Kohl's ad could launch bubbly 4-year-old's career

STERLING – Joanna Rabadan, 4, the youngest daughter of John and Jessica Rabadan of Sterling, this summer will appear in a print advertisement – a July direct-mail catalog or newspaper insert – for Kohl's department stores. ... Read More »

Banks: ATM, credit cards at risk

OREGON – Federal authorities have informed area banks about a computer network breach in a local merchant’s system. As a result, customers’ debit or credit cards may be at risk if they were used at the retailer in the past several months, and might have been used to make unauthorized purchases.

Plan commission denies request for second homeless shelter

DIXON – The plan commission said no Thursday to a request from PADS to run a homeless shelter for women and children at a donated house at 1117 University St.

Authorities tie Sterling burglaries to multistate check-forging ring

STERLING – Members of a multistate check-forging and burglary ring who investigators say are responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bank fraud also broke into several Sterling businesses and stole payroll and other checks, Mendota police said Thursday in a news release.

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Watch where you sit

On Tuesday, the Lee County Board voted 12-9 to approve a proposed wind farm in the southwestern part of the county. That happened after 27 sessions of a public hearing held by the Zoning Board of Appeals. Is everyone wiser for it?
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Good or bad? Depends on who you ask

Sometimes readers ask for more good news in the paper. They say we in the media only cover the bad. But one person's positive is another's negative.

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