Posted: 10:50 PM The Illinois Department of Public Health gave Victoria Malley the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Posted: 10:27 PM It's going to be another busy Memorial Day weekend on the nation's highways.

Posted: 10:24 PM U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and Senior Law Enforcement Officers with the Department of Justice are calling a closed door meeting this Tuesday with area police departments.

Posted: 10:21 PM House and Senate Democrats have agreed on a proposed Illinois budget that would keep education funding at the same level and increase human services spending.

Posted: 10:20 PM Virtual charter schools in Illinois are being placed on temporary hold.

Updated: 10:51 PM Boylan's Class of 2013 packed into the schools gym this afternoon for their commencement ceremony.

Posted: 10:09 PM Construction at the future Auburn and Main round-a-bout is forcing some drivers to cut through Hancock Street and Camp Avenue.

Updated: 10:58 PM Welfare Fraud investigation leads to 16 felony arrest warrants.

Updated: 10:52 PM Not every student chooses the same path after they graduate high school, some go to a traditional college, others may select a career right out of school. And a local trades council is helping students with the immediate career approach.

Posted: 1:07 PM Rockford Police Searching for Missing Elderly Man.

Updated: 5:21 PM The Illinois House has approved a plan to allow qualified gun owners to carry their weapons in public.

Posted: 12:38 PM Rockton Police made an arrest in the armed robbery reported last Friday where a man said he was robbed by three teens while changing a tire on Illinois Route 2 in Rockton.

Posted: 12:18 PM A local call center wants to hire 80 new people.

Posted: 11:44 AM The Illinois House has begun debating a compromise plan on concealed weapons that has generated the opposition of Gov. Pat Quinn.

Updated: 11:00 AM Rockford Police arrest three on drug charges.

Posted: 8:53 AM ST. LOUIS -- A coroner says a former prosecutor who died at the cabin of a fellow southwestern Illinois judge now under federal investigation succumbed to a cocaine overdose.

Posted: 8:36 AM ILLINOIS (WIFR) - Illinois emergency responders are reminding families to keep safety in mind when celebrating this Memorial Day weekend.

Posted: 7:25 AM CHICAGO -- Chicago Public Schools officials have suspended an employee of a high school on the city's South Side after seeing a video that appears to show the employee shoving a 16-year-old student down a flight of stairs.

Posted: 6:46 AM ALLOUEZ, Wis. -- More than 100 people have been displaced by an apartment fire in the Green Bay area.

Posted: 4:15 AM MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin System would miss out on a $181 million spending increase in the upcoming budget, and also lose an additional $2.5 million under a bill before the Legislature's budget-writing committee.

Updated: 1:00 AM The Highland Community College 50th anniversary commencement exercise was held outdoors at 10 a.m., on Saturday, May 18, 2013, on the campus plaza.

Updated: 9:58 PM For the second year, Lincoln Middle School has been awarded a grant of $22,000 from the Crull Family Trust Scholarship for Forensics and Sciences Fund of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois.

Updated: 9:54 PM Ogle County State's Attorney Mike Rock announced that on May 20, 2013, Adrian Hartness, age 24, of Oregon, pled guilty to the offense of Burglary, a Class 2 Felony, and was sentenced to 4 Years in the Department of Corrections.

Posted: 1:22 AM Some possible good news for the Rockford’s workforce. It turns out he city’s unemployment rate was under 10% this April ending the month at 9.9%.

Posted: 1:19 AM There's an even bigger push tonight to keep people safe on the roads. The Illinois legislature wants to ban cell phones from drivers statewide. It's already a law in some cities like Chicago.