Charlene Bielema

Here is a list of property transfers for Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties for Jan. 6-12.

A Sterling man has been sentenced to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty in Lee County to felony criminal sexual assault using force.

Originally opened in 1987, Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream in Morrison is a franchised location owned and operated by Lynn and Kevin Kenady.

Brandon S. Miller pleaded guilty to threatening a conservation police officer in the Ogle County case. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful use of game, multiple violations, in Lee County.

The Biden-Harris Administration has announced a group discharge for 261,000 borrowers with loans from Ashford University. Largely an online institution, Ashford had a campus in Clinton, Iowa, that was formerly the home of Mount St. Clare College.

Blessing J. Aoci was abducted around 6 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, near the intersection of 14th 1/2 Street and 13th Avenue, Rock Island, according to Rock Island police.

Dixon City firefighters were dispatched at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday to 841 Sproul St. for a reported light on fire.

Lillian Reaver plans on going to college for biomedical engineering.

Law enforcement gives all-clear after 3 1/2 hours of searching by bomb-detecting canines and bomb squad personnel found no incendiary or explosive device

One of the men is accused of striking the victim with a revolver

Addison Pertell plans to attend a 4-year university to major in nursing while also playing basketball.

Here is a list of property transfers for Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties for Dec. 30 to Jan. 5.

Li Arellano now represents the 37th District, which is composed of all or parts of Bureau, DeKalb, Henry, La Salle, Lee, Marshall, Ogle, Peoria, Rock Island, Stark, Whiteside and Woodford counties.

All evidence at this time indicates this to be an isolated incident in which a man died as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a Sterling Police Department news release.

A doctor at OSF Saint Katharine Medical Center in Dixon has been promoted to the rank of colonel in the Illinois National Guard.