Sharon Torri

Recent Articles

• Unemployment in QC at lowest level since 2008

  Posted on: 5:01 pm, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 04:40pm, December 27, 2012

  A new report released Thursday revealed that unemployment in the QC has dropped to its lowest level in roughly four years.
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• New year comes new laws in Illinois

  Posted on: 3:37 pm, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 03:25pm, December 27, 2012

  More than 150 new laws go into effect come January 1st, 2013.
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• Woman comes home to find sex offender folding laundry

  Posted on: 2:50 pm, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 02:43pm, December 27, 2012

  A Cook County woman came home on Christmas to find a strange man folding her laundry in her Irving Park neighborhood apartment, police said.
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• Iowa DOT: No licenses for illegal immigrants

  Posted on: 2:14 pm, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 01:53pm, December 27, 2012

  The Iowa Department of Transportation says it will not issue driver’s licenses to young illegal immigrants who are now eligible...
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• Mother daughter team caught shoplifting

  Posted on: 1:34 pm, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 01:30pm, December 27, 2012

  A Central Iowa woman has been arrested for allegedly working alongside her three juvenile children to shoplift from a department store.
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• Funeral services planned for Lyric Cook-Morrissey

  Posted on: 12:17 pm, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 02:43pm, December 28, 2012

  Funeral services for Lyric Cook have been set for Saturday, December 29.
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• Newtown official: We’re overwhelmed, so please stop mailing us packages

  Posted on: 11:13 am, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 11:09am, December 27, 2012

  Newtown, Connecticut, has received so many gifts since the Dec. 14 massacre that a local official is kindly asking people to stop sending them.
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• Condom dispensers to be installed in high schools

  Posted on: 11:07 am, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 11:06am, December 27, 2012

  Philadelphia will be installing condom dispensers in all 22 city high schools before students return from their Christmas break.
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• A wonderful, winter ride for first timer

  Posted on: 10:35 am, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 10:19am, December 27, 2012

  It was a day of firsts for a young boy visiting the Quad Cities from Chicago. Santiago Timion went sledding...
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• New charge against Marne man for shooting dog

  Posted on: 10:16 am, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri

  A man accused of shooting and killing the dog of a woman with ties to the Quad Cities is facing a new animal abuse charge.
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• Silvis reported 11 water main breaks since November

  Posted on: 9:51 am, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 09:28am, December 27, 2012

  The City of Silvis has reported 11 water main breaks in the city since November 2012.  There was a report...
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• Arizona plan would arm principals

  Posted on: 9:06 am, December 27, 2012, by Sharon Torri, updated on: 09:03am, December 27, 2012

  Arizona's attorney general proposed arming one principal or employee at each school to defend against attacks such as the recent Connecticut school massacre.
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