Potential customers of downtown businesses are driving away without spending a dime because they can’t find a place to park, business owners said. “If customers can’t park in front on the street; they won’t come in,” said Cindy Wickness, owner...

Community members in DeKalb now can locate sex offenders more easily. The DeKalb County State’s Attorney’s office now has a link on its Web site where addresses of sex offenders are highlighted in relation to nearby schools. The information is generated...

Restaurants that sell liquor may face an early cutoff time for liquor sales. At the last DeKalb City Council meeting, members heard a consideration that proposed a change to make Class E liquor license holders cease liquor sales an hour earlier. Class...

Railroad crossing vehicle accidents killed 24 people in Illinois last year - enough to rank the state fourth in the nation, according to the Federal Railroad Administration. That figure is quite good, considering there are more than 8,000 public railroad...

The mobility of smoke and the lethal gases it contains makes smoke more dangerous than the fire that created it. Smoke can travel throughout a building in a short period of time, while a fire may be contained in only one room, said Reuben Nelson, assistant...

Two purposes were served at last night’s open mic night at The House, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. Sam “Sam-I-Am” Simmons said the event was for all NIU students to have a creative outlet. The event also was an album release party. The album, “NIU...

Public access television channels offer the public a view of what goes on in communities by televising various government meetings. The public access channel set up by Comcast deals with government issues. These channels are technically called PEG, a...

The 160-year-old building first designated as the Pacific Hotel stands today as Briody Enterprises, a real estate office at 501 W. Main St. in Genoa. The building was declared a historical site in 1972 by the DeKalb County Historical Society. As early...

Scientists still are not sure whether cell phone use clearly is linked to brain cancer. Cell phones’ electromagnetic radiation frequency ranges from about 850 to 1900 megahertz. This type of radiation is classified as non-ionizing radiofrequency energy,...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are campaigning against alleged inhumane treatment of chickens by suppliers to Kentucky Fried Chicken. PETA supporters include celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Paul McCartney, Def Jam founder Russell Simmons,...

College students can avoid most Halloween troubles if they don’t drink too much, police said. “Overindulgence about covers it for college students,” Detective Don Gladden of the DeKalb Police Department said. “They have a costume party and have...

The speed tables in DeKalb, notably on Hillcrest Drive, were instituted to help reduce an area speeding problem. The Hillcrest Drive tables were installed in August 1999 by DeKalb Traffic Engineering. “Speeds were high; we wanted to lower them for the...