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ROCKFORD — James Pickett spent years committing crimes and floating through the criminal justice system before understanding that he suffered from mental illness.

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ROCKFORD — A small rubbish fire found Monday afternoon inside a vacant home in the 1100 block of Fourth Avenue has been deemed suspicious.

ROCKFORD — Her last radiation treatment is Oct. 17. Two days later, breast cancer survivor Trista Wilson plans to participate in the 3.5 mile Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk that starts at Martin Park in Loves Park.

CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn says if the federal government shutdown continues more state workers will be laid off whose paychecks come from federal funding.

CHICAGO — A state senator from Peoria is calling for the labeling of any food available for retail in Illinois that's been produced with genetically engineering organisms.

Thousands of civilian employees furloughed last week at Illinois military installations as part of the federal government shutdown are headed back to work.

STOCKHOLM — Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how key substances are transported within cells, a process involved in such important activities as brain cell communication and the release of insulin.

A warming trend will heat things up around here as early as Monday!  Highs will climb into the middle 70s.  A return to the lower 80s is forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.  The sun will be with us that entire time, but the threat for rain returns by the end of the week - See more at: http://addins.wrex.com/blogs/weather/2013/09/another-warm-up#sthash.R5lHGv3V.dpuf
A warming trend will heat things up around here as early as Monday!  Highs will climb into the middle 70s.  A return to the lower 80s is forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.  The sun will be with us that entire time, but the threat for rain returns by the end of the week. - See more at: http://addins.wrex.com/blogs/weather/2013/09/another-warm-up#sthash.R5lToday will feature plenty of sunshine with a high temperature in the low 72. The low wilToday will feature plenty of sunshine with a high temperature in the low 72. The low will be 48.

Sprinkles and clouds will kick off the morning. The clouds will gradually erode and the sun will mix in by afternoon. High in the lower 60s.

ROCKFORD — Freeway Rockford will complete an $800,000 expansion this winter.

Marie Myrick, 60, weighed 84 pounds in January last year, the result of heroin addiction that started in her 30s.

“I looked like I was going to die,” she told me Thursday of the drug that once made her feel like “nothing hurts. When you inject that, life seems so beautiful.”

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