An NIU message: Word has spread rapidly about the fringe "religious" group (the WBC) that is bringing its agenda of hate and homophobia to our community as we grapple with the tragic events that happened on our campus. Many students and others have come...

University Police Chief Donald Grady offered an update Wednesday on the ongoing investigation regarding Steven Kazmierczak's motive for opening fire on a class in Cole Hall last Thursday. In a news conference Wednesday afternoon at Altgeld Hall, Grady...

To our readers, The Northern Star will not publish a print edition until Monday, Feb. 25. Plans are in the works for a commemorative, special edition on or around that date. In the meantime, please look to our Web site for significant news updates on...

Kishwaukee Community Hospital held a brief news conference Monday afternoon to update the status of one of the students injured in Thursday's shooting, Samantha Dehner, 20. Following comments from her doctors, Ms. Dehner's father, Robert, took to the...

Coworkers of Joseph Peterson, instructor of the Introduction to Oceanography class that was attacked Thursday, reacted to their friend's injury and the tragedy at NIU. Peterson, a graduate student working towards his doctorate at NIU, works at Rockford's...

Parents of one of the victims of Thursday's shooting spoke to the press Saturday afternoon at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. Robert and Vickie Dehner's daughter Samantha was one of the students in the Introduction to Ocean Sciences classroom when the...

In the wake of Thursday's tragedy, NIU athletics will join the rest of the university in observing a week of healing. A total of 25 athletic competitions will be canceled between Friday, Feb. 15, and Monday, Feb. 25. "At a time like this, it is critically...

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, Our campus family has endured a tragedy of unfathomable proportions this week. Thursday afternoon's tragedy took six lives and left others among us with serious wounds of body and spirit. Last night, more than 2,000 of...

The chief spokesperson for NIU addressed the media in a small press briefing Saturday afternoon to speak about what the university is doing to move forward. "What I'm here to talk to you about is what the university is doing as we move forward and begin...

As a non-stop world remained moving, a small part of the globe stopped. Traffic lights still went from red to green and car wheels kept rotating. But one portion of the corner at Lucinda Avenue and Normal Road did not move. At midnight Friday a group...

Kishwaukee Community Hospital administrators held another press conference Friday morning to discuss the events of the previous night. The technology available at Kishwaukee Community Hospital played an important role in patient care after the Cole Hall...

The suspect who gunned down six people in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall before committing suicide was identified Friday as 27-year-old former student Steven Kazmierczak, according to Florida authorities and a source familiar with the investigation....