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ROCKFORD — The Rockford School Board approved contracts with three labor groups Tuesday and agreed to keep the district’s tax levy rate flat for the upcoming tax cycle.

ROCKFORD — Two men suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds late this afternoon in and just outside the Fairgrounds Valley housing complex.

ROCKFORD — It’s been more than three and a half years since Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger “felt the bottom falling out of the world” before spending 208 seconds landing a US Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York, saving all 155 passengers and crew on board.

ROCKFORD — Jody L. Kossow didn’t speak during an appearance before Judge Rosemary Collins Tuesday, two weeks after her arrest on charges of first-degree murder.

MACHESNEY PARK — Several residents will be temporarily displaced after their home caught fire this afternoon in the 200 block of Wallace Avenue.

ROCKFORD — Two men on the run and wanted in connection to an Aug. 23 shooting in Rockford were located Monday in Lake Geneva, Wis., Rockford police said.

CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn's administration is trickling out information about what Illinois health insurance prices will be on the new marketplace that's a backbone of President Barack Obama's health care law.

ROCKFORD — A teenaged parolee who has blown every second chance the criminal justice system has offered him is wanted on a warrant in connection with the early Saturday morning slaying of a 22-year-old man outside a Mobil gas station.

BELVIDERE — A social studies teacher charged with having sexual contact with a student no longer works for the Belvidere School District.

Cool, comfortable high pressure continues for several more days. The problem is our lack of rainfall.