Teenager charged in bomb threat
A Lake Park High School junior was charged with felony disorderly conduct Tuesday after allegedly calling in a phony bomb threat that halted classes at the Roselle district's west campus....
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Tax rate increases for schools not easy sell
Area voters held their pocketbooks tight Tuesday, widely rejecting school tax increases from Gurnee to River Grove to Thornton. There were exceptions, as in northwest suburban East Maine School District...
Man slain in parking lot at high school identified
A 22-year-old Melrose Park man gunned down in a school parking lot was identified publicly Tuesday, but police said they have made no arrests in the death. Jermen Ocegueda of...
River Grove’s Guerin goes coed
For the girls at Guerin College Preparatory High School in River Grove, Wednesday was not only the first day of class, it was the first time there were boys in...
Still separate, unequal
Fifty years after a landmark court decision brought the promise of better schooling for black students, most of Illinois' black children are still relegated to segregated and inferior schools, a...
4 die in Downstate plant explosion
Firefighters from about 25 departments worked all day Saturday trying to extinguish a blaze at the Formosa Plastics Corp. plant sparked by a chemical explosion that killed four workers. The...
Local Muslims fear more dark days in Middle East
When Kamran Memon heard Saturday that Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi was assassinated in an Israeli air strike, he was immediately worried that the killing would set back the peace...
Golden Apples greet teachers
Jelaine Binford, the chair of the business education department at Curie Metropolitan High School, came in early Wednesday morning to check on a report that a virus was attacking the...
‘No one is immune’
Martha Stewart's criminal conviction sends the message that the government will zealously pursue those it suspects of insider trading, even when the parties involved are deep-pocketed, powerful and well-connected, legal...
Founder’s woes imperil empire
Kristina Gold planned her entire wedding with help from Martha Stewart. The Schaumburg woman studied Martha's bridal magazines and took tips from the domestic diva's Web site. Gold even had...