a day
• Mr. Thanksgiving
• Dixon man arrested in series of car break-ins
• Local women get Oprah's favorite things
• Feds: Whiteside prepared for disaster
• A love that's sweeter than chocolate
• Fire merger in early talks
• Lawmakers: Vote wasn't against openness
• Erin's Law passes state House
• Ogle's Broos takes lead in merging Extension unit
• Districts reap federal jobs money
• Dixon: 'Haven't made my mind up'
• Your Weekend Top 5
• Dixon wants a historic business district
• Security a priority at nuclear plant
• Sterling man to be arraigned in stabbing case
• CGH opens Sterling walk-in clinic
• Sterling Main Street holiday CD release party on Saturday
• Asbestos fix could cost almost $500K
• RFHS approves $4.4 million levy
• Last Toys for Tots sign-up Saturday at Northland Mall
• Seminar to help landlords keep housing crime-free
• Lee wind farm review panel called 'biased'
• Rock Falls man given jail, probation in theft case
• New Dixon gauge will provide better flood prediction
• Sterling driver ticketed in crash with fire engine
• Dixon child abuse defendant to be arraigned Dec. 2
• Oregon man dies in fiery crash
• Red Cross CPR course Saturday in Dixon
• Sterling schools in need of repairs
• Board OKs $16.7 million levy proposal
• Sterling-Rock Falls moves forward with new court
• County approves budget, drug tests for sheriff's department
• Police investigating break-in at Tampico gas station
• Sterling police looking for driver in hit-and-run
• Cheap Trick drummer coming to Kidder Music
• Fire marshal investigating Savanna fire
• Rock Falls Fire to subscribe to online response system
• Carroll County crash victim upgraded to good condition
• Sterling Schools slated to approve preliminary levy
• Book signing today in Franklin Grove
• RFHS board set to approve levy resolution
• Riverfront work wins a Governor’s Cup award
• Court hearing today in Dixon child abuse case
• Savanna museum also wins a Governor’s Cup award
• $1.6 million deficit for Lee County
• ‘Dutch’ flavor highlights next Stupor Bowl
• Operation Piece of Home seeks donations for military care packages
• Possible good news for RF Elementary taxpayers
• Council approves creation of Sterling Special Recreation Association
• Polo City Council backs off 5 percent tax hike
• Years that are hard to replace
• Whiteside budget, contract approvals expected tonight
• Lee United Way close to its goal
• Dixon City Council approves last of well loans
• Lee says he's running for Sterling mayor
• New animal shelter nears completion
• Fire destroys Manny's Pizza in Savanna
• Masonry still enthralls 79-year-old Emerson man
• Sunday makes Saturday special
• Children collecting items for Polo food pantry
• Fire engine collides with car Sunday in Sterling
• Culvert replacement starts today near Morrison
• Court Call
• Meet and greet with Dixon mayoral candidate Saturday
• Wendy's, ALDI on the rise
• An honor for dozens of local veterans
• Jail deaths illustrate problem
• Sheley defense motion granted
• Not among friends
• Driver says he was blinded by sun
• Sterling earning rewards for RecycleBank program
• Serving during 
wartime
• Rock Falls brothers plead not guilty to meth-making
• Probation officer cleared of domestic battery
• Accident survivor now in serious condition
• Ben Shaw named chief digital officer
• Oregon Coliseum getting a new look
• Dead Dixon inmate was Kane County resident
• With meds gone, deputy out: Records show lax jail oversight of inmates’ prescription drugs
• Rivals for Ogle circuit clerk will work together
• Police looking for info on Meadows car burglaries
• Probation officer's battery trial gets under way
• Oregon city workers getting a 'bonus'
• VA signs lease for new clinic
• Dixon High gym closed
• Inspiring interaction: Therapeutic robotic seal visits Dixon nursing home
• Career soldier focused on mission: Gulf War vet signed on during the Cold War
• Morrison looking for new administrator
• Emerson man recalls service at MASH unit in Vietnam
• Jury seated in probation officer's trial
• Accident survivor remains in critical condition
• Rock Falls family burned out of new home
• Schools working to combat bullying
• Sterling veteran recounts service during Korean War
• Mount Caroll woman dies in crash
• Digging up their family history
• Court Call: Roundup of Sauk Valley criminal cases
