Dixon Police Department

A Rock Falls man accused of injuring five others in a four-vehicle drunken crash while running from Dixon police on Dec. 5 pleaded guilty Thursday to aggravated DUI, three or more convictions, and was sentenced to six years in prison, with no credit for time served.

The driver of a Midwest Disposal garbage truck could be cited after the dumpster box on his truck became lodged under a train bridge over U.S. Route 52/Galena Avenue in rural Dixon, near Anchor Road, police said.

A Cedar Rapids, Iowa man is charged in Lee County with setting his pickup on fire in an attempt to defraud his insurance company.

A Dixon man is charged with aggravated battery and aggravated cruelty to animals, both felonies, after police say he cut a woman’s finger with a serrated knife that he also used to cut and stab her dog in the head and neck.

Dixon police officers Garrett Morhardt and Evan Grady were each sworn in Monday night during the regular Dixon City Council meeting.

After looking at the evidence, the Lee County state’s attorney opted to charge an Earlville parolee accused of stealing a vehicle in rural Dixon with three felonies, not the four the sheriff’s office thought he would be charged with.

An Earlville man wanted for absconding while on parole on a three-year DUI sentence out of DeKalb County – and who also has a pending felony DUI case in Lee County – was arrested Sunday in Dixon in a stolen vehicle, the Lee County Sheriff's Office said Monday.

An 18-year-old Dixon man accused of robbing Casey’s early Wednesday while masked and displaying a handgun was arrested about an hour later carrying “a very realistic looking Glock BB gun,” police said in a news release.

A Dixon man accused of trying to sexually assault a woman is fit to assist in his own defense, and to stand trial if it comes to that, an evaluation has determined.

The 33-year-old woman whose body was found Sunday in the 1600 block of South Galena Avenue was from Rochelle, and formerly of Ashton, police and SVM archives show.

An autopsy will be conducted Tuesday to determine the cause of death of a woman whose body was found Sunday morning on the ground in the 1600 block of South Galena Avenue.

An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death of a woman in her mid-thirties whose body was found outside, on the ground, in the 1600 block of South Galena Avenue, near Walmart, Sgt. Ryan Bivins said Sunday.

Should you find yourself in the middle of a heat emergency, there are several locations around the Sauk Valley – libraries, senior centers, government offices, even cop shops and hospitals – that serve as warming centers.

A Dixon man accused of trying to sexually assault a woman was ordered to undergo a mental fitness evaluation before his case proceeds.

A 57-year-old Dixon man who recorded his rape of a 13-year-old girl was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison.