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ROCKFORD — A 69-year-old Rockford woman has been identified as the victim of a fatal crash from last week. The crash happened Thursday afternoon on Forest Hills Road near Pleasant Valley Boulevard. Brenda Fultz was a passenger in one of two vehicles that collided at the intersection. Fultz was taken to a nearby hospital...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Rockford Police Gang Unit, and the StateLine Area Narcotics Team cooperated in the arrest of three people in a major Rockford drug investigation. Rockford Police said the investigation had been on-going for the past few months. On Wednesday, June 22nd, five search warrants were executed […]

Are you drooling over this photo? I sure am. Sign me up for this pork chop. Of all of the industries hurt hard from the Pandemic, we all know the restaurant industry it still in recovery mode. First it was the automatic shut down. Then it was the restricted hours,...

Multiple charges stemming from a joint narcotics investigation with the Rockford Police Department. and the DEA-Chicago Division Rockford Resident Office. During the past few months, the Rockford Police Department Narcotics Unit,. along with the DEA-Chicago Division Rockford Resident Office, received information regarding. individuals selling narcotics in the City of Rockford...

Sources are reporting a shooting incident. This one happened around 10:20 pm last night, in the 200 block of N Highland. Officials have confirmed they are investigating a shooting incident. We have conflicting reports of possible injuries, So it is unknown. Officials have not released any details about the incident,...

MADISON, Wis. — The man accused of shooting and killing his co-worker at a Janesville business in April pleaded not guilty Monday, online court records show. Kevin Todd, 23, of Evansville is charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety. A criminal complaint filed with the Rock County Circuit Court alleges that Todd shot and killed 30-year-old Devon Hills at Precision Drawn Metals. He allegedly confessed to the shooting while speaking to police.

Lake Geneva had its five minutes of fame June 24 when "Today with Hoda and Jenna" featured the Walworth County town as part of its Summer Getaways series. While the segment aired nationally on June 24 (interrupted locally by the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade), the crew visited Lake Geneva on June 16.

Thanks to the 4th of July falling on a Monday this year, we not only get a 3-day weekend, but we get 3 days of fireworks shows to check out too!. I will admit that I have a love/hate relationship with fireworks. I HATE when my husband goes and blows...

A Machesney Park family will be welcoming home their fallen husband, son, brother, cousin, nephew, and friend this week, and we need to be there to show our respect and support. The Life of Marine Corporal Nathan Carlson. According to his obituary, Nathan Carlson entered the Marine corp right after...

99% of wedding receptions have toasts (or speeches) and they are usually fundamentally the same. As a part-time wedding DJ/master of ceremonies, I can say this with authority. Typically, the maid of honor's toast evokes emotion and laughter and the best man brings more embarrassing moments that are safe enough to not get anyone in trouble. Only a few times have I full-on cringed to a best man's speech and only once have I cut one off completely like that scene in The Wedding Singer.

Compiled a list of the largest sources of immigrants in Rockford in 1900 using data transcribed from the 1900 U.S. Census. Originally published on stacker.com, part of the TownNews Content Exchange.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - For as cloudy, damp, and dreary as Saturday was in the Stateline, Sunday could not have possibly been more of an opposite. Sunshine prevailed from start to finish on Sunday, though temperatures didn’t surge nearly to the extent they had done so in days past. For the second straight day, temperatures failed to get out of the 70s, a far cry from the lengthy string of 90s we had seen last week.

Initial reports are saying there is a structure fire in Roscoe. It happened around 12:50 pm near the 4400 block of Bell View. A MABAS box 11 to the 2nd alarm. Several area fire departments are en route to assist. Still developing…. You can follow us on Twitter, Youtube, Facebook.

TOWN OF BELOIT A group of Ho-Chunk Nation children and adults paddled into Beloit on Friday in a dugout canoe similar to what their ancestors used. This dugout canoe was carved from a cottonwood tree that was donated by Dane County, and the group undertook a five-day journey on the Rock River from Middleton to Beloit. ...

JANESVILLE Mason Schmidtke finished second in the 2022 WIAA Division 1 boys state golf tournament. Nineteen days later, the 17-year-old won the prestigious Wisconsin Public Links Association Ray Fischer State Amateur Championship at Riverside Golf Course in Janesville. “For me, it just came together at the right moment,” Schmidtke said as he soaked in the...

The owners of a proposed mulch business in Seward Township have removed their application for a special use permit to operate as a landscaping business. However, since forestry is an allowed use at the property, located on Route 53 near Arbeiter Road, the company could open without a special use permit.

I had no other plans for my birthday weekend besides making the two-hour drive to Rockford, IL to see my best friend. He suggested we could see a baseball game Friday evening. But then he remembered the Rockford City Market was taking place on Madison Street, in the city's downtown.