Stop the presses. Mary Lincoln, the woman who put Northern Illinois University Press on the map as a university publishing house that produces nationally significant works, is retiring at the end of this week. Lincoln has worked at NIU for 31 years and...

NIU has set up new security and emergency procedures to prevent situations such as the one that occurred on the Virginia Tech campus last spring semester. The Virginia Tech incident made students and faculty alike more aware of campus safety. Residence...

Charles Albert, a sophomore at NIU and a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, was elected to the Executive Council of his fraternity during a leadership school held this summer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The Executive Council is the...

Giant pools of chocolaty water reflected the threatening northern sky. That's the only view Northern View Community residents got as they were being relocated from their homes. The Northern View Community parking lot was calm, save a few construction...

"The whole sky went black." Tony Jones, 19, of Northville witnessed an ordinary summer day quickly turned dark on Thursday. As storm clouds loomed overhead and tornado sirens sounded, Jones found himself stranded at the Village Commons Bookstore, seeking...

Starting a new school year is an opportunity to meet new people and join new causes. New students may initially be overwhelmed by the college experience. However, joining a group can be a way for students to get involved. With more than 260 student campus...

One of the more severe storms DeKalb has seen in 24 years pounded the area Thursday. After drenching DeKalb for the evening, the storm left the river swollen and flooded and some areas of DeKalb under water. The storm and sirens took over at about 2:30...

The C3 parking lot behind NIU's Convocation Center flooded Thursday, leaving some students stranded and their cars submerged. Shondra Moon, a freshman computer science major, stood watching her car plunge deep into what used to be a parking lot. Moon...

Rampant flooding last week forced NIU's campus to close and resulted in the cancellation of numerous campus and city events. DeKalb's Cornfest, NIU's Friday Fest and academic convocation and all District 428 classes Friday were canceled as a result of...

Students, their families and DeKalb residents were greeted Thursday by tornado warnings, rain, and flash floods. Sirens sounded in DeKalb on Thursday, causing faculty, students, and their families to seek shelter. According to DeKalb chief of Police Bill...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich declared DeKalb County a disaster area Sunday, due to flooding and water damage around the area. At a press conference in Lee County Friday, Blagojevich declared Cook, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties disaster areas. DuPage County...

The American Red Cross has set up an emergency shelter in the DeKalb Park District's Sports and Recreation Center, 1765 S. 4th St., to help those displaced by the flood. Minutes before displaced citizens were to arrive Friday, Red Cross workers were busy...