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SPRINGFIELD — Some members of the legislature’s pension reform conference committee said today they’re continuing to make progress on a reform plan, although slowly.

ROCKFORD — Savvy police detectives arrested the teenaged brother of a Latin King gang member and deceived him to get a confession to the May 2010 murder of 16-year-old East High School student DeMarkis Robinson, a rival gangster.

Dorothy Todd is remembered as a charming woman who was active in community affairs during her time in Rockford and a lover of horses.

ROCKFORD — A Freeport man was sentenced today in federal court for wire fraud.

BELVIDERE — High school students’ academic performance will measured differently in Belvidere this year.

INSIDE: Why semesters?

An update today from the Winnebago County Health Department said officials have 12 laboratory confirmed cases and four probable cases.

President Obama said today in Galesburg: "We’ve got more than 100,000 bridges that are old enough to qualify for Medicare." Well 46 of them, and maybe more, are in Winnebago County.

ROCKFORD – Savvy police detectives arrested the innocent teenaged brother of a Latin King gang member and tricked him into confessing to the murder of 16-year-old East High School student DeMarkis Robinson, a rival gangster.

GALESBURG — President Barack Obama said today that Washington has "taken its eye off the ball" as he pledged a stronger second-term commitment to tackling the economic woes that strain many in the middle class nearly five years after the country plunged into a recession.

BELVIDERE — SwedishAmerican Hospital may add as many as five emergency treatment rooms to its Belvidere facility to keep up with the growing population.