Kathleen A. Schultz

As is required after every U.S. Census, all 27 Whiteside County Board seats – nine in each district – were up for election Tuesday.

Republican Esther Joy King and Democrat Eric Sorensen will face off in November in what will be a closely watched race for Illinois’ 17th Congressional District.

Sublette man faced charges on six counts.

Fireworks and more are planned around the Sauk Valley this Fourth of July holiday.

Republican Esther Joy King and Democrat Eric Sorensen will face off in November in what will be a closely watched race for Illinois’ 17th Congressional District.

A Thomson prison inmate is facing a federal murder charge and life in prison in the death of his cellmate, a fellow Navajo who was stabbed repeatedly on Nov. 27, 2020.

As with the rest of the country, local opinions on Friday’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaving the right to have an abortion up to each state – and in Illinois, they remain legal – are mixed.

Six Democrats are making a bid in Tuesday’s primary to replace 17th Congressional District Rep. Cheri Bustos of East Moline, who decided not to seek reelection after her fifth term in office.

The Whiteside County Board will distribute slightly more than $2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to 59 of the 117 entities that applied for assistance because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Four men accused of speeding through Rock Falls, rolling their car, and tossing a gun before scurrying off into the woods are facing a raft of felony drug and weapons charges after police found two guns, cocaine, MMDA and marijuana, authorities said.

Four men are in custody and a handgun was found after a rollover around 8:30 a.m. at 800 E. Rock River Road/U.S. Route 30 closed a section the road for more than three hours

John Fritts, former Lee County treasurer and campaign manager for family member Bradley J. Fritts, died Monday in a car crash in Earlville, the campaign announced on its Facebook page this morning.

The gunshot that took the life of a 21-year-old Amboy man Sunday was self-inflicted, after an argument with his 19-year-old wife, the Lee County sheriff said.

A 21-year-old Amboy man is dead of an apparent gunshot wound, and his 19-year-old wife was taken to a Rockford hospital with unspecified injuries Sunday, the Lee County sheriff said.

A 21-year-old Rock Falls man accused of sexually abusing and grooming a minor and making child pornography is in Whiteside County jail on $100,000 bond.