Cavel Timeline 1987 Cavel opens March 31, 2002 Cavel burns down - cause undetermined May 28, 2004 Illinois House of Representatives does not pass legislation to ban the slaughter of horses in Illinois. June 9, 2004 Cavel reopens Sept. 7, 2006 U.S. House...

The legal proceedings involving the death of Luis Noriega stalled on Friday. Nathan Schrank, charged with two counts of first degree murder, one count of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of aggravated battery, was scheduled to have a status hearing...

Fans will be lined up at video game stores tonight, waiting for midnight so they can pick up the third installment in the Halo series. Halo 3, developed by Bungie Software and published by Microsoft for the XBox 360, will be released at midnight Tuesday...

John Laesch is campaigning for Congress in the 14th District of Illinois. Laesch, a former military intelligence analyst, previously ran for the 14th District seat in 2006 but was defeated by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Hastert has since...

DeKalb County is still waiting for word from the Federal Emergency Management Agency as to whether it will be considered a federal disaster area. On Friday, Sept. 14, Gov. Rod Blagojevich requested the federal declaration of DeKalb County as a disaster...

The NIU Board of Trustees paved the way for enhancing academics and increasing research. The BOT met Thursday morning and approved items which included the 2008 fiscal year budget, a renewed technology fee, a research center for particle accelerator and...

It is hard to say where the students and townies go between nine and two at night since the Junction Eating Place, 816 W. Lincoln Highway, became smoke free. It has been more than a year since the smoking ban went into effect in the restaurants of DeKalb,...

Illinois is ground zero for the fuel battle, where gas meets corn. In 2005, Illinois produced 25 percent of the US's supply of the controversial alternative fuel, corn-ethanol. In 2006, Rochelle Ill., the Illinois River Energy, LLC opened a dry mill,...

The official Tenth Day Count, taken on Sept. 10, showed stable enrollment at NIU. The total enrollment for fall 2007 is 25,254, according to the Tenth Day Count. The 2007 count listed the total enrollment as 59 fewer than the fall 2006 count of 25,313,...

Cavel International Inc. remains operational for the time being. As the litigation determining its fate continues, some consider the possibility of its doors closing permanently. In this case, the facility's employees would lose their jobs, the building...

As John Donzelli was waiting in line to get into a local bar, he witnessed one of DeKalb's recurring phenomenons. A group of young women in line before him were unquestionably let into the bar, Donzelli said. He had previously overheard them expressing...

Manpower Incorporated's newest survey found that DeKalb's job market is growing. The Employment Outlook Survey, released on Sept. 11, shows 37 percent of companies that were polled plan to increase hiring from October through December of this year. Staffing...