Updated: 12:50 PM Telephone customers are being warned about a telephone scam being run by inmates inside the Cook County Jail.

Updated: 12:47 PM Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama Wednesday dismissed his opponent's claim that Jesus would not vote for Obama.

Updated: 9:18 AM It's been nearly two weeks since six students at Flinn Middle School were allegedly the target of racial profiling. Tuesday night, the Rockford School Board held a special meeting to discuss the matter and to determine what action, if any, should be pursued.

Updated: 8:36 AM You would never know by simply looking outside, but some of us here in Rockford have felt direct impacts from Hurricane Frances.

Updated: 6:56 PM Obama proposes health insurance plan for small businesses.

Updated: 4:03 PM The race for Rockford Mayor will not include Third Ward Alderman Doug Mark.

Updated: 12:48 PM Two armed robberies take place overnight in Loves Park.

Updated: 12:44 PM After On The Waterfront, a group of high school students take part in a midnight rendezvous for food.

Updated: 5:46 PM Rockford Mayor Doug Scott was hosting a "front porch" discussion to talk about the Kerry/Edwards plan to cut taxes, create jobs and lower health care taxes.

Updated: 1:28 PM Arsonists have to register in a new database.

Updated: 1:27 PM Efforts are underway to help Hurricane Frances victims.

Updated: 1:27 PM Organizers and law enforcement recap the happenings at the 2004 On The Waterfront, which brought close to 300,000 people to downtown Rockford.

Updated: 8:25 PM The Winnebago County Health Department spends the weekend working to keep the Waterfront safe one bite at a time.

Updated: 8:22 PM Rockford's fourth murder of the year may be gang related.

Updated: 2:48 PM Darrell Carlson left for Florida with his twin brother Dennis on August 16. The two Red Cross volunteers are now back home after helping thousands of Hurricane Charley victims.

Updated: 1:24 PM A former bookkeeper at a Rockford chain hotel was sentenced Friday to 24 months in federal prison for mail fraud and stealing from the hotel.

Updated: 1:23 PM A 12-year-old Chicago boy who stole cars for joyrides around his neighborhood will be removed from his mother's custody and confined to a residential juvenile facility.

Updated: 1:21 PM School starts in the Harlem Consolidated School District on Friday, September 3, 2004.

Updated: 1:18 PM The Mallquist Park area Neighborhood Watch group discusses their progress, and work left to be done at their monthly meeting.

Updated: 9:22 PM A violent crime can take just minutes to commit, but could take weeks, months or years to solve.

Updated: 5:37 PM Students in the Harlem school district will finally head back to class Friday. The teacher strike that lasted nine days is now over

Updated: 8:31 PM Thousands of Harlem students will be back in class on Friday, and some rising seniors couldn't be more excited.

Updated: 5:16 PM State public health officials revealed Thursday that Illinois has recorded its first death this year from West Nile disease.

Updated: 4:35 PM An armed black male is still on the loose after attempting a bank robbery in Rockford Thursday morning.

Updated: 3:04 PM More than 1.5 million travelers are expected at Chicago's airports over the Labor Day weekend.