DeKALB - On Wednesday, Timothy Doll pleaded guilty to the 2023 murder of 15-year-old Gracie Sasso-Cleveland. Sasso-Cleveland’s body was found inside a dumpster off College Avenue near Northern Illinois University's campus.  Doll was a registered...

DeKALB – NIU kicked off its Black Heritage Month events with a lecture from Sundiata Djata, an NIU history professor. Djata presented this year’s Dr. LaVerne Gyant Lecture Series on Tuesday evening.  Djata has a doctorate from the University of...

DeKALB – The NIU department of Industrial and Systems Engineering was awarded a grant to work on technology that would allow brain-to brain-communication. A $600,000 grant from the National Sciences Foundation was approved October 1 to start research...

DeKALB – The sound of Huskie buses driving down DeKalb’s streets are familiar to students and residents alike. But, the way the bus system operates has changed in the last six years.  NIU students and DeKalb residents made over one million...

DeKALB - Next fall, the Rockford Promise program at NIU will open to include Rock Valley College transfers. Previously, students were only able to use the scholarship at NIU if they had a 3.0 GPA, were new graduates of Rockford public high schools...

DeKALB – On Friday, the city moved to dismiss mayoral candidate Linh Nguyen’s appeal against an electoral board ruling that removed her name from the April election ballot.  The appeal was filed after Nguyen was removed from the ballot by DeKalb’s...

DeKALB –  A notice from DeKalb’s Building and Code Enforcement Division was posted on the entrance of Halal Pros located at 817 W. Lincoln Highway.  The notice prohibits people from entering, says the building is “uninhabitable” and is signed...

DeKALB- Jonathan Hurst was found guilty of murder and home invasion almost nine years after Patricia and Robert Wilson were found beaten to death in their Sycamore residence in 2016. The jury entered the courtroom at 4:15 p.m. Thursday with the verdicts....

DeKALB - Students were asked to relocate from Stevenson Towers Residence Hall to the Holmes Student Center Hotel for the weekend to speed up the drying process in the affected areas of the building because of flooding that happened last week. On the...

DeKALB – The first University Council meeting of the year discussed NIU’s budget deficit along with various capital projects on Wednesday. BUDGET DEFICIT NIU Executive Vice President and Provost Laurie Elish-Piper began with an updated timeline...

DeKALB – In August of 2016, Sycamore residents Patricia and Robert Wilson were found murdered in their home. Trial of suspect Jonathan Hurst continued Wednesday at the DeKalb County Courthouse as DNA evidence was presented to the jury. Wednesday...

DeKALB – Jonathan Hurst’s murder trial continued this week with questions regarding evidence collection and technical difficulties. Patricia and Robert Wilson were found beaten to death in their homes on Aug. 14, 2016. Hurst is accused of committing...