1. Rockford is roused from his sleep by Los Angeles' finest, handcuffed and hauled to the precinct.

2. She commutes between Chicago and Rockford every day.

3. Rockford may have the highest unemployment in Illinois but it has at least one thing going for it: friends in China, the world's fastest-growing major economy.

4. ROCKFORD — Veronica Johnson has seen firsthand how state standardized tests have changed the way teachers teach.

5. A city of northern Illinois east of Rockford. It is a manufacturing center in a farming region. Population, 5,7'.

6. Mary Holmes of Rockford is coming to stay with me a few days next week.

7. Floretta Leavy, of Rockford, Ill., sentenced in 1984 to 366 days in prison and three years of parole for drug offenses.

8. When we get back down to Rockford, I'll clean them and have Betty make us some nice roast duck.

9. Nagesh has confessed that Rockford is part autobiographical from his childhood.

10. The family from Rockford, Mich., first got the attention of their hometown news media, but have since gone national — including an appearance Saturday on NBC's "TODAY" show.

11. Also on hand is Becker, still a lieutenant and still trying to downplay his friendship with Rockford.

12. She longed to go down into the center of Rockford and join the celebrating throngs.

13. My additional experience includes working as a City Park Recreation Director in Rockford, South Dakota for the years of 1985 to the present time .

14. The sculpture base is engraved with a short course historical of 200 years of immigration and settlement in Rockford.

15. The flags represent 40 different nationalities, all currently dwelling in the Rockford area in significant numbers.

16. He played a physical training professor Johnny Matthews in Rockford.

17. Jerry Douthett, 48, woke up on a Saturday night in late July in his Rockford, Michigan home to find his Jack Russell Terrier, Kiko, had gnawed off his right big toe.

18. "It's such a relief after all the screaming you see on TV, " says Chuck Sweeny, political editor of the Rockford Register Star. "Obama is reaching out.

19. These pages are a collection of boats and skis, and many of them ... 06,1995 Seadoo Opel, Rockford, Illinois, and requested 2500 dollars U.

20. There's also major fiber that follows the interstates, up through Rockford and along I-88, so that has enabled us to build a highly connected communication network of the future.

21. Twice a year, my family would head to nearby Rockford, Illinois, to spend some time with our friends the Funderburgs.

22. He's also here to visit a new factory in the central Chinese city of Xi'an invested by Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies that has a large presence in Rockford.

23. The flags represent 40 different nationalities, all currently dwelling in the Rockford area significant numbers.