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Horse Sold at Auction Returns Home
Dixon, IL – A horse sold at a local auction– worth $775,000– returned from it’s new home to its former pastures in rural Dixon yesterday. “We were cleaning out the rest of the items from the auction when we noticed
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Gene’s Story: “Leaving this City Is Hard, Real Hard… “
“If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.” – Jack Kerouac Gene Rorawitz was a little kid growing up in a Freedomport housing project when he discovered there might be more to life than stealing cans from the neighbor’s
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ROBERT “BOB”REDCAST 61 ROCKFORD Robert Redcast rode the great escalator into the sky Thursday Sept.13 Bob was born in Rockford Il in January 1951. He grew up in Byron and graduated from Rockford College. Bob was a CPA and practiced
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Beloit Woman Attacked by Famous Photographer
Rockford (RKFD) – A Beloit woman says she was attacked by a famous photographer downtown while she was day-drinking at a sports bar. Cindy Vellentyn, 45, of South Beloit, says she was saved by an unknown film student. Vellentyn set out Friday morning
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Annual Chili Hoedown is Cancelled.
ROCKFORD (RKFD) – The annual Chili Hoedown is cancelled. This year’s event was set to be at David’s Park and the Bee Moe Better Centre on October 13th, but organizers say they had to cancel because of the road conditions
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Woman Stabbed by Potato Man
ROCKFORD – A 32-year-old woman is expected to survive after being stabbed in the stomach and the eyebrow at about 9:45 p.m. Thursday in the 400 block of King Street. Police are looking for a suspect who goes by the
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