Updated: 11:25 AM President Bush narrowly trails Democrat John Kerry among registered Wisconsin voters in a poll released as he prepared to visit the state next week.

Updated: 12:59 PM A Blackhawk Technical College instructor has resigned after a female student alleged he sexually molested her.

Updated: 11:20 AM The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority has approved a plan that would allow motorists to use their I-PASS transponders to breeze through tollbooths in nearly a dozen eastern states.

Updated: 1:01 PM The man who ran onto the field at a Chicago White Sox game with his son and attacked a coach has been charged with felony burglary after police say he broke into a car.

Updated: 4:41 PM From Beloit to Freeport, stateline hospitals are spending millions to expand and upgrade technology.

Updated: 2:36 PM Making off-road vehicles such as freight trains and coal-mining rigs pay tax on the fuel they use would put a big dent in those industries.

Updated: 2:31 PM A three-month Winnebago County program aimed at thinning a problematic herd of deer killed 300 deer in the Kishwaukee River corridor.

Updated: 12:36 PM A poll released Thursday shows Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has a slight lead over President Bush among Wisconsin voters.

Updated: 12:38 PM The state of Illinois is launching a campaign to encourage residents to check the online sex offender registry.

Updated: 12:39 PM Officials say a hacker tapped into as many as 200,000 temporary license plate records in an Illinois secretary of state computer database over the weekend.

Updated: 4:39 PM High gas prices fuel interest in hybrid vehicles.

Updated: 12:39 PM Lisa Lipin is on a mission to make sure children aren't choked by a popular toy.

Updated: 12:47 PM A memorial service is scheduled Saturday to remember the eight people who died when a tornado hit Utica last week.

Updated: 10:39 PM Applicants are needed.

Updated: 10:21 PM Cheering comes during a Rockford School Board meeting.

Updated: 3:44 PM Park district to pay up to $9 million to clean up landfill at sand park.

Updated: 1:19 PM Several Illinois cities are getting a hunk of cash from a high-speed Internet company that failed to pay its telecommunications taxes for four years.

Updated: 1:16 PM Careless cigarette smoking is being blamed for causing a fire at a church rectory in Rockford that killed the father of a Catholic priest.

Updated: 1:14 PM Physicians plan a rally at the state Capitol Wednesday to urge legislators to do something about medical malpractice reform.

Updated: 1:12 PM Chicago-based Exelon says its profit rose 12 percent in the first quarter, as a decline in revenue was offset by lower operating expenses.

Updated: 10:39 PM Some Rockford residents say they are the "Silenced Majority."

Updated: 6:42 PM A campaign to publicize the Illinois law requiring equal pay for men and women got a quick response.

Updated: 6:40 PM Warm, dry weather over the past week let Illinois farmers make fast progress planting this year's corn crop.

Updated: 6:38 PM Search efforts continue to recover the body of a man who died during a bar competition over the weekend.

Updated: 6:32 PM Fire damages stateline church.