School District 428 will see the end of an era after the 2005 school board elections. Suzanne Lambrecht, DeKalb School Board vice president and 11-and-a-half-year board member, is voluntarily stepping aside. Lambrecht said she is looking forward to spending...

"It’s important to know that the field of candidates is one of the best in district history," said Andy Small, an appointed board member running for election. Of the three candidates interviewed, two have had careers in the field of education. There...

DeKalb police are searching for two men who attempted to rob a man at gunpoint while he was at his car Friday morning. Police said the pair approached the man in a parking lot in the 1100 block of Ridge Drive at 12:18 a.m. One of the suspects displayed...

A Kirkland woman found dead in her bedroom Saturday morning may have died from vehicle-related injuries the previous night. Police said at about 1:45 a.m. the daughter of Crystal Witte, 45, found her mother in a Kirkland alley between North Third Street...

The 2004 annual report of the DeKalb police department will be reviewed at Monday’s DeKalb City Council meeting. Criminal sexual assaults are up from 30 in 2003 to 48 in the last year. "In review, a majority of those incidents involved situations where...

Del Rio Flowers and Gifts went out of business in early March after opening a year ago. With the closing, some said the flower shop, 221 W. Lincoln Highway, had trouble because there was already a heavy saturation of florists in the area. "When he opened...

The automotive industry has been working overtime for the past few months. Consider this: Ford has redone the Focus and axed the Taurus, replacing it with the Five Hundred, Aston Martin has the new DB9, Buick replaced both the Regal and Century models...

The Union Pacific RailRoad near Peace Road in DeKalb was the scene of a train derailment early Tuesday morning. Two locomotives and one stabilizing car loaded with rocks went off the tracks about 9:40 a.m., said John Bromley, director of public affairs...

The two DeKalb mayoral candidates squared off in a Northern Star-sponsored debate at the Holmes Student Center on Wednesday night. The debate focused on issues such as economic development, the liquor commission and a number of student issues. Incumbent...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - While some states and even entire countries have severely restricted smoking, most Illinois cities are barred by state law from regulating tobacco use. Only 21 Illinois cities are currently allowed to set their own smoking rules....

A 23-year-old DeKalb man has been arrested following a stabbing Tuesday night in the 800 block of West Taylor Street. DeKalb police charged Joseph Ward, of 427 Normal Road, with three counts of aggravated battery after he allegedly stabbed three people...

Promises made and promises kept. That is the campaign slogan for Sycamore Mayor John Swedberg. Swedberg, who is running for re-election April 5, is a fifth-generation Sycamore resident who served as 3rd Ward Alderman prior to running for mayor in 2001...