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City Market Attendance Doubles As Local Man Falls Off Wagon
Rockford, IL’s City Market is in it’s 3rd year of partying. Every Friday between 3pm and 8pm, people gather in good spirits downtown on the east side of the river to enjoy beer and laughs. It’s been such a success that attendance has been out of control…
Read MoreMan Breaks Leg Running from Pregnant Female with Knife. 0
Rockford IL. Rockford . Deputies were called to the 18000 block of Los Palacios Drive around 2:55 p.m. to find a 23-year-old man a lying on the sidewalk bleeding from multiple stab wounds,and a badly broken leg authorities said.
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School Lockdown Started By Vegan Student
A small 4th or 5th grade vegan student , thought to be armed with a rubberband and a stack of paperclips, led police on a brief foot chase Thursday afternoon and triggered a soft lockdown of a local grade school.
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Bears Vs. Packers | Game Stats and Morning After Results
No one has sent us a tip yet as to who won the game last night. Tommy from Neenah texted a few of us here at RKFD with what was labeled as a game update but it said…
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Freeport Alderman to Vote on Mayoral “Bagel Tax”
“When we have foreign dignitaries from Rockford and Beloit stop by, I like to have the nicest Freeport grown coffee beans and grounds, and bagels, and maybe some nice little cookies for them. It’s a nice gesture,” says…
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Beloit man, 98, halfway through his walk to Byron
Jeremy Hersherberger of Beloit, Wi. is midway through his walk to the Byron Nuclear Plant as he stays at his friends home Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, in Rockford…
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