Police officers patrol stadium, neighborhoods MIAMI (AP)—Police set up checkpoints at Joe Robbie Stadium and patrolled black neighborhoods on Super Bowl Sunday, which dawned quiet and rainy after days of rioting. Some 300 police officers assigned to...

At least Bob Huggins won't have to be around all the long faces in Ohio as that state mourns over the Cincinnati Bengals' heartbreaking Super Bowl loss. The Akron men's basketball coach and his squad have been in DeKalb since Saturday night preparing...

I really didn't think my New Year's celebration would leave me sober. Instead, I imagined the itchy teeth, twisting intestines and red-hot pipes that so commonly accompany my bouts with post-consumption blues. I wasn't hung over for the first time in...

Two DeKalb County road improvement projects, holding a total price tag of about $550,000, are scheduled to receive bids Feb. 3, said Rep. John Countryman (R_DeKalb). The first project proposed by the Illinois Department of Transportation involves the...

A change in Student Association senate voting districts, administrative decisions involving student groups and group funding are some major issues the SA senate will discuss this semester. SA Vice President Gregg Bliss said redistricting will be debated...

After a national search that included thousands of applicants, NIU has a new associate director of University Programming and Activities. Flecia Thomas, a graduate of Illinois State University in Normal, began her job as associate director of UP&A...

Consumers of Commonwealth Edison Co. are due to receive refunds of summer rate overcharges that could amount to up to 20 percent of their total electric bill for the last seven months, according to an analysis conducted by the Citizens Utility Board....

NIU President LaTourette's Fee Study Committee will meet Monday to begin discussion on a proposed student fee increase to provide revenue for the Northern Star for the fiscal year 1989. The meeting wll begin at 7:45 p.m. in the Lowden Hall Conference...

The December balances in the State of Illinois General Funds are up to $71 million from the previous year. However, available funds for higher education remain about the same, despite a cash flow problem experienced last year. igher education funding...

NIU senior Sandra Kaufmann was honored last week at the American College Dance Festival at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa by being chosen as one of the finalist to perform a choreographic work at the festival's gala performance. Alan Bernstein, a...

I've always learned that you can't put a price tag on concepts like friendship, kindness, and gentleness. I seem to have been wrong. Today's the day. This is the beginning of a kinder, gentler nation. Only it's costing about $25 million, give or take...