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It's that time of year again, the season when you'd better be paying more attention to your surroundings than you might normally. Our local deer population is looking for love.

Most of the growth is harmless, but some can produce toxic chemicals that cause sickness in people and pets.

Dennis Horton, Executive Director of the Rockford Regional Office of the Better Business Bureau (BBB), has got some great info to keep you from being a scam statistic.

The Rockford Better Business Bureau (BBB) is reminding consumers that the online “Secret Sister” gift exchange and similar invitations are illegal and should be ignored.

Another day, another attempt by scammers to screw up your holiday shopping.

October, November, and December are the 3 biggest months in Illinois for DVAs, or deer-vehicle accidents.

We're inching ever closer to that time of year when Illinoisans start having more and more up close and personal meetings with our local deer population. Those encounters almost always go poorly for the deer, and often go badly for the driver, too. How likely are you to suffer deer-related dama…

As I write this, Rockford's current temperature reading is only 84 degrees. However, before the day is out, we'll see temps over 90 degrees with a heat index that goes even higher. The next several days may bring even warmer temperatures--maybe even as high as 95.

I don't think many of us really gave a whole lot of thought to the airline practice of "bumping" until the videos of a battered and bleeding man being dragged off an airplane began being played around the clock on nearly every outlet on the planet.