About 125 employees at Del Monte Food's tray pack division were told Thursday that their division was permanently closing, leaving them out of work. Employees working in the company's "Vegetable Classics" division were laid off in September, but were...

NIU officials must convince outgoing Gov. James Thompson today that a Rockford graduate studies center should be located on the city's eastern outskirts or lose grip on state money earmarked for start-up funds. The site, located on East State Street by...

The transplanted University Health Services are healthy again. And the medical bill is $16,695. Asbestos was removed from an electrical vault on the Holmes Student Center's second floor during the holiday break. The second floor is the service's temporary...

There is no room for military science teachers on NIU's Faculty Senate. A request from a former dean to extend membership to ROTC teachers failed in the senate last week. "The senate would have had to revise the bylaws," said senate President J. Carroll...

The transplanted University Health Services are healthy again. And the medical bill is $16,695. Asbestos was removed from an electrical vault on the Holmes Student Center's second floor during the holiday break. The second floor is the service's temporary...

President George Bush and Congress can use force if Saddam Hussein does not pull out of Kuwait Tuesday, but DeKalb residents want him to know they don't want to go to war. A resolution calling for a peaceful settlement in the Gulf crisis will be presented...

NIU students got a taste of being designated drivers. The NIU student chapter of the Illinois Public Health Association arranged the first designated driver night at McCabe's, 323 E. Lincoln Hwy., last Friday. The night was a class project for Allied...

Since Kevin was young, he has been fascinated with the military and the war that's often needed to achieve peace. A precocious child with an ability to read quickly, he'd devour whatever books he could get his hands on. And for the most part, those books...

Jerry Pettibone is back in DeKalb Friday to meet with his former assistant coaches, his players and the media before returning to his new stomping grounds in Oregon. Two days after accepting the football head coaching duties at Oregon State University,...

The Board of Regents spent about seven hours behind closed doors while visiting NIU this week. The Regents gathered for a two-part executive session on Wednesday and Thursday. During executive sessions, the meeting is closed to the media, the public and...

It's going to be more expensive to drink next year. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will be collecting a new floor tax on alcohol and cigarettes beginning Jan. 1, 1991. The new tax, commonly referred to as a "sin tax," is designed to tax luxuries...