First responders rescued 31 trapped workers from a collapsed tunnel in Los Angeles on July 9, officials said.

The weekend brings Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Alpine Kiwanis Brat Days and Friday Night Flix, along with fundraisers, ...

Led by Bentlee McShane, the Freeport Stix 12U Majors baseball team is on a roll. Find out who else is helping power this team ...

Four Illinois metropolitan statistical areas, including Rockford and Peoria, appear on WalletHub's latest list of Most & Least Educated Cities in America. For its study, WalletHub looked at 150 ...

Three Rockford men have been arrested on charges of first-degree murder stemming from a July 1 killing in the 500 block of Vincent Avenue. Winnebago County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a 911 ...

The average gas price in the United States last week was $3.16, making prices in the Midwest region about 3.6% lower than the nation's average. The average national gas price is lower than last ...

Boone County Coroner's Office Rebecca A. Wigget has identified two men killed in a June 28 plane crash near Capron. They were Scott M. Wentz, 60, of Grayslake and Kenneth C. Serzynski, 74, of ...

Winnebago County Court Judge Brendan Maher has sentenced a Rockford man to 165 years in prison for the 2021 killing of 38-year-old Latonya Whitfield and the shooting of a man at a local ...

Boone County Sheriff's Department deputies are investigating a fatal June 28 pedestrian crash in the area of U.S. Route 20, east of Shattuck Road. A 2002 Freightliner truck was travelling ...

A Rockford man has been arrested and charged in connection with a hit and run crash that injured a 15-year-old girl. Tyrone Cochran, 32, of Rockford was arrested July 1 on charges of failure to ...

Months after he was acquitted by a jury of misdemeanor battery charges, a Rockford Police Department officer accused of smashing a handcuffed man's head into a window has been fired. Officer Frank ...

Those who serve as interim chief are not allowed under Commission rules to apply for the permanent position of chief. Rockford's three-member Fire & Police Commission will begin a search for ...