• Schools falling behind: More local schools, districts falling short of standards
• Dixon man charged with selling heroin
• Taking cues from youth: Rock Falls Billiards Club offers recreation alternative
• Dixon man handled anti-aircraft guns during World War II
• Schools have a lot riding on test results
• Lanark man crushed by truck
• One-room schools focus of photo exhibit
• Duis Center updates shine
• Defense: Delgado baby had health problems
• Morrison man's fraud sentence postponed
• Silent Night at the cabin
• Health, safety repairs OK'd for Oregon schools
• Ogle board may dip into Solid Waste Fund
• Attempted murder defendant free on recognizance bond
• 10-year term for armed robbery attack
• Winners ready to work
• Sterling man pleads not guilty in weapons case
• Two villages plan to limit wind farms
• Child singer chases dreams
• KizMaz wants to keep it live
• Battery preliminary hearing delayed for Dixon man
• Schilling, Hultgren ride the GOP wave
• McDermott prevails over write-in
• Incumbents retain most Lee County board seats
• Republican recaptures 14th District
• 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
• Mitchell wins ninth bid for the 90th Assembly District
• Wilhelmi still top cop
• Polo accepts land deal, changes police hiring standards
• Dixon OKs new snowmobile rules
• It’s time to vote! Midterm dramas to be decided today
• Plea in school burglary case rescheduled
• Plant 1 will be reduced to rubble
• Dixon man coaxed out of home by tactical unit
• Rock Falls wins $240,000 for bike path work
• Rural fire district meeting tonight
• Schilling makes a final stop in Sterling
• Court Call
• Benefits of wind farms topic of presentation
• Extensions combining, moving to Sauk
• Project VITAL gets $51,600 state grant
• New retail construction progresses in Sterling
• ‘Lowell Park’ project still in the works
• Rockford woman gets probation, restitution in embezzlement
• Oregon voters to decide if they want a new library
• Don't wait up
• Titans of business: Local students 
compete in Titan Competition at Sauk
• CGH Foundation hits its campaign mark
• Jobless rates dip below 10 percent
• Amboy woman gets probation, jail in sex abuse case
• State orders records release
• Uphill climb for Gaulrapp in 16th District
• Move over, barn quilts
• Breaking down the bust
• Two measures on Fulton ballot
• 14th foes stop in Dixon
• Murder defendant asks for reduction in $1 million bond
• Hare makes his closing arguments
• Special night for special people in Sterling
• Twister destroys Ashton 
outbuildings
• Dixon considers new snowmobile rules
• Crews wrapping up Hennepin Avenue project
• Sterling bars can stay open later on Sunday
• Council OKs issuing $4.5 million in bonds to rebuild Coliseum
• Sentencing rescheduled in Ashton armed robbery case
• Novak's still in ring for Round 3
• O’Leary’s teardown on hold
• Byron holds vigil for Marine
• Bureau County to vote on jail referendum
• A fight to the finish
• 'He made everyone smile'
• Mom says support system has been strong
• Court Call
• Law firm celebrates century of service
• A return for Republicans in 14th?
• 'A place to lay our heads'
• Byron Marine killed in Afghanistan
• Breaking a silent epidemic
• One man's obsession really takes off
• O'Leary's demo delayed until Monday
• The cleanup begins: Early investigations under way; little to salvage
• Tracking of a sex offender
• No debates in sight in 17th District
• Three injured in East Lincolnway rollover
• Another Reagan landmark
• Sad O’Leary’s fans reminisce
• Polo Historical Society wins statewide preservation award
• ‘Turnaround Tour’ bus rolls into Sauk Valley
• Police still investigating Sterling man's shooting
• Grand jury hearing in infant death delayed
• Fire destroys O’leary’s: No one injured; building must be torn down, fire chief says
• Sheriff: Private funds would have to pay for detention center
• Fire guts Sterling bungalow
• Hoping for miracles
• A new place to play
• Road work wrapping up
• Arson guts Polo corn crib
• Rock Falls dam fixed
• Some nonprofits at risk of losing tax-exempt status
• History Channel crew films in Dixon
• Reagan historical marker unveiled: Tampico marks start of centennial celebration
• Stranded boaters caught in the shallows
• Court Call
• Republicans to have meet-and-greet
• Honoring the dead in Dixon
• Clear sailing ahead on Hennepin Canal?
