The City of DeKalb has proposed storm water projects totaling $15 million, but a five-year capital improvement program issued in January determined $250,000 was available for storm water projects anually, City Manager Mark Stevens said. A primary issue...

The Student Association Finance Committee Saturday recommended doubling last year's budget for the Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic, the governing bodies for campus fraternities and sororities. The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic presented...

CHICAGO (AP)—Two men are charged with attempted murder and armed robbery after taking more than $800 from two suburban restaurant workers before shooting them in a washroom, police say. Bond was set at $2 million each for Charles Dabbs, 25, of River...

County Clerk Terry Desmond asked the Student Association Sunday to endorse placing the Superconducting Super Collider in Illinois. "We need input from people like you with impact to send letters and petitions to the president of the United States," Desmond...

Have you noticed the number of studies, polls and surveys constantly being done on people of various ages for various reasons? Why? I mean, outside of being points of interest to talk about over the dinner table after the macaroni and cheese has crystallized...

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP)—As a 52-year-old divorced farmer, Frank Cook said he had little time left after caring for his cows, hogs, crops and children to find a date. So he has become one of more than 600 farmers, agribusiness workers or other people with...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP)—New polls of New Hampshire voters released Sunday suggest the Republican presidential race is an even fight between George Bush and Bob Dole, and Michael Dukakis remains the runaway leader among the Democrats. The continuing tracking...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP)—Sen. Paul Simon turned his fire away Sunday from Rep. Richard Gephardt and focused it on Gov. Michael Dukakis, generally seen as the frontrunner in New Hampshire's primary on Tuesday. Television ads that began airing Sunday show...

When local Viet Now members gathered Saturday to learn about new research in Agent Orange, many expressed their own experiences with the chemical and correlated diseases. William Lewis of the New Jersey Agent Orange Commission said a recent widow called...

The Student Association Finance Committee has recommended a budget of more than $3,260 for the InterFraternity Council/Panhellenic, the governing bodies of the greek system. This budget is double the amount approved last year. Perhaps that's because the...

The Faculty Senate Task Force said Friday its first priority is determining the specific responsibilities of a faculty senate and discussed collecting information from other universities with faculty senates. William Monat, NIU regency professor and chairman...

WASHINGTON (AP)—Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware was listed in satisfactory condition Sunday after undergoing surgery to correct a burst aneurysm in an artery supplying blood to his brain, a hospital spokesman said. The 45-year-old senator, who...