Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital released updates at a press conference Friday on the three shooting victims taken to the hospital after Thursday's shooting. Unnum Rahman, sophomore business major from Plainfield, was upgraded from serious condition to...

Kishwaukee Community Hospital administrators held another press conference Friday morning to discuss the events of the previous night. Kishwaukee Community Hospital treated eighteen victims of the Cole Hall shooting for gunshot wounds. All the victims...

To honor the victims of Thursday's shootings at NIU, attendants at the DeKalb/Sycamore community basketball game are asked to wear red and black, according to a DeKalb High School press release. Any NIU students wishing to attend the Saturday night game...

"We were dealing with a disturbed individual," said NIU President John Peters. The name of the shooter was officially announced at a 9 a.m. NIU press conference: Stephen P. Kazmierczak, 27, of Elk Grove. Kazmierczak had been a graduate student at NIU...

Five victims from Thursday's shooting have been identified by DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller. They are as follows: Daniel Parmenter, 20, last of Westchester Catalina Garcia, 20, last of Cicero Ryanne Mace, 19, last of Carpentersville Julianna Gehant,...

Kishwaukee Community Hospital administrators held another press conference Friday morning to discuss the events of the previous night. Praise for the "teamwork and responsiveness" of the community was frequent during a press conference at Kishwaukee Community...

Two 2007 NIU graduates have identified Thursday's shooter as a former residence hall neighbor. Ben Woloszyn, former Northern Star photo editor and current staff photographer for the Laramie Boomerang in Laramie, Wyoming, said he lived next door to the...

"I'm focused on the NIU family, our parents and our students," NIU president John Peters said in a public address Friday morning regarding the Cole Hall shooting Thursday afternoon. As announced at Friday morning's press conference, the shooting has claimed...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich spoke today at a press conference at NIU to express his condolences to the campus community. "I came here today because I personally wanted to not just walk on the campus and see things and learn things, but I wanted to personally...

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich today ordered all state facilities to lower U.S. and Illinois state flags to half staff following the Cole Hall shootings on campus. Blagojevich will travel to the campus today to meet with NIU officials and emergency responders,...

The campus of Northern Illinois was just about empty Friday afternoon. According to a Grant Hall Tower front desk manager Chonty Hunter, many students, at least in the residence halls, have decided to leave campus for the weekend. "There's like a total...

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...