The Rock Island Police Department announced that 4-year-old Blessing Aoci, who was the subject of an Amber Alert after her mother's car was reported stolen, was never actually missing. Police ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (WLS) -- Police in Rock Island, Illinois said last week's Amber Alert for an allegedly abducted child was a hoax. The child's mother, Princess Illunga, had told police that her ...

A preliminary hearing for a 37-year-old Rock Island woman has been postponed because an interpreter was not available Tuesday ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - “This isn’t something that you would even typically conceive of,” said Rock Island Police Chief Timothy McCloud. “Why? The answer is why? And we just don’t ...

A Rock Island woman whose false claim that her daughter was kidnapped sparked a statewide Amber Alert was arrested Thursday in Wisconsin and faces a felony charge of filing a false police report.

Rock Island police say the mother of a ‘missing’ four-year-old girl, who the department later said was safe the entire time following an AMBER Alert hoax, has been arrested in Wisconsin.