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It just got a little tougher to find a good "waste tire" in Rockford, now that 4,661.58 tons of them have been hauled away by the Illinois EPA.

In 46 states, you can celebrate America's birthday with lots of brightly-colored fireworks. Illinois is among 4 states that still severely restrict it.

Despite the huge effort being put forth to warn people against using synthetic marijuana, 3 residents of Winnebago County are in the hospital with severe bleeding.

Less than a week after the Illinois Department of Public Health warning about "severe bleeding" from synthetic weed, Illinois reports its first fatality.

At least four other people have died since 2013 in Yellowstone Park looking for something called "Fenn's Treasure."

With the ups and downs of Rockford area temperatures lately, we're seeing a lot of melting going on. With the melting, we're also seeing a lot of what the Weather Channel calls "ice daggers of doom."

January is National Radon Awareness Month, and the Winnebago County Health Department (WCHD) is working with the US Environmental Health Protection Agency (EPA) in a national campaign.

Maybe, just maybe you've grown tired of doing your family's Thanksgiving Day turkey the same way year in and year out. "Buy it, thaw it, prep it, roast it, and then serve it" is still the way most of us prefer to go, but if you're open-minded and experimental, there are other ways to go about it.

The contents of Rockford's water isn't as great as Carrie Underwood singing "oh, there must've been something in the water." Truth be told, Rockford water is much worse.

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.