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NEW YORK (AP) — A wave of bomb threats emailed Thursday to hundreds of schools, businesses and government buildings across the U.S. triggered searches, evacuations and fear — but there were no signs of explosives, and authorities said the…

ROCKFORD -- Rockford-area police agencies are investigating bomb threats at various businesses. The Rockford Catholic Diocese received a threat at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The building was quickly evacuated and and police searched the…

ROCKFORD -- The hotly contested $1.7 million host-fee subsidy to help Costco open in Loves Park was approved by the Winnebago County Board Thursday. The board voted 12-7 to approve the funding. David Boomer, R-4, abstained. The previous…

ROCKFORD -- The former director of operations for the Rockford Area Economic Development Council was charged in federal court Thursday with one count of mail fraud and one count of tax fraud. Leilani Hillis, 60, had been the subject of…

ROCKFORD -- A Winnebago couple has been indicted on a host of criminal charges in connection with the alleged abuse of two children. Christopher J. Williams, 47, and Kathryn A. Williams, 49, were arrested Wednesday on 24 charges each,…

ROCKFORD -- A man Rockford Police investigators say is connected to four armed robberies is still at large. The robberies occurred Tuesday, Dec. 11 with between 7 p.m. and 8:10 p.m. Around 7 p.m., at Boost Mobile, 3201 Auburn St.,…

SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Bruce Rauner is urging the incoming administration to continue his work in rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the state’s Medicaid system, and to clarify rules for state workers who belong to the same union as the…

ROCKFORD -- The owner of the dilapidated Essex Wire property on North Main Street, on Wednesday, was ordered to pay a total of $216,000 in fines or possibly face jail time. Judge Lisa Fabiano ordered Paul Bennett of A.W. Enterprises to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, who as President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer once vowed he would "take a bullet" for his boss, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for an array of crimes that included arranging the…

UPDATE: Winnebago County Coroner Bill Hintz's office reported Wednesday afternoon that Jamie Stephens died from multiple gunshot wounds. ROCKFORD -- The body found Monday in rural Winnebago County has been identified and police are…

GURNEE, Ill.--  Six Flags Great America has received the last vote from the Rock Valley College approving the final of 11 real estate tax abatements on the Magic Waters property. Six Flags Great America now has the necessary approvals to…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is urging his Illinois counterpart to help pay for a project to keep invasive carp establishing themselves in the Great Lakes. Snyder sent a letter Tuesday to fellow outgoing Republican…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, asked a judge Tuesday to spare him prison time, saying he had devoted his career to his country and taken responsibility for an "uncharacteristic error…

CHICAGO (AP) — Three men have been arrested on felony drug charges after police seized more than $1 million worth of marijuana during raids of a condominium in Chicago and a home in a nearby suburb. Brothers Ruben and Sergio Estrada and…