The attorney for an Oregon man charged with recklessly firing a gun during an April 7 incident involving two utility workers told an Ogle County judge last week that her client fired the shots into the ground only to “scare off” the men because he thought they might be burglars.

A Creston woman who was sentenced in March to five years in prison for causing a 2022 fatal crash that claimed the life of an Addison man has filed motions to withdraw her guilty plea and have her sentence reconsidered.

Franklin Houston was found guilty of the Class 4 felony offense of injuring a police officer while resisting arrest and the misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct for an August 2025 incident at an Oregon school.

Ceczar P. Spann, 31, was found guilty March 9 of two counts of domestic battery for striking a member of his household in September 2025.

A Rochelle man has been charged with battering a pregnant woman after an April 13 incident in Rochelle

A Mt. Morris man faces aggravated battery charges in connection with an April 15 domestic incident.

A Rochelle man was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a warrant issued Feb. 17 for nine charges filed that day alleging he sexually assaulted, abused and exploited children.

Two people charged with breaking into a Stillman Valley home and battering one of its residents were released from custody Tuesday afternoon and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device while confined to their homes as their cases proceed through the court system.

Two people have been charged in connection with a residential break-in in Stillman Valley.