Kathleen A. Schultz

OSF Life Flight, in business in Illinois since 1984, makes more than 1,800 flights a year. It has made more than 10 from the area since opening locally.

A Rock Falls man who recently entered into a plea agreement in 13 pending Whiteside County cases now is charged with appliance theft from a store in Dixon.

A 54-year-old Sterling woman is charged in Whiteside County court with financial exploitation of an elderly person and theft, which are punishable by four to 15 and three to seven years in prison, plus restitution, respectively.

The driver of a semitractor-trailer charged with improper passing in the death of a tractor driver in Rock Falls is scheduled to appear in Whiteside County traffic court in Sterling on May 13.

A former Savanna woman, who pleaded guilty March 1 to harassing a Black witness accusing her of hate crimes, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, April 26, after losing a bid to withdraw her guilty plea and proceed to a jury trial.

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.

An ambulance flight crew with OSF (Order of Saint Francis) Life Flight now is based and operational at Whiteside County Airport, 10950 Hoover Road in Rock Falls.

A Sterling felon convicted less than a year ago of threatening over social media to kill two Reagan Middle School students is facing new drug charges in Whiteside County.

A change-of-plea hearing for a 22-year-old Dixon man charged in the deaths of two Dixon 14-year-olds, which was scheduled to take place Tuesday, did not go off as planned because of some procedural issues.

The Sterling City Council on Monday allocated $370,000 more of its American Rescue Plan Act funds, and the biggest recipient so far has been the downtown Sterling Theater.

The traffic charges against the teen driver of a pickup truck that investigators said failed to stop at an intersection on March 28, resulting in the deaths of his three teen passengers, have been dismissed for now.

A warrant was issued and an additional felony charge was filed against Dixon man accused of cutting a woman and stabbing her dog.

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 Sterling man with a pending felony weapons case, who was convicted less than a year ago of threatening over social media to kill two Reagan Middle School students, was arrested Friday, April 5, this time accused of trying to sell meth to two Lee County deputies.

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