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Here's how you can help Belvidere's Caleb Hoffman get to Vancouver, B.C., for the World Deaf Games hockey showcase.

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"Dick Durbin is, and will always be, a giant of the United States Senate," wrote U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois ...

Kathi Edwards is a freelance correspondent for the Rockford Register Star.

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It’s easy to dislike a nebulous “bureaucracy.” But most government waste is almost certainly from fraud. Going after law enforcement, public health and safety agencies (e.g. the EPA ...

More than a dozen Winnebago County Board members are sponsoring an ordinance that would restore executive powers to the ...

The median home in Winnebago County listed for $248,888 in March, up 18.9% from the previous month's $209,375, an analysis of ...

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