DeKalb County 4-H members are preparing for the annual 4-H fair which will have displays ranging from electronics to food. 4-H is the youth educational program of Cooperative Extension Service, working with the University of Illinois and the United States...

WASHINGTON—The man can talk. Any doubts about President Clinton's ability to hold his own in any conversation should now be ended. By all accounts, his performance in the non-stop discussions at the Tokyo summit of major industrialized countries and...

If cable companies and broadcasters do not reach a retransmission consent agreement soon, cable subscribers could miss the season premieres of their favorite TV shows this fall. Retransmission consent, according to Andy Bast, general manager for Warner...

The athletic department is prepared to meet NIU President John La Tourette's $500,000 budget reduction despite last semester's withdrawal of a proposal to increase student fees. The proposal would have increased student fees $4.01 per credit hour or $60.15...

The Board of Regents is expected to approve the elimination of 17 NIU academic programs at its meeting Wednesday and Thursday at NIU. The 17 programs to be deleted from NIU's curriculum were cited by the Illinois Board of Higher Education's Priorities,...

BOSTON—"Wouldn't it be nice if it just dropped like a stone?" My friend offers this as a purely wistful thought. The "it" we are talking about is "The Last Brother." We are both too well-versed in the ways of the marketplace to expect that a flap about...

University Police are investigating an incident in which at least two students attempted to sell back books at the Village Commons Bookstore that had been stolen from the University Bookstore. According to UP Detective Todd Henert, two males sold back...

The NIU music department is losing an instructor this summer due in part to budget problems. After spending six years as coordinator of jazz studies, Assistant Professor of Music Antonio Garcia will be leaving NIU at the end of the summer to become an...

WASHINGTON—Lee Brown first made a name for himself when, as Atlanta's chief of police, he oversaw the 1979 investigation of the killing of 28 black children and young men. He later took his "community policing" concepts to Houston, where he was so successful...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER DAVID CRARY SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP)—As many as 32,000 people could be forced into a perilous dash into Sarajevo if advancing Serb forces capture a strategic mountain overlooking the city's airport, a U.N. official said...

It seems as if Mother Nature has been playing a nasty trick on us lately. The heavy showers the Midwest has been experiencing are supposed to occur in April, not July, so the question arises—Are these abnormal rains a fluke, or are weather patterns...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education will be meeting today to discuss administrative functions, support systems and academic calendars of Illinois public universities. The IBHE will be directing its Priorities, Quality and Productivity initiative toward...