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I love Chinese food and consider myself a loving person, but even I have been suspicious of why China wants to own so much Missouri farm land. The state apparently feels the same as it just dropped the hammer on how much land China can own in Missouri and where they can own it.

Arkansas is the southern neighbor to the Show-Me State, and they just became the 1st state to force China to sell the land in their state, will Missouri follow their lead? Here are the details...

With no shortage of hot-button topics, 16th District Congressman Adam Kinzinger visited the WROK Morning Show on Wednesday morning.

Make no mistake, I'm a cake lover. Cake or pie? I'll always go with the cake. Unless, of course, it's a cake that screams when I cut it. Even then, if it were my daughter Molly's German chocolate cake, I'd still put up with the screaming. So, what's the deal with this overly-vocal frosted concoction...

Budget Impasse Backlogging State Crime Labs Roscoe man arrested for underage drinking, breaking into vehicles in Loves Park Beloit Police asking for public's help locating convicted child sex offender who removed monitoring device BBB Warns of Halloween Scams Gorman, Mayor Morrissey returning to China for downtown Rockford hotel Methadone Clinic Gets Turned Away by Rockford Zoning Board Cubs

I sometimes laugh a bit when someone complains about being caught in Rockford's rush hour. Not that it can't be a pain, but c'mon...you know that there are places so much worse, like Chicago and Milwaukee, both close enough that you could go see for yourself without having to go to New York, Houston, or the American grand-daddy of traffic jams, Los Angeles...

Tuesday night was not a good night to be outside for a stroll (or any other reason) in Gilbert Arizona. Thousands of bees swarmed a neighborhood there, stinging anyone and anything that they encountered, including a firefighter who took 40-50 stings after the bees got inside his protective clothing (I'm thinking this guy is due a refund at the very least): That's a pretty bad situation, but it pal

Off the top of your head, can you tell me, roughly, how many people there are in China? If you said "1.357 billion!!", congratulations. You've shown that you can Google and read something else at the same time. But seriously (said the guy who had to Google to get that number, too), with a billion-plus people in a country, you'd figure that it would be tough to be recognized as the worst

Looking over the various postings on our website this week, I've concluded there are some bizarre things taking place on our planet that you might never have heard about had you not stopped off here for a bit. I mean, street-fighting kangaroos? Blo...

The manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy took a big hit during the recession, but it appears to be making a comeback. A recent story in Roll Call points out that the Commerce Department reports that the sector had recovered all the value lost in the recession...