Dixon Police Department

The Ultimate Tailgate, Mom2Mom Market, United Way Day of Caring also on slate of weekend activities.

Two more Dixon taverns were added as defendants in a lawsuit filed in the death of a 28-year-old man who died after being thrown or otherwise “exiting” a moving car.

A 32-year-old Dixon man will serve four years’ probation after pleading guilty Thursday to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.

Bond was reduced Monday for a 46-year-old Dixon man who the Ogle County sheriff said attacked three of his deputies, breaking some bones, and who had to be subdued with a taser device.

An Arkansas man with a first-degree murder charge hanging over his head for 10 years, in a 40-year-old case, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.

The mother of a 28-year-old who died when, police said, he “exited” a moving vehicle is suing the driver and the Dixon bar where he drank.

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.

Police officers and deputies helped raise money for Illinois Special Olympics in fundraisers held at Dunkin' locations in Rock Falls and Dixon.

Dixon police officers raised money at Dunkin' Donuts Friday, May 19, 2023 for Illinois Special Olympics.

Dixon,Rock Falls, and Whiteside County law enforcement will be sitting on rooftops Friday, raising money for Special Olympics.

Update: A 31-year-old Dixon man was charged Monday with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child.

A Milledgeville sex offender was sentenced in Lee County Court to four years on meth and child pornography charges, a term that was bumped up to 14 years because of recent Carroll County convictions.

Dixon police took possession of a loaded handgun in a male student’s vehicle Monday while it was parked on school property, police said. Administrators at Dixon High School contacted police shortly after noon on Monday.

Dixon residents are being warned of a gang of thieves posing as water department workers.

A Georgia man who investigators say contacted a 10-year-old Dixon girl via social media is facing kidnapping and multiple counts of raping the child.