STATE IS GOING AFTER RECKLESS SNOWMOBILERS
Even as a salvage crew dredged a snowmobile from the depths of the Fox River last weekend, a pack of riders careered their high-powered sleds across a break in the...
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SENTENCING DELAY IN GANG SLAYING
Sentencing was postponed Tuesday for a Mt. Prospect youth found guilty of murder in one of the first street gang slayings in the northwest suburbs. The defendant, Dylan Metzel, 19,...
O’HARE RESERVISTS PREFER AURORA
Rockford, believed to be the most favored site for the relocation of the military airbase at O'Hare International Airport, suddenly has a new challenger: Aurora. Aurora came out on top...
DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL HIT-RUN ON NEW YEAR’S EVE
Police have charged a Niles woman with several traffic violations in connection with the New Year's Eve hit-and-run death of a Des Plaines woman. Carol Griffeth, 61, of Niles, was...
ARSON SUSPECTED IN FIRE AT RIFLE RANGE-GUN SHOP
Federal, state and local authorities were investigating a predawn fire Monday in a retail store of the Fox Valley Rifle Range at 33W760 Bolz Rd. in northern Kane County. At...
2 CHARGED IN PROSTITUTION
Two female employees of a massage parlor in the 1500 block of South Lee Street were arrested on prostitution charges after one of them allegedly solicited an undercover police officer....
ADJUNCT FACULTY’S MOVE FACES APPEAL
The faculty association at Elgin Community College has been notified that the college Board of Trustees has filed an appeal to an earlier Illinois Labor Relations Board decision that would...
SKOIEN TELLS WOMEN HE’S ON THEIR SIDE
Gary Skoien, a Republican candidate for Congress in the 8th District, is taking a strong stand for women's rights. And guess what? There are women out there taking a strong...
BERNARDIN DEFENDS OHIO ACTIONS
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin on Thursday defended his decisions involving a Cincinnati priest who, despite accusations of sexual misconduct, was able to have contact with children through his role with the...
SEARS STUNNED BY PACE’S PLAN TO CUT SERVICE
It wasn't just Pace's decision to drop suburban bus service to the Sears and Ameritech office campuses in Hoffman Estates that sparked the ire of the firms' executives Thursday. What...