Matthew Plote waived his right to a 12-person jury on Monday, opting for six people to decide his fate.
Process of leaving the West Carroll School District and joining the River Bend School District is highly regulated by school code and legal requirements, official says.
Sarah Safranek, 37, is facing five counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery in the February 2021 death of her 7-year-old son, Nathaniel Burton.
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.
Cardinals softball team falls to Newman; boys win at Genoa
Matthew T. Plote, 36, is accused of killing Melissa Lamesch, 27, and her unborn baby on Nov. 25, 2020, and then setting fire to her home in Mt. Morris to conceal their deaths.