Kathleen A. Schultz

The Lee/Ogle and Carroll County public transportation systems are getting an infusion of state money to expand facilities and, in LOTS’ case, to add a pair of electric buses, the governor’s office said in a news release Wednesday.

Police are looking for a 28-year-old Dixon man charged with seven counts of sexually assaulting a juvenile girl in 2019.

The Sterling man accused of driving drunk, fatally running over a pedestrian and injuring a police officer, was arraigned today in Whiteside County Court.

Services will be held Tuesday for a 22-year-old Dixon man killed Friday in a rollover near Harmon.

Investigators identify the driver accused of driving drunk, hitting and killing a pedestrian Sunday morning on the First Avenue Bridge in Sterling.

A Sterling pedestrian is dead and an officer injured after a drunken driver struck both men on the First Avenue Bridge just south of Wallace Street Sunday morning, police said.

A Rock Falls man was hospitalized Thursday with carbon monoxide poisoning after a generator he was using to provide heat – because his electricity was cut off – tripped his carbon monoxide alarm, he said.

A 22-year-old Dixon man is dead after a rollover on U.S. Route 30 near Harmon Road shortly after midnight.

A local developer plans to build 10 luxury, furnished apartments in the top five floors of the Midland States Banks building in downtown Sterling

The Rock Falls man charged with shooting and wounding a fellow bar patron Sunday is free after posting $5,000 of his $50,000 bond.

The Woodlawn Arts Academy in Sterling is the recipient of a $10,000 National Endowment of the Arts grant that it will share with its partner, the Penguin Project of the Sauk Valley, to create a Broadway-revue-style musical group, and to enhance the Penguins theater program.

Rock Island’s former chief of police is Whiteside County’s new chief deputy.

Police have found a man they say failed to register as a sex offender as required. Daniel L. Williams, 37, was arrested at 3:30 p.m. Monday in a traffic stop in the 1500 block of Avenue G and taken to Whiteside County jail. He has a bond hearing this afternoon.

Police are asking for the public’s help locating Daniel L. Williams, 37, who they say is out of compliance with his sex offender registration.

A 49-year-old Rock Falls man is in custody after a bar fight late Sunday that resulted in the shooting and wounding of another patron, police said in a news release this morning.