The NIU Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality will host a symposium featuring papers students submitted 1-4 p.m. May 6 in the Holmes Student Center, Regency Room.The 2016 Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Student Symposium...
The Digital Convergence Lab will host a video design camp called “Just for Girls” that will focus on empowering young girls.The camp will teach girls how to create and play their own video games 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 20-24.The sessions will include...
The following was taken directly from area police and fire department records, or from DeKalb County court records. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.April 14• Willie Merchant, 21, of DeKalb, was charged with...
NIU UNICEF and the House Cafe will hold a Benefit Concert for the children of UNICEF 7:30 p.m. April 29 at the House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway.The bands performing include: All The Wine! as Against Me!, 100 Aker Wood as Alkaline Trio, Nobelium 102...
The DeKalb Chamber of Commerce will hold a Memorial Day Parade on May 30.Parade check in and line up will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the corner of N. Third Street and Locust Street, according to a Chamber of Commerce news release. The parade will start at...
The Blumen Gardens is having its annual tool sharpening between 9 a.m-6 p.m. through the end of this month at their Gift & Garden Shop.The Blumen Gardens’ landscaping staff will sharpen any kind of tool, except a sewing shear, to help prepare you...
Ten high school students from northern Illinois schools are competing in the Illinois High School Association Journalism Sectionals today in DuSable Hall.The students are competing in broadcast news, news writing, review writing, advertising, theme development,...
Mo Pitney, country singer and Illinois native, will be at the Egyptian Theatre for the 102.3 The Coyote’s Fan Jam.Pitney’s 2014 single “Country” made the Top 40 list that year. His most recent single “Boy and a Girl Thing,” was released late...
Rep. Bob Pritchard (R-Hinckley) talks about the likelihood of there being no Illinois budget before July 1, 2015, at the Board of Trustees meeting on June 18, 2015.
The following was taken directly from area police and fire department records, or from DeKalb County court records. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.
April 10
• Casey M. Zelko, 20, of DeKalb, was charged with consumption of alcohol as a minor.
• Jerrvon Ewing, 22, of DeKalb, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
• Jovon Young, 22, of Aurora, was charged with no driver’s license.
• Dana L. Boyd, 28, of Sycamore, was charged with retail theft.
April 11
• Cortez Wraggs, 21, of Chicago, was charged with obstructing identification and resisting a peace officer.
• Arricka S. Kizer, 25, of DeKalb, was charged with illegal insurance card.
April 12
• Mercedes E. Foster, 26, of DeKalb, was charged with possession of cannabis.
• Michael N. Thornhill, 28, of DeKalb, was charged with manufacturing/delivery of cannabis more than 500 grams, manufacturing/delivery of cannabis more than 500 grams near a school, manufacturing/delivery of cannabis 30-500 grams, manufacturing/delivery of controlled substances, possession of drug paraphernalia, two counts of possession of cannabis, two counts of possession of controlled substance and conspiracy to sell to a minor.
April 13
• James S. Mayes, 31, of DeKalb, was charged with two counts of criminal trespassing to land and two counts of domestic battery.
• Dwaine B. Hampton, 18, of DeKalb, was charged with two counts of domestic battery.
• Latrell L. Hightower, 19, of DeKalb, was charged with two counts of domestic battery.
A tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Muirhead Farmhouse will take place from 1-5 p.m. May 1 at 42W814 Rohrsen Rd. in Hampshire. The tour will be hosted by the Central Community School District 301’s Middle School and High School’s Music and Performing...
Jack McCullough, 76, of Seattle, has been released from jail with no bond after being charged with the murder of Sycamore 7-year-old Maria Ridulph.On Sept. 14, 2012, McCullough, a retired security guard, was convicted in Ridulph's 1957 killing and...
