Updated: 3:31 PM Work of local student headed for National Museum

Updated: 12:55 PM With less than two weeks to raise $250,000, the Greater Rockford Aiport authority is now having to assure donors.

Updated: 4:11 PM Stateline economy sees tourism development.

Updated: 2:47 PM United Airlines is kicking off its biggest marketing campaign since 2001 in a push to lure back more business travelers.

Updated: 2:42 PM A man convicted in a double murder in Illinois asked the Nebraska Supreme Court today to dismiss charges against him in that state.

Updated: 2:40 PM Former Roman Catholic priest who fled the country has been caught.

Updated: 4:25 PM Training seminar aims to help local manufacturers, but many can't attend.

Updated: 2:26 PM The information you watch, hear and read is in for a big change.

Updated: 4:49 PM Dislocated workers return to school for degrees, but graduate to face tough job market.

Updated: 12:59 PM Gov. Rod Blagojevich says his controversial budget plan streamlines excessive government spending by consolidating state agencies and puts money where it matters: education, health care and public safety.

Updated: 12:58 PM Illinois lawmakers burn the midnight oil in order to approve several tax and fee proposals.

Updated: 7:46 PM The Bush administration dropped the federal terrorism alert level one step, to yellow.

Updated: 4:16 PM Rockford police get motorcycle patrol for first time in decades.

Updated: 1:32 PM Congratulations to Brenda Fauster, the 50K Giveaway winner!

Updated: 3:47 PM Fiery grandmother is fighting subdivision proposal.

Updated: 5:54 PM Loves Park entrepreneur hopes website will help area's unemployed.

Updated: 1:14 PM Rockford Alderman Dick Goral has been trying to raise the fine from $25-$500 for owners who don't keep their dogs on a leash. The ordinance is expected to be passed in two weeks.

Updated: 3:22 PM Airport hopes residents will give passenger service a much needed lift.

Updated: 10:10 AM A family is awakened by a car which slammed into their home after a two-car crash.

Updated: 10:04 AM Tour industry representatives from 16 countries pay a visit to Rockford to size it up for possible vacationers.

Updated: 10:10 PM A Pecatonica police chief heads into retirement.

Updated: 2:39 PM Illinois becomes the first to ban a dietary supplement.

Updated: 2:41 PM By land and by water police work to secure holiday safety.

Updated: 9:14 AM Winnebago County board votes to take $750 million from the $1.5 million already given to Machesney Parks Perryville Road development project and put it toward the Willowbrook road development project. A move that some feel is unfair.

Updated: 9:54 AM While her friends were just getting out of school, 15-year-old Jessica Bowron, home sick, was busy saving her father's life.