Low-income homeowners in DeKalb may soon have help painting their houses from the city. The DeKalb City Council will review a supplement to the Enhanced Property Maintenance Program that will help low-income property owners paint their homes. The program...

A one-vehicle accident on Twombly Road Wednesday evening left a DeKalb woman dead. Desiree Lundin, 19, was traveling west on Twombly Road in her 1993 Pontiac Grand Prix when it left the road and rolled over, said Danny Lee, DeKalb County deputy coroner....

DeKalb police are investigating a Wednesday night home invasion in which several armed men entered an apartment and attacked several NIU students. A report of the incident in the 800 block of Edgebrook Drive came in at 11:12 p.m., police said. About six...

This is far from where Nelson’s life began. He was raised Lutheran in DeKalb all his life before he began seeking different spiritual answers to his life. "I started studying Buddhism and did some meditating," Nelson said. "I always felt like there...

A Senate Democrat blasted the Bush administration Wednesday over plans to raise ticket fees for airline passengers - a budget proposal that would pay for a host of homeland security programs. The proposed White House budget, released earlier this week,...

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood advised late last month that the health information of victims in emergency situations is public body and should not be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The issue arose after local...

President Bush said Wednesday Medicare is next on the government's fix-it list because the health care plan for the elderly and disabled, like Social Security, is facing financial stress with the retirements of baby boomers. Administration officials said...

Wake up. Go to class. Then go to work. After work, go back for another class. Then go home and study. Go to sleep, only to wake up and do it all over again. Shaquita Booker’s everyday routine sounds all too familiar for many working students at NIU....

A massive multi-decade development project on East Lincoln Highway was revealed to the public with mixed reviews Wednesday. The DeKalb Plan Commission met with Vandewalle and Associates, a Wisconsin-based consulting firm, to review an initial working...

Low costs and accessibility have made inhalant substance abuse most appealing to younger crowds, despite low occurrences in DeKalb, experts said. "The amount of inhalant abuse in DeKalb is a very small percentage, but we are seeing it in some of our young...

After building his own business from the ground up, local business man Earl Gable said he is ready to run the city of Sycamore. "I take a lot of pride in this community," Gable said, "and if people don’t like what’s going on, then they should vote...

The DeKalb County Marines chose two of the area’s top police officers as Officers of the Year for their work organizing the Major Case Squad. Kevin Hickey, DeKalb County Sheriff’s chief deputy, and DeKalb Police Lt. Jim Kayes started the Major Case...