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By Jim Hagerty Reporter ROCKFORD - A Winnebago County judge, on Thursday, ruled that a 22-year-old man accused of killing his father last year is unfit to stand trial. Justin Joiner, was charged with first-degree murder and…

By Cole Lauterbach The Center Square CHICAGO - The summer concert season is here and with that comes ticket scammers looking to take advantage of some high-profile concerts coming to Illinois, including the Rolling Stones tour opener…

Staff Report ROCKFORD - Local law enforcement agencies are teaming up to help motivate kids to become our area’s next leaders. The Rockford Police Department, Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department and the Rockford Police Benevolent…

By Pat Eaton-Robb Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened — the…

Staff Report ROCKFORD – Urban Equity Properties, on Wednesday, held a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off construction of CA Flats, a multi-unit redevelopment project at 327 W. Jefferson St., downtown. Built in 1927, the brick and…

Staff Report ROCKFORD - The Rockford Police Department, on Wednesday, released its latest crime statistics and reported that violent crime was down by 21 percent from January through May compared to the same time last year. In…

By Jill Colvin, Jonathan Lemire and Michael Schneider Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump jabbed at the press and poked the political establishment he ran against in 2016 as he kicked off his reelection campaign…

By Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation's…

By Jim Hagerty Reporter ROCKFORD - A Rockford man is in custody following a shooting that left another man dead and a woman wounded Tuesday morning on the city's near-east side.  Quinton Smith, 23, is charged with first-degree…

By Jim Hagerty Reporter ROCKFORD - One man is dead and another wanted by police after a shooting in Rockford's near-east side Tuesday morning.  Rockford Police Chief Dan O'Shea said the department's ShotSpotter alarm was triggered at…

By Greg Bishop The Center Square SPRINGFIELD - An economist from a nonpartisan think tank said poverty rates could climb if Illinois changes from a flat income tax to a structure with higher rates for higher earners. Illinois'…

By Jim Hagerty Reporter ROCKFORD - Five people have been charged after a monthslong drug investigation involving a residence in Rockford and Loves Park bar. According to police, authorities received complaints that 38-year-old…

By Don Babwin and Rick Callahan Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An infant boy who was cut from a Chicago woman's womb with a butcher knife died Friday at a hospital where he had been in grave condition since the April attack that killed…

By Jim Hagerty Reporter ROCKFORD - Charles S. DeHeaan, the former Rockford-area doctor already serving time in federal prison for Medicare fraud, was sentenced Friday to nine years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for aggravated…