Whiteside County Coroner Joseph McDonald released the names of the three teenagers killed Thursday in a collision with a semi at the intersection of Hahnaman and Luther Roads outside the village.
Three students are dead following a crash at the intersection of Hahnaman and Luther roads in rural Tampico; a fourth teen sustained serious, but nonlife-threatening, injuries, sheriff says.
A Fulton woman who threatened a Walmart worker with a gun after she got caught shoplifting in the self-checkout lane at the Sterling store was sentenced to five years in prison.
The City Council on Monday voted unanimously to enter into a pre-annexation agreement that would start the legal process to bring 15700 Lincoln Road into city limits, and also authorized the mayor to ratify a subdivision plat named the Tractor Supply addition.
A 19-year-old Rock Falls man was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for firing a gun at an occupied vehicle on April 12.
Jurors found Matthew Plote, 36, of Malta, guilty of killing Melissa Lamesch 27, and her unborn baby on Nov. 25, 2020, and then setting her home on fire to conceal their deaths.
A 41-year-old Sterling man with an extensive history of drugs and theft in six counties was sentenced to three years’ probation in Lee County for dealing meth in a case that originally also had him indicted on a narcotics racketeering charge.
Jurors deliberated for two hours Friday night before they found Matthew T. Plote, 36, of Malta, guilty of murdering Melissa Lamesch, 27, who was nine months pregnant Nov. 25, 2020 – just one day before Thanksgiving and two days before the baby was to be born.
Shawn Keane, 46, of Dixon, died from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash on Dixon Avenue west of Stacie Lane in rural Rock Falls.