An 18-year-old Mount Morris man charged with attempted murder, and who one of his purported victims said has mental health issues, was released from jail Thursday with a list of conditions he must obey to remain free, including submitting to inpatient treatment.

A 4-year-old rural Monroe Center child died Thursday in a Rockford hospital after being attacked by a dog, the Ogle County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday on its website.

An Oregon bowhunter is facing multiple charges of poaching whitetail deer in Lee and Ogle counties, including one case in which he is accused of taking six deer from Lowell Park, a Dixon city park and nature preserve off-limits to hunters.

An Ogle County judge Friday ruled an Oregon man guilty of six counts of criminal sexual assault and one of battery of a minor girl after a bench trial in November.

The 33-year-old woman whose body was found Sunday in the 1600 block of South Galena Avenue was from Rochelle, and formerly of Ashton, police and SVM archives show.

The attorney general is prosecuting the owner of a Rockford firearms training company and a GOP candidate for state Senate who the AG says falsified information in Ogle County for clients applying for conceal-carry permits.

Ogle County law enforcement is searching for a former Chana man and IDOC parolee now also accused of taking part in a stabbing in Rochelle in early October.

UPDATE: An eastbound section of Interstate 88 was closed for five hours overnight after 20 tons of meat went sliding across the roadway as three semis and a passenger vehicle crashed around 10:30 p.m. in Rock Falls.

A former Ogle County deputy charged with DUI, leaving the scene of a crash and improper lane usage was sentenced to an added charge of reckless driving, given a year’s supervision and fined $945.