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Sewer Equipment Company of America, which 12 years ago moved from Chadwick to the Lee County Business Park in Dixon, has bought a second nearby parcel upon which it will build a parts distribution center.
A Rock Falls man with a long history of battery convictions, now accused of beating a 46-year-old man so badly that he fractured his skull and caused a brain bleed, turned himself in to the sheriff’s department on a Whiteside County warrant for aggravated battery.
A 34-year-old Rock Falls man on probation for possession of meth in Whiteside County is jailed in Clinton, Iowa, accused of breaking into the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre on March 5 and stealing costumes, money, and musical and electronic equipment.
A Rock Falls man with a baker’s dozen of pending felony cases dating to 2018 entered into a plea agreement Monday in all 13.
The Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, 2106 First Ave./state Route 40, was closed after a Rock Falls Fire Department inspection, done Tuesday at the request of the city, found no “functioning fire alarm and sprinkler system.”
A 29-year-old Sterling man charged four years ago in several area break-ins was sentenced this week to two-and-a-half years’ probation in one case, while a second case was dismissed.
A former Savanna woman who, along with her adult son, is the subject of the state’s first civil hate-crime suit, pleaded guilty in Carroll County court to harassing her Black neighbor.
As promised at the beginning of the year, the Whiteside County Health Department began construction Monday on another expansion of the federally funded Community Health Clinic at 1300 W. Second St.
After negotiating with the owners of properties along the 400 block of East Third Street downtown that were destroyed or damaged by a fatal fire on July 7, the city will pay $138,000 for four sites it plans to redevelop.
An 18-year-old Mount Morris man charged with attempted murder, and who one of his purported victims said has mental health issues, was released from jail Thursday with a list of conditions he must obey to remain free, including submitting to inpatient treatment.
A 4-year-old rural Monroe Center child died Thursday in a Rockford hospital after being attacked by a dog, the Ogle County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday on its website.
A repurposed Pignatelli building also on Amber Hoffman’s to-do list.
An 18-year-old Mt. Morris man is in Ogle County jail, charged with attempted murder after, according to the charging document, he hit a 62-year-old woman in the head with a dumbbell, then tried to strangle her, and also bit a piece of a toe off another woman older than 60.
Two plumbers working near the Rock Falls sewer plant west of town were rescued after being overcome by methane gas in a storm drain in which they were working, Rock Falls Fire Chief Ken Wolf said Monday.
A former Savanna man who, along with his mother, is the subject of the state’s first civil hate-crime suit, was found not guilty Thursday at a bench trial on a related criminal misdemeanor charge.