Despite the surge in gas prices in the last few weeks, gas stations are busy as normal. "Nothing has changed; people are just complaining more," said Ann Graf, assistant manager for the BP Gas Station at 1102 N. First St. Bill White , owner of Car Hospital,...

WASHINGTON - When the Ink Spots sang "I love the java jive and it loves me" in 1940, they could not have known how right they were. Coffee not only helps clear the mind and perk up the energy, it also provides more healthful antioxidants than any other...

A 53-year-old Kirkland man died after a train struck him Saturday. James Neale was walking on the train tracks behind the 400 block of West Main Street in Kirkland when the train, operated by Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad, hit him. The train was...

The first official school week and weekend are over and already police have handed out almost 200 drinking tickets. Law officials wrote 84 tickets between Friday and Saturday night, primarily along West Hillcrest Drive and Greenbrier Road. Since the Aug....

Hurricane Katrina is moving swiftly through the Gulf of Mexico and heading toward New Orleans. As of press time, the hurricane was 170 miles south/southeast of New Orleans. According to cnn.com, the hurricane is projected to hit the city early this morning....

Max Tolsky and Genny Kriwulczenko came from Buffalo Grove. They stumbled upon Corn Fest while looking for something to do on a Sunday afternoon and heard an advertisement on the radio. They were impressed by the size of the festival and happy they made...

Sullivan’s Tavern has kept the pints pouring for DeKalbians for the last 60 years. This May the family-owned business celebrated the watering hole’s success by doing what three generations of Sullivans have done for more than half a century: serving...

What should you do if you are driving on the highway and you really need to release some excess fluids? If you are one of many truckers, you grab the nearest jug. And then if you are a rude trucker, you toss it out the window. The result is so-called...

Main Street DeKalb Inc.’s sesquicentennial mural project has settled paperwork issues and is searching for the right artist. The mural will be located on the north facade of Eduardo’s Mexican Restaurant, 214 E. Lincoln Highway, and will be unveiled...

A benefit dinner-dance and auction will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Fox Valley Older Adult Center, 1406 Suydam Road in Sandwich, to help cover the mounting medical costs for Richard Kossak, a 17-year-old senior at Somonauk High School. Last winter,...

The DeKalb County Health Department is warning citizens that protection against Culex mosquitoes, the night-prowling, West Nile virus-carrying version, is especially important during August and September. DeKalb County Health Department’s public health...

Lucas Lee of River Grove was walking from his friend’s apartment to a car with an almost empty beer can when he was ticketed for having an open container of alcohol. Ashley Hensel of Mokena was holding an empty cup she said was not hers when she was...