Updated: 6:41 PM The Rockford Police Department has announced that it will again be partnering with area agencies to sponsor the Youth and Junior Police Academies in Rockford.

Posted: 2:59 AM ST. LOUIS -- A coroner says the five people killed and six hospitalized after a van careened off of a southern Illinois freeway were men returning from a California religious event.

Updated: 6:38 PM Art on the Lawn is a juried show featuring fine arts and crafts in various media.

Posted: 1:25 AM DIXON (WIFR) - A Dixon man has been arrested after police found several illegal firearms and other homemade contraband.

Updated: 10:50 PM A Stateline Chrysler worker who won a discrimination suit against the auto company speaks out about his roller coaster legal battle; recently a court decision revoked his multi-million dollar award.

Updated: 10:51 PM More than 1,200 people packed into downtown Rockford for the city's annual marathon. Among the runners were two local athletes who crossed the finish line in Boston last month around the time of the bombing.

Updated: 10:33 PM Rock Valley College is the first community college in the state to offer an IOS App Development course. Students just wrapped up the spring semester and their walking away with much more than credit hours.

Updated: 10:43 PM A changing of the guard in Freeport. As the city swears in a new mayor for the first time in eight years.

Posted: 10:18 PM Winnebago teachers have a new two year contract and it was another close vote. The school board approved the contract Monday night by just a 4-to-3 margin.

Updated: 8:42 PM Machesney Park village leaders shot down a proposed chicken ordinance Monday night with a vote of five to two.

Updated: 4:58 PM A Rockford man admits he was involved in a 2008 murder. Today William Moore Jr. pled guilty to armed robbery and conspiracy to commit murder charges.

Updated: 8:36 AM UPDATE -- The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children.

Updated: 1:39 PM The future of the Rockford Public School District is in the hands of babies. Educators want to provide pre-school to all youngsters and the expansion will help provide kids with skills to achieve. In tonight’s “Classroom Victories” report, 23 News Education Reporter, Lauren Kravets explains how this plan is growing both in numbers of kids and in success.

Updated: 5:19 PM Tornado sirens sent many Stateliners scrambling to their basements last night, though we learned later that it was a false alarm.

Updated: 5:21 PM With more than 3,300 juvenile court cases, the juvenile courts were busting at the seams in two very small courtrooms in the public safety building. But now they have room to grow.

Updated: 5:47 PM Polo High School is mourning the loss of English Teacher, Sarah Kamp. 32-year-old Kamp died from injuries suffered in a crash in Stephenson County on Monday.

Posted: 1:46 PM As a result of a search warrant executed on May 17th, in the 600 block of Maple Avenue, four people have been arrested.

Updated: 11:52 AM Today, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation announced two awards to area public libraries to support literacy programs.

Updated: 11:58 AM A Roscoe man pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of transporting child pornography via the internet.

Updated: 10:54 AM RAVE has announced that The Henningsens will wrap of the 2013 Weekends in the Park Concert Series presented by Swedish American Health System at Davis Park on August 31, 2013.

Updated: 10:45 AM Rock Falls residents Gerald and Virginia Sharp are Lottery millionaires--and it happened in an instant.

Posted: 9:08 AM ROCKFORD (WIFR) - The pharmacy inside the Schnucks location on Rural Street in Rockford is closing.

Posted: 8:53 AM CHICAGO -- Transit officials say the first rush hour of Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line construction project is going smoothly.

Updated: 8:17 AM TOWN OF MENASHA, Wis. -- An armed robbery suspect is behind bars in Winnebago County following a police shooting outside a gas station.

Posted: 7:36 AM ROCKFORD (WIFR) - After severe storms hit the Stateline late Sunday night, over 150 people in the area are still without power.