Posted: 8:53 AM ST. LOUIS -- A coroner says a former prosecutor who died at the cabin of a fellow southwestern Illinois judge now under federal investigation succumbed to a cocaine overdose.

Posted: 8:36 AM ILLINOIS (WIFR) - Illinois emergency responders are reminding families to keep safety in mind when celebrating this Memorial Day weekend.

Posted: 7:25 AM CHICAGO -- Chicago Public Schools officials have suspended an employee of a high school on the city's South Side after seeing a video that appears to show the employee shoving a 16-year-old student down a flight of stairs.

Posted: 6:46 AM ALLOUEZ, Wis. -- More than 100 people have been displaced by an apartment fire in the Green Bay area.

Posted: 4:15 AM MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin System would miss out on a $181 million spending increase in the upcoming budget, and also lose an additional $2.5 million under a bill before the Legislature's budget-writing committee.

Updated: 1:00 AM The Highland Community College 50th anniversary commencement exercise was held outdoors at 10 a.m., on Saturday, May 18, 2013, on the campus plaza.

Updated: 9:58 PM For the second year, Lincoln Middle School has been awarded a grant of $22,000 from the Crull Family Trust Scholarship for Forensics and Sciences Fund of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois.

Updated: 9:54 PM Ogle County State's Attorney Mike Rock announced that on May 20, 2013, Adrian Hartness, age 24, of Oregon, pled guilty to the offense of Burglary, a Class 2 Felony, and was sentenced to 4 Years in the Department of Corrections.

Posted: 1:22 AM Some possible good news for the Rockford’s workforce. It turns out he city’s unemployment rate was under 10% this April ending the month at 9.9%.

Posted: 1:19 AM There's an even bigger push tonight to keep people safe on the roads. The Illinois legislature wants to ban cell phones from drivers statewide. It's already a law in some cities like Chicago.

Posted: 11:39 PM A 16-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Thursday night after being shot.

Updated: 11:41 PM Washington state authorities say no fatalities in Interstate 5 bridge collapse.

Posted: 10:53 PM The jury in Jodi Arias' murder trial has been dismissed after failing to decide if she should receive the death penalty.

Updated: 11:24 PM President Barack Obama is outlining a narrowing terror threat that still imperils the nation but is now defined by smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of al-Qaida.

Posted: 10:42 PM On May 23rd, 2013 around 3:00 PM, Rockford Police Detectives arrested Jeffrey Lawson for Criminal Sexual Assault of a child.

Posted: 9:04 PM Cherry Valley Public Library closed due to water main break.

Updated: 8:46 PM A big development in the Marie’s Pizza murder trial, a jury has found Lamar Coates guilty of felony murder.

Posted: 5:49 PM Today the city of Rockford held the official groundbreaking for the major West State Street reconstruction.

Posted: 5:27 PM The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.

Updated: 5:26 PM Northern Illinois University's new president made a stop in the Stateline today to chat with business leaders about some of the ways their organizations can work together.

Updated: 1:41 PM We sometimes hear complaints about our local school districts, but it takes a community effort to make sure students succeed. And for District 205, Alignment Rockford is one of those voices.

Updated: 4:44 PM A majority of the conditions which resulted in the implementation of the No Wake order on the Rock River north of the Auburn Street Bridge in Winnebago County have subsided.

Updated: 11:25 PM The Senate has approved a plan that would ban the use of cell phones while driving.

Posted: 3:51 PM Winnebago County State’s Attorney Joe Bruscato announced today that 33-year-old Jamie Dock was sentenced today to 375 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections in front of Judge McGraw after being found guilty after a jury trial on July 11, 2012 of charges of Armed Robbery (2 Counts) and Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault (4 Counts).

Posted: 3:44 PM Habitat for Humanity Boone County proudly broke ground on their fifth house at 707 Chicago Street on May 22nd.