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14/08/2024

Kansas basktball star AJ Storr and Amber Storr, the No. 12 scorer in Illinois history, hold youth clinic in Rockford. Mom moves back to town to teach.

14/08/2024

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. The…

14/08/2024

PHOENIX (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, “misspoke” in a 2018 video about “weapons of war that I carried in war,” a Harris-Walz campaign spokespers…

14/08/2024

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki died Friday from lung cancer. Neal Mohan is the current CEO and has been since she stepped down last year.

14/08/2024

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada said he was ambushed and kidnapped when he thought he was going to meet the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa, then wa…

14/08/2024

Investigators haven't given an explanation so far, saying it is too early to determine the cause of the crash.

14/08/2024

Rick Nielsen headlines his own landmark guitar arrival at Hard Rock Casino in Rockford

By Kevin Haas Rock River Current Get our free e-newsletter ROCKFORD — The arrival of a nearly 63-foot replica of one of Rick Nielsen’s signature checkerboard guitars was the focus of a crew of reporters, photographers and

14/08/2024

A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment …

14/08/2024

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical wave that could become a tropical depression and possibly a tropical storm named Ernesto.

14/08/2024

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dies at 56, her husband Dennis Troper announced.

14/08/2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A worker at a federal prison in California has died and investigators are examining whether he was exposed to fentanyl shortly before his death, three people familiar with the mat…

14/08/2024

The Perseids are active from July to September, but each year the dazzling meteor shower reliably peaks in August. This weekend is the time to see it.

14/08/2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two others has thrown the cases into disarray and surfaced tensio…

14/08/2024

Half of credit cardholders say they carry over card balances monthly, a Bankrate survey finds. That's the highest since the COVID pandemic's outset.

14/08/2024

Here's a look at how monthly real estate listings changed in Boone County last month.

14/08/2024

Here's a look at how monthly real estate listings changed in Winnebago County last month.

14/08/2024

This week in editorial cartoons from Joe Heller

14/08/2024

If enough people choose to choose good people, we might have some hope of healing our fractured, dysfunctional society, writes Rockford's Mark Holmboe

14/08/2024

Non-stick frying pans that are convenient and easy to clean may be causing health problems for some. Here's what you need to know about Teflon Flu.

14/08/2024

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris promised Saturday to work to eliminate taxes on tips paid to restaurant and other service industry employees, echoing a pledge that her opponent, Repub…

14/08/2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Mass Deportation Now!” declared the signs at the Republican National Convention, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump’s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest depor…

14/08/2024

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The grueling basic training for fledgling cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, known as swab summer, has been revamped this year in light of a sexual abuse scandal that …

14/08/2024

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As Donald Trump adjusts to the reality of his new race against Kamala Harris, his campaign is counting on younger male voters to give him the edge in November in a pres…

14/08/2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Osprey crash in Australia that killed three Marines last August was caused by multiple pilot errors during a near mid-air collision, a military investigation has found. It also…

14/08/2024

Embattled Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell will retire by the end of the month, he announced Friday.

14/08/2024

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, of…

14/08/2024

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa can enforce a book ban this school year following a Friday ruling by a federal appeals court. The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district judge& #8217…

14/08/2024

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty Friday to running an illegal ga…

14/08/2024

NEW YORK (AP) — A couple of longtime Brooklyn residents were lounging in the heat last week, staring at a sidewalk tree pit often flooded by a leaky fire hydrant, when they came up with the idea fo…

14/08/2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Friday it has opted against what would have been its first-ever blocking of aid to an Israeli military unit over rights abuses, saying it is now satisfie…