Updated: 12:49 PM The physical fitness of our students is a statewide concern.

Updated: 8:12 PM A Rockford man convicted of killing his six children as they slept won't be getting out on parole.

Updated: 1:19 PM Last month, members of the 333rd Military Police Unit based in Freeport were preparing to come home.

Updated: 1:20 PM Wisconsin will increase testing for Mad Cow disease.

Updated: 1:21 PM City council members in the north-central Illinois town of Utica have delayed a vote on a proposal to change the path of Illinois Route 178.

Updated: 1:22 PM A 21-year-old Rockford woman is dead and a man is fighting for his life after a Wednesday early morning car crash in Boone County.

Updated: 1:23 PM Rockford Police are looking for an armed man who broke into a home and stabbed a resident.

Updated: 5:20 PM Rising cost of cheese is cutting into pizza profits.

Updated: 3:36 PM Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich thinks large corporations should publicize what they pay in state taxes and the loopholes they use to avoid them.

Updated: 12:44 PM A National Guardsman who says he was fired from his job as a Rockton police officer after he was called up for active duty plans to sue the northern Illinois village.

Updated: 10:16 AM The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing has grown to $13 million.

Updated: 10:13 AM An Illinois judge who heads a Roman Catholic lay review board has accused U.S. Catholic bishops of trying to block more audits concerning the national priest sex abuse scandal.

Updated: 10:10 AM For the first time in its 42-year history, Illinois' governor didn't attend the Illinois Governor's Prayer Breakfast.

Updated: 8:24 AM One person is dead and another is airlifted to a hospital after an early morning car crash on I-90.

Updated: 10:11 PM It's the start of a new era as the Rockford School District new Superintendent Dr. Dennis Thompson is in charge.

Updated: 5:02 PM Cracking down on gangs is the target of new legislation.

Updated: 2:24 PM A former Orfordville police chief is appealing his firing.

Updated: 2:21 PM State lawmakers say using gambling expansion to solve growing budget woes is a realistic idea as the spring legislative session winds down.

Updated: 2:19 PM The Illinois Commerce Commission is meeting with officials from the state's electricity providers Tuesday to discuss issues of demand and reliability.

Updated: 2:15 PM The number of traffic deaths in Wisconsin dropped in April.

Updated: 8:40 PM He's on the ballot in November, but is already sitting in the seat he hopes to keep.

Updated: 8:23 PM Warm, dry weather over most of Illinois in the past week has allowed the state's farmers to move ahead quickly with planting the soybean crop.

Updated: 2:29 PM Illinois military police officers who returned home from Iraq last month are shocked at allegations that other American MPs tortured Iraqi prisoners.

Updated: 12:43 PM Rockford Police make an arrest in connection with Sunday night's fire bombing.

Updated: 11:58 AM Wisconsin's gas price has reached a record-high level.