As promised at the beginning of the year, the Whiteside County Health Department began construction Monday on another expansion of the federally funded Community Health Clinic at 1300 W. Second St.
An Erie man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl is facing more child sex assault charges in Whiteside County.
It wasn’t a particularly long retirement for former 14th Judicial Circuit Judge Stanley B. Steines.
The year-end numbers are in, and they show that video gaming has remained fairly steady in Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties over the last two calendar years.
A 38-year-old Prophetstown man was sentenced in Whiteside County Court to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.
Less than three weeks after suffering a devastating loss, the Moore Tires family is in overdrive, hustling to open the new site in Rock Falls that eventually will have a 21-bay repair shop, a company headquarters and a warehouse.
A 73-year-old Prophetstown man who tried to burn down a future reproductive health clinic in Danville where abortions will be performed was sentenced Monday in federal court for attempted arson, and ordered to pay restitution.
A 31-year-old registered sex offender from rural Rock Falls is in Whiteside County jail, accused of beating a 6-year-old boy.
Police are investigating a shooting late Friday in the 200 block of Hudson Drive in Rock Falls in which a woman was shot in the lower leg, Chief Dave Pilgrim said in a news release Saturday morning.