School improvement and budget cuts were on the mind of the District 428 school board at its regular meeting Tuesday night. The school district will have to cut between $700,000 and $1.4 million, said MeriAnn Besonen, assistant superintendent of business...

Illinois offers college students and low-income families the opportunity to become part of a program that will pay electric and/or gas bills. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program is a public aid program administrated by the state. There are 30...

Retailers and lawmakers are tightening the grip on pseudoephedrine products after an anti-meth law was introduced earlier this year. The Methamphetamine Manufacturing Chemical Retail Sale Control Act, which went into effect in Illinois at the start of...

The city of Sycamore doled out $28,000 to three different organizations at Monday’s city council meeting. The Voluntary Action Center, well-known for the Meals on Wheels program, received the most with $17,000. Ellen Rogers, associate director of the...

DeKalb’s stray animals will spend their orphan days in luxury at the new TAILS adoption facility. "We are going from an old farm house to a state of the art facility," volunteer Jon Koffenberger said. TAILS found families for 600 cats in the two years...

Despite worldwide concerns over terrorism, DeKalb officials said the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport, 3232 Pleasant St., is as safe as it can be. Concerns were raised after the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that DTMA and other similar airports represented...

Jack Frost left his off-season temporarily to make a sweep through DeKalb last night, and he’s expected to stay until tomorrow. DeKalb residents found themselves under an overnight freeze warning last night, with temperatures expected to drop into the...

DeKalb police are searching for several attackers following a stabbing outside a bar early Friday morning. At about 2:04 a.m. police responded to a report of a fight taking place outside the parking lot of Starbusters Bar & Grill, 930 Pappas Drive....

A single-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a 29-year-old man on Suydam Road is under investigation. DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller pronounced Dennis Pence, last of Leland, dead at 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning at the scene of the accident. The coroner’s...

Cavel General Manager Jim Tucker said a recent story by The Associated Press about the slaughter of 41 wild mustangs last week was blown out of proportion. The AP reported that slaughtering the horses might have violated an agreement the previous horse...

A change of plans by the Main Street DeKalb mural committee means one less downtown mural. A maintenance fund will be established in place of the first mural, said Dan Grych, owner of the DeKalb Gallery, 161 E. Lincoln Highway, and chair of the mural...

New wayside horns tested by the City of DeKalb on Friday may be the answer to years of complaints regarding loud train horns. City Engineer Joel Maurer mounted the wayside horn atop his Chevrolet Tahoe at the Second Street railroad crossing and registered...