A man was pinned between a parked car and a pizza delivery vehicle shortly after 9 p.m. Monday night in front of Grant Towers North. Witnesses reported the man, whose name has not been released, was walking behind a parked Chevy Camaro when the pizza...

Amnesia nightclub received a $4,500 fine and 90-day suspension for liquor violations that occurred the weekend of Dec. 4. The establishment, 1000 W. Lincoln Highway, only needs to serve 45 days of its suspension, which started Monday. It will have to...

The DeKalb County Landfill will be able to increase the amount of methane gas it burns if the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency approves its permit request. The landfill currently burns 350 cubic feet of the gas per minute but seeks to increase...

More than 6,000 people gathered Friday night at the Convocation Center for a honky-tonk sing-a-long. Brooks & Dunn fans flocked to the arena for the first concert sellout in the arena’s history. From the start, Brooks & Dunn encouraged the audience...

Blair Hull brought his campaign for Illinois’ democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate to NIU’s campus on Friday. Hull was invited by the NIU College Democrats and the DeKalb County Democrats. Speaking to a crowd of about 30 students, professors...

T-Mobile customers soon may recognize an improvement in their cell phone reception, and the city of DeKalb may pocket $1,400 a month if new cell phone antennae are erected. T-Mobile is working with the city to put antennae on the Dresser Road water tower....

Lovers of the clarinet are invited to NIU’s third annual Clarinet Cornucopia, a day-long celebration of the woodwind instrument. The event is from 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Music Building. The concerts at 11:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. are free...

Shelter seemed a distant option for the litter of 14 puppies thrown out into the snow to freeze to death earlier this winter. Three of the dalmatian/Border collie mix pups died in the cold. The others were rescued, thanks to the Taking Animals Into Loving...

Motorists, be on the lookout for a man dressed in blue. He is walking along the highways and roads of the 70th Illinois Congressional District going from house to house - campaigning. Joe Wiegand, a DeKalb County Board member and a Republican running...

DUI arrests by DeKalb police have increased 87 percent in the last five years, police records showed. The 208 arrests in 2003 also represent a 35 percent increase over 2002. The statistic does not necessarily reflect an increase in drunk driving, DeKalb...

The Feb. 9 fire that resulted in the largest backdraft in U.S. history may have originated in a basement crawl space at the St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, 327 S. Main St. in Sycamore, Sycamore Fire Chief Bill Riddle said. The crawl space held the...

The DeKalb City Council will consider allowing the former Bromley Hall, 830 Edgebrook Drive, to be renovated into a rooming house or apartment building. The building owner has been working to repair the building that was damaged in a 1995 fire and has...