• Shopping center accessorizes
• Pills pose a problem at school
• Tighter budgets mean teachers 
are getting crafty
• Hearing set in Atherton homicide case
• Dam repair near completion
• Happy birthday, Bill, but ...
• Kilbride may push for cameras in courtrooms
• Dixon schools’ budget forces personnel to take extra duties
• District 2 candidates share views
• Battery hearing for Dixon man now Nov. 3
• Replacing the splashboards
• Cause of inmate’s death undetermined
• Fifth-grader making progress: Benefit planned for Morrison boy recovering from lightning strike
• Sterling woman gets probation for selling prescription drugs
• State bar recommends Kilbride for retention
• Sterling drive-by shooting suspects plead not guilty
• Not guilty plea in Compton marijuana production case
• Bonds set for three accused cocaine dealers
• Dixon Riverfront vandalized: Five park benches thrown into river
• Board recommends tax break for Pinecrest community center
• Retired Dixon 
officer reflects on 25 years of service
• Girl, 9, injured after being hit by car
• Lee County Board forum tonight
• Spotlight on sheriff’s race
• No new home for homeless shelter
• Suspected coke dealers face a raft of felony charges
• Dam repairs progressing
• Booker gets White's endorsement
• Council honors K-9 unit
• Brady: I'll put people first
• Coliseum project back on the drawing board
• Lee County tracks sex offenders
• Man shot in stomach awaiting surgery
• Rock Falls man, 79, sentenced for theft from elderly woman
• Sauk Valley candidates on hand tonight
• Council on aging welcomes new leader
• Pumpkin Dash provides family fun
• Autumn on Parade ushers in fall
• ATV crash injures Fulton man
• Cimco fire an industrial accident, captain says
• Dixon firefighters plan fire prevention week activities
• Court call
• 2 Amboy students arrested
• Father of dead infant arrested
• Schools, like kids, work to improve
• PADS prepares for more people
• Oregon business cited in wake of fire
• Sterling beating victim released from hospital
• Some Amboy High students sharing Ritalin
• Farmers on a record pace: Corn, soybeans way ahead of schedule in northwest Illinois
• Smoke roils from Galt scrap yard
• Details emerge in drive-by shootings
• Seeing through the stereotypes
• Trial set in Northland Mall break-in
• Chicago man guilty of bail-jumping
• Upper Dam repairs get under way
• More charges possible in child porn case
• Expert to aid in death investigation
• Sterling buying, rehabbing homes
• Smithsonian exhibit comes to Dixon
• Market appreciation: Sterling grocery getting a new look, inside and out
• Dixon man charged with child porn
• Charges pending against juvenile
• Third 
candidate comes forward: Jilderda wants to represent ‘working man’ in Dixon
• Power plant rendered powerless: Low river will mean higher bills in Rock Falls
• Former Oregon banker pleads guilty to embezzlement
• State cuts gut Sinnissippi: Clients soon will find mental health services more costly
• New M&D’s owners want more bar time
• Opening arguments begin today in Lee County bond violation case
• River drag turns up no evidence in Byron homicide
• The debate on debates rages on
• Police waiting for toxicology report in train death
• Dixon welcomes its Kenyan brothers and sisters
• Tasers will make some arrests 
less dangerous
• Local chambers sponsoring candidates forum
• 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’
• Voter fair draws 30 candidates
• Deuth and Chittum become assistants at local COUNTRY office
• State’s top ethics cop visits Sterling
• Dam fix in works to raise the Rock
• Rescues and Runways to benefit Happy Tails
• Schipper appointed to Whiteside County Board
• Broadband project to bring speed, cost savings
• Three teens injured in single-car crash
• Fifth house hit in Sterling shootings
• United Way drive kicks off in Lee County
• Second shooting spree suspect surrenders
• Second shooting suspect arrested
• Morrison man, 36, killed by train
• Court call
• Vietnam wall to come to Iowa
• More are working in region: Jobless rates were down in August
• ‘A park of respect’: Several local sites pay homage to area veterans
• Kenyan contingent set for Sister City visit
• Infant dies from head injuries
• IEA chief talks teacher evaluations at forum
• Mother Of Slain Navy Seal Will Speak Out Against Transfer Of Guantanamo Detainees To Illinois

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