Currently employed: U.S. Representative, Illinois 14th district, since 1987. Ranking Republican on House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs committee. Other experience:Teacher, Yorkville High school. Campaign issues: Hastert recently introduced a...

Differing opinions on Saturday's plane crash - the first fatality the DeKalb airport has seen in probably 20 years - paint the pilot from being competent to careless. Mark Morgan's abilities are being questioned because it is unclear if the home-built...

Currently employed: Studying for law degree at NIU. Other experience: NIU Board of Regents student representative, 1989-90. Campaign issues: Tisch is pro-choice and favors continued state support for social welfare programs. Tisch wants to consolidate...

Brett Hooghkirk also will be charged with aggravated battery as pretrial motions in the Lisa Garretson murder case continued Friday. Because Hooghkirk admitted during his video-taped confession to hitting Garretson's head with a clothes iron, DeKalb County...

A 13-year NIU faculty member has been appointed to the position of acting associate dean of the College of Professional Studies for the second time. Sharon Miller was appointed to the position after James Lankford advanced to acting dean of the college....

Experience: chairman of NIU Young Deomocrats, vice-chairman of the DeKalb Democratic party and Precinct 10 committeeman Campaign issues: work toward a shopping mall in DeKalb, for the $1.9 million sale of DeKalb County farmland to a New York-based developer...

In a Houston courtroom Saturday, 33-year-old Denise Wells was acquitted of causing a disturbance at a concert. She could have been fined $200. What makes this case unique is that Wells' specific action was to use the men's restroom when the women's restroom...

Currently employed: State Senator, 38th district since 1983. Senate chairman of Senate Energy and Environment committee. Other experience: Lawyer, Peru Illinois. Campaign Issues: Welch is promoting his experience in the General Assembly and points to...

NIU officials are not releasing the names of possible sites for a Rockford center because they fear the information could spur competition and send prices soaring for the sites. Committee spokesman Tom Montiegel, NIU vice president for Development and...

Drop Cougars in three games NIU's volleyball team, alias "The Broom Crew," came as close to a perfect sweep as possible Friday. Not only did the Huskies register their 17th three-game sweep, they almost kept Chicago State University off the board in a...

Mike Burt prefers to be an optimist, so he will take the approach that there's no place for his NIU women's swimming and diving team to go, but up. Four-time Midwest independent regional champion Illinois State University swamped the Huskies by a 194-108...

Experience: member of the Student Association, graduate of the National Leadership Training Center, the Presidential Classroom in Washington D.C., Illinois Leadership training and the HOBY Institute. Campaign issues: improve county transportation by pushing...