Updated: 1:31 PM Finding the right person to take over the Rockford School District.

Updated: 6:54 PM Students at Boylan High School are mourning the loss of freshmen Kari Lotko. Lotko died in an auto accident on Spring Creek and Highcrest Road Thursday night while heading to soccer practice.

Updated: 3:48 PM Nancy Reagan commemorated her husband's birthday by laying a cornerstone at the Reagan Library Friday.

Updated: 3:49 PM The economy will certainly be a hot issue in the upcoming March primary elections.

Updated: 3:38 PM It still has health experts puzzled.

Updated: 3:00 PM Sharpshooters plan to cull the deer population in Boone County as part of attempts to control a fatal deer disease in northern Illinois.

Updated: 3:02 PM Several of the Democrats running for Senate in Illinois say they'd support legislation allowing sales taxes on retail transactions over the Internet.

Updated: 2:57 PM GM says it needs to repair potential problems with the ignition switch that may cause a fire.

Updated: 5:23 PM Funding restored for Illinois home heating program.

Updated: 5:08 PM Thousands of Senate employees are returning to their offices as the first of three buildings shut down by the ricin incident reopens.

Updated: 4:31 PM "Opportunity" has taken its maiden martian voyage.

Updated: 4:21 PM A new report says diversity among the nation's health care providers isn't growing along with that of the population as a whole.

Updated: 4:14 PM He was a 14-year veteran of the Riverdale Police Department and the father of two teenage daughters.

Updated: 4:12 PM The hearing, which was scheduled for next week, has been cancelled.

Updated: 4:05 PM Damage is estimated at $40,000.

Updated: 5:42 PM Gov. Rod Blagojevich says Illinois should keep its law banning same-sex marriages.

Updated: 5:18 PM Forreston High student dies in crash, two others injured.

Updated: 4:37 PM Foreign policy, abortion and education were hot topics.

Updated: 4:35 PM A memorial has been set for this Saturday to honor Rockford radio host Chris Bowman.

Updated: 4:40 PM Rockford firefighters say a space heater is to blame for a house fire on the city's northwest side.

Updated: 2:33 PM There's now more evidence to confirm that the powder found in a senate office this week does contain a deadly poison.

Updated: 2:02 PM The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency says the amount of household hazardous waste brought into long-term collection sites doubled last year.

Updated: 1:27 PM The commission that's looking into the 9/11 attacks will apparently have more time to do its job.

Updated: 4:26 PM Community remembers WNTA's Chris Bowman.

Updated: 3:50 PM Illinois government has done such a poor job of tracking its property that the official record doesn't even list Abraham Lincoln's tomb.