Updated: 12:51 PM Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry touted the importance of education and job training during a stop on Chicago's West Side Friday.

Updated: 12:38 PM A Janesville citizen's group says it may bring back a failed referendum to change the city government.

Updated: 11:29 PM The gypsy moth is spreading deeper into the stateline area and scientists are doing what they can to slow the spread of this tree killing insect.

Updated: 8:19 PM State awards grant money to clean up Brownfield in south Beloit.

Updated: 12:27 PM Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker says in his lifetime he can't remember facing a greater danger than the global war on terrorism.

Updated: 10:26 AM A Rockford pastor is robbed in his church. The armed robber approached the pastor while he was hosting a church group study.

Updated: 10:27 AM A Rockford woman is bound in her basement for nine hours. Rockford police say around 4 p.m. Wednesday the woman was going into the basement to do laundry at 1536 10th Street.

Updated: 10:12 AM A Lena man pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of an eight-month-old girl.

Updated: 10:09 AM A 12-year-old is under arrest, charged with starting two fires at the same Rockford business early Wednesday morning.

Updated: 4:44 PM Plans move ahead for Peotone airport and the impact could be felt in Rockford.

Updated: 12:55 PM Audrey Seiler's lawyer says the college student who allegedly faked her own abduction is getting "the best medical care her parents can provide."

Updated: 12:52 PM New research is raising questions about the value of having failing students repeat a grade.

Updated: 9:13 AM Two early morning fires at the same Rockford business are being called suspicious.

Updated: 9:07 AM The husband of a Chicago woman who was killed in a Mississippi train derailment says his wife was a religious person who was returning from a family funeral in New Orleans.

Updated: 9:09 AM A familiar nuisance is back.

Updated: 5:49 PM Buildings come tumbling down to make way for a new jail.

Updated: 2:12 PM Some of the richest soil on earth is being dredged from Peoria Lake to help establish a new park in Chicago.

Updated: 12:59 PM A Rockford woman is dead after a two car crash late Monday night. The accident happened just before 12 a.m. at the intersection of Auburn Street and Johnston Ave.

Updated: 6:32 PM Treatment plant powers growth in Poplar Grove.

Updated: 1:20 PM The Iowa County sheriff says a homicide victim was severely beaten with household objects and the assailant's hands.

Updated: 1:08 PM The Department of Defense says a 19-year-old Marine from northern Illinois has been killed in Iraq

Updated: 12:54 PM Death during a date.

Updated: 12:43 PM The passion is burning from the screen to our community.

Updated: 8:18 PM New cars bring new threats, so training is needed to help save lives.

Updated: 8:20 PM Power outage in downtown Rockford.