Peter Kaminski, an NIU marketing professor, was appointed the new acting associate dean to the College of Business. Kaminski succeeds David Graf, who recently was named acting dean, to fill a vacancy left by longtime business dean Richard Brown, who moved...

Customers of Warner Cable will endure one more round of channel realignments and rate changes next week in order for Warner to comply with new FCC regulations. The channel realignment will create a new basic service as well as a new standard service....

AP SCIENCE WRITER LEE SIEGEL PASADENA, Calif. (AP)—Engineers suspect Mars Observer's main clock may be stuck, which could cause the spacecraft to fly right by the Red Planet, rather than orbit it, the project's manager said Monday. The announcement,...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MARK PORUBCANSKY SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP)—Bosnian Croats gave in Monday to U.N. demands and promised to allow aid this week to reach tens of thousands of Muslims trapped in Mostar, as heavy fighting reportedly raged...

BOSTON—You have to give them stars for consistency. The military regularly manages to resolve matters of human relationships with the delicacy, the finesse, the sheer sensitivity of an assault vehicle on enemy terrain. This time, the Marine Corps looked...

The University Resources for Latinos (URL) office will be sponsoring a cookout Thursday for students involved in the URL mentoring program as a way for them to get acquainted. The picnic will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at 515 Garden Road. "There will...

DeKalb police are investigating the second robbery in two days at the White Hen Pantry, 802 S. Fourth St. The robbery occurred at 12:54 a.m. Monday, less than 24 hours after the convenience store was robbed by a person fitting the same description. As...

With more than 10 construction sites on campus, getting around on foot is hard enough, but now with all the construction workers, parking space has also become a problem. Construction workers were able to purchase blue parking permits this summer, which...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER RICHARD KEIL WASHINGTON (AP)—The government unlocked 30 years of secrets Monday in John F. Kennedy's assassination—from CIA theories of Soviet involvement to a second-hand report that Lee Harvey Oswald boasted to a Russian...

The Egyptian Theater, a DeKalb landmark, soon will be seen in theaters worldwide thanks to the efforts of French film director Renan Polles. Polles has been commissioned by the Louvre Museum in Paris to film a documentary titled "Egyptomania" on Ancient...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JOSEPH FRAZIER MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)—Leftist gunmen holding the vice president and other officials also took nine Nicaraguan journalists captive Sunday, deepening the hostage-taking stalemate with a rival political group. In...

DeKalb Police are investigating two armed robberies that took place Sunday morning and are looking into the possibility that the thefts might have been the work of the same individual. According to DeKalb Police reports, the first robbery took place at...