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ROCKFORD — An agency that serves seniors in Winnebago and surrounding counties considers the state “pretty up to date” on its debt because payments are arriving about 60 days past due.

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ROCKFORD — A jury in the case of a South Beloit woman accused of starving her 7-week-old son to death will hear all two-dozen murder charges against her, including allegations that her actions were “heinous” and “premeditated.”

ROCKFORD — A Rockford man was charged with no firearm owner’s identification card after threatening loved ones with a gun late Saturday night.
 

Highs will approach 70 today, but fall just short across most of the area. Speaking of fall, the autumnal equinox is at 3:44 p.m.

ROCKFORD — The federal trial of Anthony D’Agostino, who is charged with operating a Ponzi scheme that cost investors at least $20 million in losses, is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Monday.

The Register Star spent the past month reviewing Winnebago County court records, Sheriff’s Department records, Rockford police reports, and information provided by the Prisoner Review Board and Illinois Department of Corrections to find out where parolee Jerome Pruitt was living at the time of his arrest in connection with a four-day crime spree on Broadway. Different agencies have conflicting addresses and release dates for the repeat offender. The state and county have different spellings of his last name. Pruitt was living in Rockford, although he had told the Department of Corrections that he was living at his host site in Chicago. This story explores gaps in the oversight of parolees.

ROCKFORD — Federal drug-enforcement agents want to strengthen ties with their local counterparts as they attempt to take local investigations and connect them with national cases.

ROCKFORD — Air conditioning in the Rockford School District is a bit of a hot mess. About 20 of the schools have central air. Some have it throughout the building, some have it in parts.

The 17th annual event is billed as the largest World War II-era re-enactment in the United States with more than 1,200 uniformed re-enactors from 40 states representing soldiers from the United States, Great Britain, France, Poland, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, Japan, Italy and Germany.

It seemed like an innocuous addition to a bill last spring. A Senate amendment to House Bill 2520 made poker runs a part of the state’s Charitable Games Act. The events are a popular way of raising money for charitable causes.