Updated: 4:11 PM Scott Peterson has been found guilty of first and second-degree murder.

Updated: 12:43 PM A Chicago teacher is accused of paying students to have sex with her.

Updated: 9:00 PM J.L. Clark, known worldwide for making tin and plastic seals on products from Oreo cookies to Ouch! bubble gum, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in business.

Updated: 2:45 PM David's funeral will be Saturday morning at Heartland Church.

Updated: 1:08 PM Two separate shootings took place in Rockford Wednesday night.

Updated: 1:07 PM A 20-year-old from southern Illinois has become the fourth Marine from the state to die while serving in Iraq in less than a week.

Updated: 1:04 PM Beautiful fall leaves blanket the ground and this year the Winnebago County Highway Department is helping us clean up our property.

Updated: 8:40 PM Local veterans from wars past and present are honored in a packed house on the eve of Veterans Day.

Updated: 8:28 PM In weeks, the Belvidere City Council will decide whether to designate a 150-year-old neighborhood as a historical district.

Updated: 9:48 PM It's estimated that hundreds of parents in the stateline are not getting the child support payments they're owed.

Updated: 5:10 PM One French philosopher once said, "Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world, the clock and the cat."

Updated: 1:07 PM Bush has accepted John Ashcroft's resignation as the second presidential term begins.

Updated: 1:03 PM One hundred eighty six janitors in the Rockford school district see who else could come in and take over their jobs.

Updated: 5:48 PM Every day we see images of war, the violence, the death, the heartache; but Tuesday the city of Belvidere is staring the harsh realities of war right in the face as they mourn the death of one of their own, Marine Reservist Branden Ramey.

Updated: 4:47 PM The Illinois Senate Thursday rejected the governor's veto and once again passed legislation offering legal protection for homeowners who shoot intruders.

Updated: 2:17 PM Tuesday is National Young Readers Day, and young readers at Christian Life Elementary School got much more than they bargained for Tuesday morning.

Updated: 2:06 PM Two Illinois Marines have died in separate incidents in Iraq.

Updated: 12:57 PM The Rockford City Council looks at where potential casino revenues should go.

Updated: 1:01 PM Rockford public school custodians get ready to hear about their future in the district.

Updated: 5:53 PM Exhibiting the right of freedom of speech can often be a slippery slope, given the current nature of our country in the post 9/11 era.

Updated: 4:07 PM A survey shows residential natural gas prices are a third higher than they were a year ago in Wisconsin.

Updated: 4:04 PM Interim State School Superintendent Randy Dunn says he's trying to build "a more cost-efficient agency."

Updated: 1:03 PM On the heels of the fall veto session for Illinois lawmakers, those on both sides of the casino issue debate the likely discussions to bring a casino to Rockford.

Updated: 11:33 AM Police in the northern Illinois community of Freeport are investigating its first homicide of the year.

Updated: 1:01 PM Freeport police investigate their first murder in years.