AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT TERENCE HUNT WASHINGTON (AP)—Seizing on public dissatisfaction with government, President Clinton put forward an ambitious plan Tuesday to make the bureaucracy work better and cost less, aiming to save $108 billion and shrink...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JAMES MARTINEZ WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Two white laborers were convicted Tuesday in the burning of a black tourist who said they taunted him with racial slurs, doused him with gasoline and set him on fire. The jury had deliberated...

The Associated Press Players who have hit four home runs in a regular season game with teams and dates: AMERICAN LEAGUE Lou Gehrig, New York, June 3, 1932, consecutive Patrick Serrey, Chicago, July 18, 1948, first game, 11 innings Rocky Colavito, Cleveland,...

NIU's new Theatre Institute will be offering acting technique and performance improvisation courses for school children beginning Sept. 11 and running through Oct. 16. "The theatre department was interested in getting children involved in theatre," said...

The Newman Catholic Student Center, which is the Catholic church for NIU faculty, staff and students, will welcome two new pastoral associates this year. Rose Drance, the coordinator of liturgy and music at the Newman center, started working at the church...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PAUL NEWBERRY COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP)—Two striking union steelworkers were killed on the picket line Tuesday when an 18-wheeler leaving a wire plant ran them down, police said. The truck driver was charged with reckless murder....

The Illinois Board of Higher Education recently reported that faculty at state universities are spending more time on research and undergraduate education is paying the price. The study focused on the distribution of faculty effort in the areas of instruction,...

The DeKalb teachers' strike enters its ninth day today, and while negotiations continue, both sides are still far apart on salaries and other issues. According to both sides, the Board of Education and the DeKalb Classroom Teacher's Association (DCTA),...

Despite the Faculty Senate vote to have a national search to fill the positions of provost and vice president for alumni affairs, NIU President John La Tourette still is not sure if one is necessary. La Tourette said he is waiting two weeks for input...

Studies show a fit and trim NIU has exceeded the goal of the National Health Services on overweight people. The national office has set a goal of no more than 20 percent of the people on campus to be what the office considers overweight by the year 2000....

Sycamore police have arrested a Maple Park man and charged him with aggravated kidnapping, armed violence and armed robbery in connection with a robbery and abduction which took place Saturday morning at the Clark Gas Station, 1655 Sycamore Road. Sycamore...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MATTHEW FORDAHL CHICAGO (AP)—Parents, teachers and bored students are calling a city hot line by the thousands and asking the same, unanswerable question: ‘‘When will schools open?'‘ ‘‘I couldn't tell you,'‘ volunteer...