Posted: 9:34 AM Deaths on Illinois highways have dropped for a fourth straight year.

Updated: 10:01 AM Road improvements for the community could cost tax payers.

Updated: 9:59 AM Rockford Police are investigating two homicides.

Updated: 9:54 AM One wrong step and a winter acitivity can take a turn for the worse.

Updated: 9:51 AM Illinois State Police are making sure more than one person is clicked in.

Updated: 1:52 PM It's the most common sexually transmitted disease in America, yet it remains a silent epidemic.

Updated: 6:12 PM Rumors have been circulating over the past couple of weeks that Freeport based Newell Rubbermaid would relocate.

Updated: 2:41 PM UWATEC AG announced a recall of dive computers sold in 1995 and 1996 and Trak Inc. announced a recall of snowshoe bindings.

Updated: 9:41 AM As the U.S. makes its case against Iraq and more and more troops are deployed overseas, a local woman deals with having not one but two family members serving in the army.

Updated: 5:13 PM CUB says Nicor lied to the Illinois Commerce Commission, and used an accounting scheme to defraud consumers.

Updated: 3:12 PM Secretary of State Colin Powell says there's a "sinister" link between Iraq and al-Qaida.

Updated: 11:05 AM Illinois school districts could be penalized if any of their schools don't achieve performance goals under a new federal law.

Updated: 11:02 AM Attorney General Lisa Madigan is challenging some of former Gov. George Ryan's historic decisions.

Updated: 10:57 AM Jury selection for the trial of a Rockford man who's charged with killing a police officer is in its 19th day.

Updated: 4:32 PM Business owners are feeling a pinch after the passage of a new city budget.

Updated: 10:02 AM The Rockford City Council passes the mayor's budget proposal, hoping it will solve the city's $7.5 million budget shortfall.

Updated: 9:59 AM With the shuttle disaster still on many minds, schools changed their curriculum for the day. One teacher took a hands-on approach.

Updated: 5:00 PM City sticker sales start, and residents line up early.

Updated: 3:15 PM Cleaning up is an everyday chore, but cleaning up following a death is truly a unique situation.

Updated: 4:46 PM Many who made the decision to get tattoos do not have the same views now as they did then. But what options are out there?

Updated: 2:53 PM They figured that Social Security would help provide the financial rung they needed to last the rest of their life.

Updated: 1:35 PM Janice Voss's Aunt says her niece is shaken by the disaster.

Updated: 9:43 AM A local man pays tribute to the seven astronauts who lost their lives for our country.

Updated: 9:40 AM A local company makes parts for NASA, some of which were aboard the shuttle Columbia.

Updated: 9:42 AM The landing that never happened, as the space shuttle Columbia exploded in the sky.