Updated: 1:04 PM Gov. Rod Blagojevich is proposing a $396 million increase in education funding.

Updated: 1:02 PM Cold weather may have put a chill in housing starts.

Updated: 1:50 PM A new study says drivers over 65 are 25 percent more likely to get into auto accidents than their middle-aged counterparts and the very elderly even more so.

Updated: 12:51 PM Efforts are underway to keep a Rockford baseball tradition alive for many years to come.

Updated: 12:36 PM The White House is backing away from a rosy job forecast it issued just nine days ago.

Updated: 10:34 AM An early morning house fire in Rockford sends two residents to the hospital. Rockford Firefighters responded to the blaze at 928 S. Rockton just after 4 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Updated: 10:31 AM A 19-year-old male is dead after a car crash early this morning on the 2000 block of North Bell School Rd.

Updated: 10:34 PM As many as 600 new jobs coiuld be coming to the stateline.

Updated: 5:53 PM Two science programs and German eliminated at school.

Updated: 5:06 PM The recording industry isn't done cracking down on computer users who illegally distribute songs over the Internet.

Updated: 5:01 PM The Transportation for Illinois Coalition says Illinois is spending hundreds of millions of road dollars for non-road purposes at an alarming rate.

Updated: 4:43 PM A company in northern Illinois says it has commitments from farmers to grow enough dry field peas this spring to send 15,000 tons of the crop to Cuba.

Updated: 4:42 PM State health officials say the number of Illinois AIDS cases in 2003 dropped to the lowest total in six years.

Updated: 4:40 PM Illinois' lotto jackpot is $4 million.

Updated: 4:33 PM The Boys and Girls Club of Freeport gets a $38,000 grant.

Updated: 5:05 PM Those in charge of Rockford's airport are giving us another chance to get out of town for free.

Updated: 10:30 PM Making sure the elementary school is a part of Mount Morris' future.

Updated: 4:30 PM It's moving day at Jefferson Elementary School in Oregon to accommodate 350 students from Rahn Elementary School in Mount Morris who lost their school to a devastating fire on Thursday.

Updated: 4:06 PM Voters prepare to hit the polls.

Updated: 2:38 PM It's like Christmas in February!

Updated: 2:36 PM For those of us in Illinois, if your planning on making your vote count on the March 16 ballot, time is running out.

Updated: 2:33 PM The search for a new Rockford school superintendent is winding down.

Updated: 2:31 PM Monday was his first official day as the head of Rock Valley College.

Updated: 12:35 PM NASA's "Spirit" rover is making more tracks Monday.

Updated: 12:33 PM It goes from zero to 30 in 60 seconds.