Posted: 7:39 AM MADISON, Wis. -- The state Senate is scheduled to take up a bill that would expand definitions in state law of what constitutes illegal food stamp trafficking in Wisconsin.

Updated: 5:28 PM SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady says he's stepping down for personal reasons and not because of rifts within the party.

Posted: 7:26 AM SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A funeral procession is scheduled in Springfield for a Chicago firefighter who died in a central Illinois motorcycle crash.

Posted: 5:59 AM ROCKFORD (WIFR) - A home on Rockford's northwest side is considered a total loss after a fire early Tuesday morning.

Updated: 6:39 PM Boone County State’s Attorney Michelle Courier announced that on May 2, 2013, Salvador Garcia-Martinez, 27, of Rockford was sentenced to 14 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for four counts of Unlawful Delivery of a Controlled Substance within 1000 Feet of a Senior Citizen Housing Complex.

Updated: 6:35 PM Belvidere Police Chief Jan Noble announced the department will be conducting special roving patrols during the Cinco de Mayo holiday.

Updated: 6:37 PM FHA will combine current class offerings with classes focused on employability skills and additional specialized trainings to create the new Workforce Development Institute [WDI].

Updated: 11:48 AM In the evening hours on Thursday, Rockford Police made three significant weapons related arrests including two stemming from problems which began at a single location.

Updated: 5:25 PM A man who lives in the River-View neighborhood, was gunned down in his own driveway.

Updated: 10:28 PM A controversial proposed ordinance in Machesney Park passes through a committee and makes its way to the village board.

Updated: 10:55 PM An incredible story is unfolding in Cleveland, Ohio tonight. Three women who were reported missing a decade ago, have been found alive.

Posted: 8:26 PM Changes in the GED, or the General Educational Development, program are leading to some scams in Wisconsin.

Posted: 8:23 PM Illinois union leaders are encouraging lawmakers to support a pension reform proposal that they recently agreed on with the state's Senate president.

Updated: 10:28 PM The Senate has passed a bill that could end tax-free shopping on the Internet for many shoppers.

Updated: 5:21 PM Now to a story you asked about on our Facebook page. Neighbors in Loves Park are concerned about a growing number of dumpster divers digging through trash at homes and businesses.

Updated: 10:23 PM Major road work on a Rockford project years in the making finally begins this week.

Updated: 5:17 PM Last month's flood definitely caused a lot of problems around the Stateline. And now, health officials are worried about possible contamination to well water.

Updated: 5:20 PM New numbers out today show more than 100,000 people visited Beloit last year, bringing in tens of billions of dollars to the state and thousands of jobs to area.

Posted: 1:59 PM Operators returned Byron Generating Station Unit 2 to full power Saturday afternoon, marking the end of the unit’s 17th scheduled refueling outage that began April 8.

Posted: 1:56 PM A former northern Illinois comptroller sentenced this year for stealing nearly $54 million from her community has been transferred to a federal jail in downtown Chicago.

Posted: 11:53 AM Engelbert Humperdinck will make a stop at the Coronado Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. on November 5, 2013.

Posted: 8:51 AM GRANITE CITY, Ill. -- A teenager is jailed without bond after being accused in the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy in southwestern Illinois' Granite City.

Posted: 8:07 AM MADISON, Wis. -- Federal support has declined Wisconsin's two anti-terrorism centers linked to a national intelligence network.

Posted: 7:56 AM BELOIT, WI (WIFR) - A Beloit man has been arrested for driving while intoxicated after crashing into a Janesville Police Department vehicle.

Posted: 7:41 AM ROCKFORD (WIFR) - Rockford area average gas prices have risen almost four cents per gallon this week to $3.78 per gallon.