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.
A 31-year-old registered sex offender from rural Rock Falls was sentenced to 2 1/2 years’ probation for bruising a 6-year-old boy
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.
The 55-year-old owner of the Asian Buffet restaurant, 3106 E. Lincolnway, was investigated last week and charged by police with aggravated battery.
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.
The trial of a Rock Falls man accused of beating a neighbor so badly that the man died three weeks later of his injuries was postponed Tuesday morning, minutes before jury selection was set to begin.
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.