DeKalb might get three new police officers for the price of one, if a bid to get a federal grant is successful. The DeKalb City Council authorized the submission of a funding application by the police department for a federal grant. This grant, offered...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER TOM STRONG WASHINGTON (AP)—Sen. Paul Simon's balanced budget amendment, scheduled for debate in the coming weeks, picked up the endorsement Wednesday of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The business group had not supported the amendment...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JIM DRINKARD WASHINGTON (AP)—The government's main aid program for students after high school is being robbed of millions of dollars by schools that provide little job training or obtain grants fraudulently from lax managers,...

Are laws protecting women on campus effective? Is there a need for new legislation protecting women from violent crime? The Student Association is going to provide NIU with a chance to ask the U.S. Congress for answers to these questions today and Friday...

Neptune Hall residents will not be tricked on Hallow's Eve provided they have their treats ready—in abundance. For the past five years, Neptune Hall East, West and North has been opening its doors to DeKalb school children on the witches' holiday. Children...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER DEBRA HALE CHICAGO (AP)—A task force that examined events leading to the hanging death of little Joseph Wallace largely exonerated the judges who sent him home to his psychotic mother but said Wednesday the juvenile court system...

Despite a painful, drawn-out process, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reluctantly approved the elimination of the M.A. program in journalism. The LA&S College Curriculum Committee reversed its earlier inaction on the issue and voted to endorse...

Religion took center stage Tuesday night as representatives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam presented basic explanations and entertained questions pertaining to each respective religion. "Dialogue Between Religions" was part of the week-long lineup...

Many people use disabled and unable as synonymous terms, but to stay within this frame of ignorance when relating to the population of disabled people, is to place a handicap on yourself. This is the message five NIU educators shared through a panel discussion...

The Asian-American Association (AAA) will be hosting the Midwest Asian American Student Union (MAASU) leadership conference Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Holmes Student Center. MAASU is an organization of students across the Midwest intent on addressing...

For those of you who reach for the stars, there will be a speaker who will inspire you to shine. Ellen Ochoa, the first and only Latina astronaut, will be speaking at 7 p.m. tonight in the Skyroom of the Holmes Student Center. The event is cosponsored...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MICHAEL FLEEMAN Wildfires driven by searing desert winds devoured more than 57,000 tinder-dry acres in Southern California on Wednesday, destroying at least 220 homes and forcing hundreds to flee in terror from wealthy suburbs...