CHICAGO (AP) - Front-runner Richard M. Daley, flush with money and endorsements, and a wide lead in the polls, campaigned Sunday in the strongholds of chief mayoral rival Timothy Evans, seeking to boost his standing among black voters. With just two days...

Two NIU students were arrested Thursday by DeKalb Police after one of the students sold cocaine to another. Paul R. Batchen, 24, 1120 Varsity Blvd., is charged with unlawful delivery of more than 15 grams of a controlled substance. Batchen posted $50,000...

DeKalb's 6th Ward residents will be better-represented by aldermanic challenger Jamie Pennington. Pennington, a 21-year-old junior political science major, plans to represent his constituents based on the point that "only about 10 percent of what the...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Shellfire hit Beirut's airport Sunday, and radio reports said the home of the U.S. ambassador was struck during fierce duels between Syrian gunners and Christian army units. Police reported 13 people were killed. Thunderous explosions...

Alaska might have been the 49th state admitted to the union, but according to the National Education Association, that state ranks first in public school teacher salaries. The average salary for a teacher in Alaska this year is $41,693. Connecticut, New...

Details leading to the connection of two area youths with a crime spree that caused about $27,000 in damages in the last six months still are sketchy. University Police Lt. Ron Williams declined to release information that led to the boys' involvement...

Increased interest in NIU's chapter of Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students (BACCHUS) last fall has encouraged the organization to continue its efforts to educate NIU about responsible drinking. The program was started...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinios Commerce Commission cleared the way Wednesday for a final decision on a 6.9 percent, $60.5 million rate boost for Illinois Power Co. after dismissing last-minute questions that threatened to swell the increase to...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The leader of Moslems in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and his aide were shot and killed Wednesday, five weeks after the imam distanced himself from Iran's death sentence for author Salman Rushdie. Imam Abdullah Al Ahdal,...

The Boston Globe BOSTON—Not long ago, in a London hotel room, I heard one of those very British television interviews with a "royal." This time it was Princess Anne talking about her role as president of the Save the Children charity. In the middle...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday scrutinized an icon of American law it created 23 years ago - the famous Miranda warnings police are required to give to criminal suspects. To be decided by July is the validity of a warning used by Hammond,...

On a July evening seven years ago, I was a few hundred feet in the air headed south from Rockford in a small, four-seater plane. It was a trip I had been anticipating for months, arranged by a neighbor of mine whose friend owned the little plane. Knowing...