Commonwealth Edison recently took steps to decrease power shortages for the northern DeKalb area by adding power lines near Twombly and Dresser Roads. Edison's recently completed electrical feeder line installation in DeKalb has increased the company's...

Lightning early Friday morning struck an annex of NIU's Social Science Research Institute, causing a fire that burned out a main fuse box and wiring. No one was hurt, and the 5:45 a.m. fire was put out quickly by DeKalb firefighters with hand-held extinguishers....

NIU will receive about $2.3 million over the next four years for two grants to enhance research in agricultural genetics and treatment of teenage drug abuse. Agricultural research, totaling $1.7 million over the next three years, is being conducted at...

About 6,400 students enrolled in English composition classes this fall will have the opportunity to use one of 29 new MacIntosh computers. Freshman English Director Robert Self said the computers were a gift from Apple Computer Inc. and are valued at...

A group of DeKalb County residents who favor womens' rights to abortion have formed the DeKalb County Coalition for Choice in response to a Supreme Court ruling on Webster v. Reproductive Health Services which gave states the power to restrict state-funded...

These past few months have made political history. Our values have been questioned. Our rights have been questioned. But who would think that in a society where you get equal pay for equal for equal work, no matter what color, sex or god you pray to that...

Happy hour at your local watering hole could become just another hour if a bill passed by the General Assembly is signed by Gov. James Thompson. Specifically, the proposed amendment to the present Liquor Control Act would prohibit taverns from offering...

NIU students employed with the university will feel their wallets thicken, and student employers might find an increase in job applications after NIU President John La Tourette has approved a 40-cent minimum wage increase for student employees. The long-awaited...

University Police are looking for a suspect who is wanted for indecent exposure. UPs said the alleged offender is a white male about 43 years of age. According to a description of the suspect, he has brown hair, balding on top, brown frame glasses, lenses...

Although the crackdown on Chinese students by a communistic government diminished any hope of a peaceful movement toward democracy, the idea of a democratic China remains a possibility, said NIU political scientist Brantly Womack in a lecture Tuesday...

Labels. Everything in this world seems to have some sort of a label. And I'm not talking the kind of labels on your aspirin bottles. I mean the kind that just recently got a priest in a bit of a tiff with some other members of the Catholic Church because...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case in October originating from Rockford which will determine if states have the right to enforce regulations on abortion clinics. Dr. Richard Ragsdale of Rockford lost his lease to operate out of Rockford Memorial...