Updated: 2:58 PM After only nine hours of deliberating they found William Buck guilty of first-degree murder.

Updated: 4:58 PM Rockford residents spent much of the day digging out from the stateline's biggest storm of this year.

Updated: 10:01 AM In November, the Rochelle Waste Department, RWD, submitted an application to expand their current location.

Updated: 5:55 PM Standoff at Rockford hotel ends peacefully, one man arrested.

Updated: 11:27 AM Attorney General John Ashcroft said arrest could destabilize terrorist networks worldwide.

Updated: 10:22 AM A local unit spends their last night at home with family and friends.

Updated: 4:50 PM It's only March 3, but already Illinois has record-high gas prices for March.

Updated: 10:02 AM With the threat of war with Iraq, the reality is setting in for many families that their loved ones will be gone.

Updated: 9:59 AM The ins and outs of what is real and what is fiction on a popular CBS drama and where local cases stand.

Updated: 10:04 AM Manufacturing jobs move out of the area in order to consolidate their company.

Updated: 4:27 PM The latest proposal to balance the Rockford School District's budget calls for the closure of six elementary schools.

Updated: 11:01 AM The national terror alert will be lowered from orange to yellow, administration officials said Thursday, suggesting the threat of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil has eased somewhat.

Updated: 9:46 AM The Rockford Housing Authority has some tough times ahead.

Updated: 4:59 PM New Residence Assistance Center helps inmates transition back into the community.

Updated: 3:39 PM The Bush administration on Wednesday dismissed a compromise proposal by Canada to set an end-of-March deadline for Iraq to comply with U.N. disarmament demands.

Updated: 9:47 AM NASA said that it had recovered a videotape showing four of the Columbia astronauts in the last minutes of their flight just before things went awry.

Updated: 4:23 PM Doctors across Illinois prepare for a one-day strike to protest the cost of skyrocketing malpractice insurance premiums.

Updated: 4:11 PM Consumer confidence in the economy plunged to its lowest level in nearly 10 years in February as Americans grew bleak about jobs and oil prices in the face of war with Iraq.

Updated: 2:46 PM Pipe bomb suspect Luke Helder has been returned to Minnesota from Iowa and being held in the Federal Medical Center in Rochester.

Updated: 9:47 AM As talk about war and terrorist attacks becomes more frequent, it gets harder to protect our children from hearing this potentially frightening information.

Updated: 9:44 AM Suggestions turn into two different plans for what should be included in Rockford's dinosaur exhibit.

Updated: 10:03 AM Rockford fire inspectors work long hours over the weekend to make sure local bars and nightclubs are safe.

Updated: 10:01 AM The Rockford Police Department is making changes.

Updated: 6:34 PM The recent nightclub tragedies have local club owners taking a closer look at safety precautions.

Updated: 4:19 PM A rash of fresh graffiti spurs city leaders to take action.