Lifestyles Buns On Ice

2010-02-25T14:47:31Z

FILE-This Feb.7, 1972 file photo shows Janet Lynn, four-time United States champion from Rockford, Ill., in free style figure skating action in the Makomanai Ice Arena in Sapporo, Japan.(AP Photo/JWG/CK,File)

CIA victim interested in behavior behind economics

2010-02-23T01:56:59Z

<div id="subtitle">CIA employee killed in Afghanistan became interested in economics, religion after 9/11 attacks</div><div><p>As a high school student, Elizabeth Hanson chose an inspiring quote about life's journey to run with her photo in the yearbook. She possibly never dreamed her path someday would take her from

Rockford jobless rate highest of Ill. metro areas

2010-02-24T00:36:02Z

<div id="subtitle">Unemployment rate rises in most Illinois metro areas, Rockford highest at 15.7 percent</div><div><p>The jobless rate rose in most Illinois metropolitan areas in October.</p><p>Figures released Wednesday by the Frank Beil has been on the lookout.</p><p>He keeps an eye out for cars moving slowly down the street or strangers walking along the sidewalk of his suburban Chi...

Racially charged killing ignites Ill. community

2010-02-25T05:18:00Z

<div id="subtitle">Expecting justice: Downtrodden Ill. community grapples with racially charged fatal shooting</div><div><p>The anger spread almost as quickly as the news: an unarmed black man was fatally shot by two white police officers inside a northern Illinois church-run day care filled with children.</p><p>Competing stories about how 23-year-old NAACP calls for greater police oversight, training after man killed inside Illinois church</div><div><p>The NAACP is renewing a push for federal standards on police use of force after the shooting of an unarmed black man by two white police officers inside a church while day care children watched.</p><p>Wi...

Mail carriers named for heroic, humanitarian acts

2010-02-25T12:12:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Saving lives, collecting goods for the needy earn awards for mail carriers across country</div><div><p>A mail carrier who proved himself a good neighbor by rescuing an elderly man from a fire has been named hero of the year by the National Association of Letter Carriers.</p><p>The union...

Guard mother

2009-08-14T06:59:27Z

Sgt. Ashley Calhoun, of Rockford, with the Illinois National Guard 135th Chemical Unit, rides as gunner in a humvee on a patrol mission on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, July 14, 2009. (E. Jason Wambsgans/St. Anthony's Hospital, Rockford, Ill. in 1944. One of their duties is the upkeep of the linen room. In this picture, Mrs. Nakamura is placing nurses uniforms into the individual compartments, while her daughter, Dora, stands ready with more clean uniforms to go into other compartments. ...

Rising unemployment accelerates foreclosure crisis

2010-02-26T08:33:32Z

<div id="subtitle">As unemployment marches higher, foreclosures surge, threatening Obama plan</div><div><p>Relentlessly rising unemployment is triggering more home foreclosures, threatening the Obama administration's efforts to end the housing crisis and diminishing hopes the economy will rebound with vigor.</p><p>In past recessions, the housing industry hel...

Foreclosure Crisis Unemployment

2009-07-16T13:00:45Z

In this photo taken April 23, 2009, Robin Lewis sits in her kitchen surrounded by jugs of water in Rockford, Ill. Lewis who's water and heat have been shut off, is trying desperately to save her home from foreclosure. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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Ill. derailment revives hazardous cargo debate

2010-02-26T16:00:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Deadly Ill. derailment revives national debate about moving hazardous cargo by rail</div><div><p>When derailed freight train cars carrying ethanol burst into flames just 50 miles from her Chicago suburb, killing a motorist who tried to flee, Barrington Mayor Karen Darch saw her worst fears realized.</p><p>"This is exactly the kind of thing we've bee...

NTSB finds water on rails at Ill. derailment site

2010-02-26T18:27:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Federal investigators at site of deadly Illinois derailment say high water may have had a role</div><div><p>There was high water along the northern Illinois rail line where a freight train derailed, setting off a fiery explosion and killing one person, federal authorities said Sunday.</p><p>It's unclear what the exact water levels were during Frid...

Woman killed fleeing Ill. train derailment, blast

2010-02-26T18:41:20Z

<div><p>Railroad tank cars holding thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol derailed and exploded in flames, killing a 41-year-old woman as she tried to run to safety from a car stopped at a crossing.</p><p>Three other people from the same car escaped with severe burns. Hundreds of people were evacuated from homes near the explosion.</p><p>Eighteen tank cars, all filled with ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, der...

Tank cars blow up in Illinois derailment, 1 killed

2010-02-26T18:53:41Z

<div><p>Tank cars loaded with thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol exploded in flames as a freight train derailed, killing one person and forcing evacuations of hundreds of nearby homes.</p><p>Five tank cars continued burning Saturday morning and officials said they would wait for the "very dangerous" inferno to burn out by itself.</p><p>Rockford

ILL TRAIN DERAILMENT

2009-06-20T10:33:22Z

Map locates Rockford, Ill. where a train derailed

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Woman spots man in bra rummaging through her car

2010-02-26T22:15:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Michigan woman claims she spotted wearing a purple bra and boxer shorts rummaging through her car</div><div><p>A man has been charged after a neighbor said she found him wearing a purple bra and boxer shorts while rummaging through her car. Jacob Andrew Fast, 20, was arraigned Wednesday on charges of first-degree home invasion and resisting and obstructing a police officer. Rockford, Ill. schools on lockdown after freshman shot in leg, no arrests</div><div><p>Several public schools in Rockford, Ill., have been locked down after a student was shot outside a school building.</p><p>Police Sgt. Andre Brass says a male student was shot in the leg around 9 a.m. ...

Turning Apartments For Rent Into a Home

2009-03-17T07:14:32Z

<p>Turning Apartments For Rent Into a Home</p><p>By Christine OKelly</p><p></p><p>Apartments for rent often conjure up an image of a sterile room with no personality and a cold air about it. While they aren't always the most beautifully decorated homes in the world when you move into them, you don't have to live with them that way. With a few quick and easy tips, you will find a bland rental quickly turns into a home that is so comfortable you won't w...

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