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A driver is dead after his vehicle caught fire after crashing into a tree on state Route 40/Pennington Road just north of Fulfs Road, by Oak Knoll cemetery in rural Sterling.

Sycamore police confirmed Friday that a reported bomb threat at Jewel-Osco grocery store on Peace Road was determined to be unsubstantiated this week. Similar threats were reported at other locations across the region including Minooka.

K-9 Drax, a beloved member of the DeKalb Police Department’s law enforcement family, died Wednesday after succumbing to a medical issue, according to an announcement by the police department.

A Dixon woman indicted by a Lee County grand jury in the theft of more than $50,000 from a local trucking company is free on a $10,000 recognizance bond.

A Sycamore man with a false license plate of “I WONT RUN” – who was charged twice in five months for driving more than 100 miles an hour – now faces having his 2015 blue Ford Mustang seized.

A Hinckley man is facing charges after an Illinois Attorney General’s investigation alleged he was in possession of and also disseminated child pornography. He could face up to 120 years in jail, a DeKalb County judge said.

A candlelight vigil will be held Thursday to mark the third anniversary of an arson fire in Sterling that killed three people, including two children.

Federal prosecutors are seeking an indictment against a Prophetstown man accused of attempting to burn down a future reproductive health clinic where abortions will be performed.

A person on a weekday commute via Metra train from DeKalb to downtown Chicago might expect a 90 to 105-minute trek, according to a feasibility study recently released by the city of DeKalb. The costs to operate that line could be about $11M per year, the study shows.

Dallas said the students were like his kids, and he's most proud of the relationships he built as school resource officer at Dixon High School.

Two motorcyclists, one from Dixon, died Sunday night in a collision with a car, the State Police said Tuesday.

A trial date could be coming for a DeKalb man charged with fatally shooting a 33-year-old man 13 times over an alleged marijuana deal in March, a DeKalb County judge said.

The new splash pad at Central Park, home of Grandon Civic Center is open, just in time for your three-day weekend.

To read some of Marlon King Jr.’s diary entries, he was a young father who had his future in mind. "Don’t judge him from his final day on the planet," mom Tara McCarthy said of her son, 19, killed in a DeKalb shooting May 11.

A DeKalb woman has been accused of defrauding her former employer, Cole Pallet, out of more than $1.4 million over a six-year span by cashing unauthorized checks, transferring funds and buying personal items on the company’s Amazon account and having them sent to her home.