Payton Felix

A judge will hear arguments May 15 on a defense motion asking for a more detailed explanation of the charges filed against a former Carroll County sheriff’s deputy in connection with the 2024 death of a Mount Carroll teen.

The plaintiff’s attorney in a lawsuit against the city of Dixon continued making arguments Friday, Feb. 20, that the court should order the city to pay its attorney fees.

The Rock Falls City Council will vote March 3 on an ordinance that would increase annual liquor license fees for bars in which primary revenue comes from gaming machines.

Rock Falls establishments with gaming machines, and the machines’ owners, will be required to pay more in gaming machine fees to the city starting this year.

The ordinance bans mobile homes that were manufactured more than 20 years old from the parks within city limits. It applies to all those homes even if they’ve been renovated, but does not apply to homes already within a city park, according to the ordinance.

Sauk Valley Community College‘s police academy, now hosting its 10th class, is not only resolving the issue of lengthy recruitment timelines, local police chiefs say, but new officers say they are able to build stronger ties with the communities they will serve.

A Sauk Valley community action group flipped the script Saturday afternoon by focusing on love instead of anger at its rally against the Trump administration. About 100 people gathered outside the Grandon Civic Center in Sterling.

Dixon’s Preston-Schilling Funeral Home will nearly double its space when it moves to a former daycare building off Franklin Grove Road in Dixon. The move is expected by the end of February or early March.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the cause of a single-vehicle crash that injured an Amboy man Thursday.

“It was a big year of change,” said OSF HealthCare Saint Katharine President Jackie Kernan when reflecting on the Catholic health system's Jan. 1, 2025, takeover of KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Owners Dave and Tracy DeVries have added Papa’s Pizza and The Classroom Bakery to The Classroom in Nelson.

An Ogle County judge will hear arguments in March for motions filed by a Chicago woman’s attorneys seeking to dismiss charges of falsely reporting a shooting near Rochelle in May 2025. The motions argue the charges violate her right to free speech.

Heath A. Knipple, 46, was charged July 2 with six counts of Class X felony dissemination of images of child sex abuse, with each count listing the victim as younger than 13.

A Lee County Sheriff’s Office squad car was involved in a two-vehicle collision Thursday afternoon on South Galena Avenue in Dixon.

A Lee County judge sentenced a Will County woman to 2 years of conditional discharge in connection with the December 2023 hit-and-run death of a Rock Falls pedestrian near Walton.