Updated: 12:51 PM This is a crucial week in the Harlem School District.

Updated: 12:50 PM State and military officials unveil a new memorial to honor Illinois soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Updated: 12:53 PM Girl Scout Troop 377 tells of their evacuation and being near the eye of Hurricane Charley after a Caribbean cruise.

Updated: 9:33 PM Reserve soldiers get more protection under a new law.

Updated: 9:35 PM Rockford police investigate our third murder this year.

Updated: 9:30 PM Belvidere School District, which has seen enrollment grow by nearly 1,500 students since 1998-99, gets results of its first community phone survey.

Updated: 9:06 PM They're not getting married in church, rather another musical shrine, Ozzfest.

Updated: 7:11 PM No movement is made in the Harlem school district's contract negotiation sessions.

Updated: 4:26 PM Hundreds of volunteers have been busy priming the walls of 18 homes in preparation for Saturday's Metro Paint-A-Thon.

Updated: 12:53 PM A Rockford teenager has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in a plot to kill his dad.

Updated: 12:54 PM Winnebago County police say the shooting happened at 1009 Colonial in Machesney Park around 12:30 a.m. Friday morning.

Updated: 12:52 PM A Mallquist Park area neighborhood watch group is fighting back against crime in their streets, one walk at a time.

Updated: 6:16 PM The Winnebago County Forest Preserves are operated under the direction of the county board, but some members now want to let go.

Updated: 5:22 PM Rockford Public Library has a new library search catalog with new features and 21st century technology.

Posted: 5:04 PM Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich put the brakes on higher speed limits for trucks again Thursday.

Updated: 5:01 PM Winnebago County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen has appointed Susan “Sue” Mroz as the new Director of Regional Planning & Economic Development.

Updated: 1:46 PM Thursday morning an envelope with white powder was found at a downtown business on Main Street in Rockford.

Updated: 12:53 PM Rockford police are looking for three men who robbed the Sav-A-Day Laundromat early Thursday morning.

Updated: 12:51 PM Rochelle police seize 46 cannabis plants and around 12 ounces of loose cannabis while serving a search warrant at 514 First Avenue.

Updated: 12:50 PM A Freeport bank robbery has police on the lookout. It happened August 4 at the U.S. Bank on West Galena Avenue around 11:30 that morning.

Updated: 12:51 PM A federal judge has refused to toss out a criminal indictment against former Gov. George Ryan.

Updated: 12:49 PM Mayor Richard Daley says the Chicago Tribune requested City Hall building maintenance records in response to the city's criticism of falling concrete at Wrigley Field.

Updated: 12:48 PM Coats are making a comeback in the stateline a few months earlier this year.

Updated: 12:47 PM Better growing conditions are expected to give Illinois farmers a big boost in soybean production this year.

Updated: 12:46 PM A UW System administrator wants to recruit students from California.