Almost four months after The Dungeon opened, the city is looking to close it down. "We received police reports and decided to pursue the case," said City Attorney Margo Ely. A petition was prepared by Ely to try to revoke the license for the teen club,...

A 911 hang-up call that led to a seven-hour standoff ended around 5 a.m. Wednesday morning with a man arrested and taken into custody. DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 10 p.m. Tuesday and traced the call to an address in Lee, Ill.,...

No progress was made on the controversial Savannah Green issue at the DeKalb Plan Commission meeting Wednesday night. Russ Farnum, principle planner for DeKalb, began the meeting by relaying the request of the subdivision’s developer to continue the...

Kishwaukee College faculty members discussed topics for a possible renegotiation at a union committee meeting Tuesday. "Our plan has always been expensive," said Dan Brunsworth, a psychology instructor at Kishwaukee. Brunsworth said they had a history...

The days of waiting by your window for the cable guy to install your cable television finally are over. There’s a new business in town called Solutions Now Inc. that provides a wide variety of services for both personal and business-related tasks. It...

Developers First Rockford Group continue to look toward DeKalb’s retail future and hope to bring additional national retailers to the area. Next on the list could be Best Buy. The group’s director of retail development, Pankaj Mahajan, said the organization...

If the purchase of duct tape and plastic sheeting are a measure of preparedness for a terrorist attack, then DeKalb does not seem to be prepared. Tom Ridge, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, suggested on Wednesday that U.S. citizens prepare...

The DeKalb Police Department arrested Jamal A. Allen, 26, on charges of motor vehicle burglaries and unlawful use of a credit card. At 6:17 a.m. Monday, the department received a call of burglary to a motor vehicle on Delcy Drive. About the same time,...

All around the board, expenditures seem to outweigh revenues, and as a result, DeKalb is expected to see a deficit for fiscal year 2004. While the next official statement from director of administrative services Linda Wiggins isn’t expected until an...

Area residents are being asked to be aware of a possible scam the DeKalb Police Department is investigating. According to a press release from the department, three incidents have occurred in the northeast part of town, and the targets mainly have been...

A $202,000 provision in the appropriations bill passed by Congress on Feb. 13 will help provide a new community center in DeKalb. The bill combined several smaller appropriation bills that previously would have passed separately. Many of these smaller...

Hospitals across the state are gearing up to vaccinate the state’s health care workers to prevent an outbreak of smallpox as a result of a bio-terrorist attack, yet legal problems are holding up the state’s plans. DeKalb County Health Department public...