Rock Falls News Archives

Family and friends in Cedar City were grieving Wednesday after 20-year-old Kilynna Blake and her 2-year-old son Dayan Blake were identified as victims of an ex-convict's three-state killing spree.

Now that the man suspected of killing eight people in Illinois and Missouri is in custody, peace of mind is beginning to return to the Whiteside County communities of Rock Falls and Sterling, where five of the ...

More charges are likely for a man suspected in a two-state crime spree that left eight people dead.

Local officers tend to a mourner at the scene where four bodies were discovered at an apartment in Rock Falls, Ill.

Amy Goodell immediately panicked when she learned that four people were found dead in this apartment building two doors down from her Rock Falls home.

Authorities in Illinois have captured an ex-convict suspected of killing eight people in two states.

WHILE AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING AT THE CRIME SCENE IN A NEARBY APARTMENT BUILDING, BOBBIE CLAXTON WAS PLAYING WITH HER THREE CHILDREN IN THE TOWN'S CENTENNIAL PARK.

Police are searching for a 28-year-old convicted felon they say may be connected to a string of 8 killings in Illinois and Missouri in the last week.

Galesburg Police investigate suspicious death HyVee employee finds dead body behind store Fire spreads in Buffalo Two weeks ago, West Front Street was lined with tens of thousands of sandbags.