Charlene Bielema

Several Illinois Lottery players won big money from Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, including the holder of a $50,000 winning ticket purchased at a Rock Falls convenience store. The jackpot is now at $1.7B for the Sept. 6 drawing

A Dixon man has been charged with aggravated battery and several other offenses after police say he chased a family member with a knife Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, and injured a person who disarmed him.

The crash happened about 11 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Garden Plain and Sand roads in rural Fulton.

A Rock Falls man has been sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to separate Whiteside County cases that accuse him of recklessly shooting a firearm in May 2024 and possessing meth

The single-vehicle crash happened Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, on Moline Road west of Yorktown Road, according to a Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office news release. She's the second Erie resident to die in a crash in less than a week.

After about 3 1/2 hours of deliberation Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, a Whiteside County jury said it had found Zachary J. Rivera not guilty of five counts of unlawful restraint and one count of battery, making physical contact, according to court documents.

The crash happened at 3:03 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, on Moline Road near Hillside Road, according to a Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office news release.

A Whiteside County judge ruled Monday that a Sterling man accused of robbing a Morrison bank in July will undergo a mental fitness evaluation at the request of his attorney.

The Dixon Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in locating David Dykema, 52, of Dixon. Dykema was last seen early on the morning of Monday, Aug. 18, 2025.

The state’s appellate court has vacated a Whiteside County judge’s 2024 ruling denying a Sterling man’s motion to withdraw the guilty plea he made three years ago in the 2017 drunken driving death of a Sterling woman.

According to court records, the two were charged after they were pulled over during an Aug. 3 traffic stop near Lincoln Road and Rock Falls Road near Rock Falls

A Dixon man faces several drug and weapons charges following an early morning car crash Sunday in Amboy where responding deputies said they smelled cannabis and alcohol.

John R. Anderson, III, 42, pleaded not guilty Wednesday Aug. 6, 2025, to two counts of aggravated stalking, five counts of stalking, harassment by telephone, and three counts of violating an order of protection.

Two counts of aggravated battery filed against Carlos T. Loyola, 27, of Rock Falls, were dismissed July 31, 2025.

Vesuc, a German Shepherd, had last been seen around 1 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in the area of West Graham Street in Dixon.