A Rock Falls man accused of injuring five others in a four-vehicle drunken crash Tuesday evening while running from Dixon police was ordered Thursday to be held in Lee County jail as his case proceeds.

A Rock Falls man on the lam for a month in a Sterling shooting incident was arrested after fleeing a traffic stop shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, lead Detective Maggie Ellmaker said.

A Rock Falls woman is charged with arson after prosecutors said she set a car on fire in Rock Falls.

A Rock Falls man accused of speeding through Dixon Tuesday evening while fleeing police, crashing into three other vehicles and injuring six people, including himself, is facing multiple DUI and other felonies in Lee County Court.

“An individual” who may have been involved in a fatal hit-and-run Monday in Walton contacted the department Tuesday to report that he or she was in a crash near that location, Lee County Sheriff Clay Whelan said in a news release Wednesday.

A Rock Falls man who police say they tried to pull over in the middle of the night on a bike was arrested Tuesday on meth and cocaine charges.

Lee County sheriff’s deputies are looking for the driver who struck and killed the 40-year-old pedestrian around 9:30 p.m. Monday near the intersection of Sterling and Walton roads in Walton.

The former accounting administrator for Woodhaven Lakes in Sublette will be sentenced Jan. 17 for embezzling more than $300,000 from the lakeside resort.

The attorney general is prosecuting the owner of a Rockford firearms training company and a GOP candidate for state Senate who the AG says falsified information in Ogle County for clients applying for conceal-carry permits.