Updated: 12:51 PM The 19th Annual Legislative Reception gives Rockford's Eiger Lab development project the center stage to local leaders and manufacturers.

Updated: 7:47 PM Vice President Dick Cheney may be a special guest speaker for a fundraising event taking place in DeKalb Saturday September 18, 2004.

Updated: 6:05 PM The terrorist attacks of September 11th brought out hundreds of local residents to give blood.

Updated: 11:33 AM A Rockford fitness center says yes to lifting weights in the wee hours, unveiling a new 24-hour schedule this week.

Updated: 9:21 PM The newest members of the Rockford Police Force were sworn in and a detective was awarded for saving a life on Wednesday afternoon.

Updated: 9:18 PM Nearly 400 sex offenders who are supposed to be registered in Illinois have fallen off the radar, but Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants to do something about it.

Updated: 2:20 PM Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he's pretty sure Jesus Christ hasn't endorsed anyone in Illinois' U.S. Senate race.

Updated: 4:09 PM EAU CLAIRE, Wis.- The Menard company says a state complaint that it's improperly disposing of pollutants is absolute rubbish.

Updated: 12:50 PM Telephone customers are being warned about a telephone scam being run by inmates inside the Cook County Jail.

Updated: 12:47 PM Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama Wednesday dismissed his opponent's claim that Jesus would not vote for Obama.

Updated: 9:18 AM It's been nearly two weeks since six students at Flinn Middle School were allegedly the target of racial profiling. Tuesday night, the Rockford School Board held a special meeting to discuss the matter and to determine what action, if any, should be pursued.

Updated: 8:36 AM You would never know by simply looking outside, but some of us here in Rockford have felt direct impacts from Hurricane Frances.

Updated: 6:56 PM Obama proposes health insurance plan for small businesses.

Updated: 4:03 PM The race for Rockford Mayor will not include Third Ward Alderman Doug Mark.

Updated: 12:48 PM Two armed robberies take place overnight in Loves Park.

Updated: 12:44 PM After On The Waterfront, a group of high school students take part in a midnight rendezvous for food.

Updated: 5:46 PM Rockford Mayor Doug Scott was hosting a "front porch" discussion to talk about the Kerry/Edwards plan to cut taxes, create jobs and lower health care taxes.

Updated: 1:28 PM Arsonists have to register in a new database.

Updated: 1:27 PM Efforts are underway to help Hurricane Frances victims.

Updated: 1:27 PM Organizers and law enforcement recap the happenings at the 2004 On The Waterfront, which brought close to 300,000 people to downtown Rockford.

Updated: 8:25 PM The Winnebago County Health Department spends the weekend working to keep the Waterfront safe one bite at a time.

Updated: 8:22 PM Rockford's fourth murder of the year may be gang related.

Updated: 2:48 PM Darrell Carlson left for Florida with his twin brother Dennis on August 16. The two Red Cross volunteers are now back home after helping thousands of Hurricane Charley victims.

Updated: 1:24 PM A former bookkeeper at a Rockford chain hotel was sentenced Friday to 24 months in federal prison for mail fraud and stealing from the hotel.

Updated: 1:23 PM A 12-year-old Chicago boy who stole cars for joyrides around his neighborhood will be removed from his mother's custody and confined to a residential juvenile facility.