Whiteside

A Sterling pedestrian is dead and an officer injured after a drunken driver struck both men on the First Avenue Bridge just south of Wallace Street Sunday morning, police said.

4-H to offer creative writing club for Carroll, Whiteside and Lee counties.

After a five-year absence from the bench, former Whiteside County Circuit Court Judge John L. Hauptman is coming out of retirement to take a position with the Third District Appellate Court.

After a five-year absence from the bench, former Whiteside County Circuit Court Judge John L. Hauptman is coming out of retirement to take a position with the Third District Appellate Court.

A State Police trooper “inadvertently” shot a Whiteside County deputy in the left foot Monday during an attempt to locate two suspects, Sheriff John Booker said in a news release this morning.

IDOT advises of its bridge repair projects in Whiteside, Carroll counties

Former Sterling attorney Michael A. Lancaster, who is charged with raping two clients in his office in 2019, now is being sued by one of them for malpractice, while his law firm and former partner are being sued for negligence.

Sterling graduate receives scholarship from endowment that provides substantial scholarships for the graduate education of students in arts, humanities and social sciences.