Updated: 10:30 PM A Davis Junction family lost everything in a fire last week, but stateline families are offering their holiday helping hand.

Updated: 9:05 PM Wednesday's brutal murder of 69-year-old Mary Ann Clibbery shocked the Loves Park Community.

Updated: 5:42 PM They say home is where the heart is, and for hundreds of our homeless neighbors, the Rockford Rescue Mission is their home for Christmas.

Updated: 1:11 PM Winnebago County sheriff's deputies are investigating an overnight robbery.

Updated: 1:09 PM After Trim-Rite leaders decided to look elsewhere to add a new slaughterhouse, Rockford area developers are asking the city to look at a new location to put the plant.

Updated: 1:05 PM Twenty-one-year-old Neil Petsche dies in combat in Iraq on Tuesday, the second time in as many months a stateline Marine gives the ultimate sacrifice in the Middle East.

Updated: 12:46 PM Fire rips through a home in south Rockford.

Posted: 5:40 PM A man's business is robbed for the second time in two months Wednesday morning.

Updated: 5:38 PM The blue light has burned out on North Main Street in Rockford, but a new light is starting to beam.

Updated: 5:24 PM Police call death "suspicious."

Updated: 7:35 PM Dozens of community members and police officers gathered Tuesday for baby Crystal's funeral services.

Updated: 5:24 PM The chilly temperatures outside are causing North Boone High School students to bundle up when they are inside.

Updated: 11:58 AM Two men are behind bars for allegedly robbing a Beloit Bank Monday.

Updated: 11:47 AM CHICAGO (AP) - Engineers for the Chicago Cubs have concluded that aging concrete, not a structural defect, caused three incidents of falling concrete at Wrigley Field this year.

Updated: 11:31 AM The New Year could bring some new money to the anti-violence group CeaseFire.

Updated: 11:05 PM After two years of tough cuts and very few frills Rockford's 2005 proposed city budget has some pleasant surprises.

Updated: 7:27 PM The town of Beloit could soon be home to a new methadone treatment center.

Updated: 5:53 PM Arrangements have been made for a baby who never got a chance at life.

Updated: 5:48 PM Six businesses in Winnebago County were busted for selling alcohol to minors.

Updated: 1:29 PM Happy holidays from your loved ones to those in the military!

Updated: 5:36 PM In just a few days we'll sit down to open our Christmas presents, and for some that special Christmas presents might be of the furry friend variety; a new dog or cat.

Updated: 3:09 PM Archway Cookies is recalling some holiday cookies that are sold nationwide.

Updated: 1:17 PM Barack Obama started the year as a little-known state senator competing in a crowded Democratic U.S. Senate primary.

Updated: 1:13 PM Chicago-based Exelon has agreed to acquire Public Service Enterprise Group for more than $12 billion in stock in a transaction that would create the nation's largest utility.

Updated: 1:10 PM At least $12 million worth of materials are being stored at prisons in Illinois and the governor's administration hasn't figured out what to do with the expensive items.