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The Winnebago County Forest Preserve Commission again is poised to buy land from a former politician.

MACHESNEY PARK — The Harlem School Board may exhaust its education fund cash reserves this year.

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ROCKFORD — Anthony D’Agostino, the former CEO of Commercial Mortgage & Finance charged with operating his company as a Ponzi scheme, may testify Monday. The government rested its case Friday afternoon. The defense will begin Monday at the federal courthouse in Rockford.

Jason Kamp is suing the Stephenson County Sheriff’s Department, claiming that a dispatcher’s oversight is to blame for the death of his wife, Sarah.

Northern Illinois Pug Rescue & Adoption hosted Pug Jam on Saturday at Rock Cut State Park.

ROCKFORD — The final tally for new trees in Rockford this fall? Around 700.

ROCKFORD — After stunning job losses from 2008 to 2009 to 2010 — 21,000 in those 24 months, according to state estimates — the Rock River Valley appeared to be on the long road back in 2011 and 2012.

ROCKFORD — A Machesney Park woman wants to marry her longtime fiance, but a severe brain injury he suffered four years ago left him incapable of saying “I do.”

ROCKFORD — The City Council will look to erase a projected $2.5 million shortfall to next year’s annual budget. The council met Saturday morning to start putting a spending plan in place for the 2014-15 fiscal year.

Clear skies will continue until this morning when our next system will bring clouds back.