Updated: 7:44 PM This may not be the right time to try to tap into a potential funding source for an alternative school.

Updated: 8:55 PM Carrier Sunship One is interested in Jamaica and other sun soaked destinations out of Rockford, which leaders anticipate flying in more local jobs.

Updated: 6:23 PM A popular place to take children is doing their best to make sure the children are not taken out by the wrong person.

Updated: 6:20 PM A car crash in Rock County claims the life of a Beloit man.

Updated: 6:18 PM Telecommunications top the list of consumer complaints in Illinois, and problems with cell phones make up most of those complaints.

Updated: 6:15 PM "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Updated: 12:41 PM Wisconsin is looking at how to stop people from crossing the stateline to get their hands on an ingredient in common cold medicine.

Updated: 12:39 PM It was a Sunday of scrubbing away the smoke in order to get tenants back to their "home, sweet home."

Updated: 10:44 PM Passengers arriving in the stateline from Cancun are welcomed back in the country by going through the Greater Rockford Airport's new customs system.

Updated: 3:31 PM The Roy Gayle baseball complex could be history if it’s sold by its Texas owners. Fundraisers are working to prevent that from happening.

Updated: 3:28 PM Saturday was spent looking at ways to scrimp and save over the next four years.

Updated: 3:26 PM Barber Colman redevelopment in 2006 state budget.

Updated: 8:06 PM The U.S. Catholic Church releases its annual child protection audit. It's a yearly report card on how churches are dealing with child abuse policies. Here’s what the audit says about the Rockford Diocese.

Updated: 5:36 PM The Illinois Newborn Infant Protection Act has saved the lives of 12 babies, but the law could soon expire.

Updated: 4:36 PM Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately.

Updated: 3:47 PM General Motors says it will not operate its sport-utility manufacturing plant in Janesville for the seventh week this year.

Updated: 9:21 PM The governor proposed a budget increase of less than one percent to the state’s education fund.

Updated: 12:53 PM A Spanish automotive supply company says it plans to hire 150 employees when it opens an assembly plant near the Daimler-Chrysler plant in Belvidere.

Updated: 2:57 PM A fire on Rockford's east side claimed the life of an elderly man.

Updated: 9:45 PM A new housing development in Cherry Valley will feature a private nature preserve on the Kishwaukee River.

Updated: 8:44 PM Some local lawmakers are angry about the priorities in spending for Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s 2006 budget proposal.

Updated: 8:41 PM It's a place where the campaigning never stops and where voters can get instant information on candidates and policies.

Updated: 8:49 PM Some neighborhoods on Freeport's east side are under water with flooding on the Pecatonica River.

Updated: 1:31 PM A 22-year-old returns from a year in Iraq serving and refueling helicopters north of Baghdad.

Updated: 1:26 PM We have some pretty believable storytellers in Rockford trying to make a quick buck.