DeKalb firefighters and police evacuated all five floors of DeKalb Plaza Apartment building B, 1325 Lincoln Hwy., Monday evening after a fire causing $4,000 worth of damage broke out on the top floor. DeKalb Fire Chief Jeff Long said DeKalb police responded...

The University Planning Commission has released a master plan of the recommended renovations to take place at NIU through the year 2000 and beyond. The Campus Master Plan was prepared by the Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, Mass., who established an...

NIU students walking past the Holmes Student Center on their way to afternoon classes today will see the beginning of a 24-hour marathon. No, the Olympics have not been moved to DeKalb for the day. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow will help begin a charity teeter-tottering...

Many "Unity in Diversity" week activities for today will center around the theme of physical awareness. The activities include a handicapped simulation, in which campus personalities will experience how life appears to a handicapped individual for one...

An armed convict who escaped from the Pontiac Correctional Center and took four hostages was apprehended by local police Monday evening in a rural area about five miles north of Sycamore. Police captured fugitive Jessie Donald Sumner, 51, Stanford, at...

DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow denounced 7th Ward Alderman Mark Powell Monday and refused to meet with the councilman. The council denied support for Powell's request that the mayor hold monthly meetings with aldermen. "As of eight weeks ago, I told him (Powell)...

The DeKalb City Council voted 5 to 2 for pay increases for aldermen and mayor at Monday night's meeting. Under the increases, the mayor will receive $16,200 instead of $13,200 per year and aldermen in wards 2, 4 and 6 will receive $5,200 instead of $3,600...

Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves will address the "mission and future" of NIU at a special Faculty Assembly meeting Wednesday, said Judy Bischoff, University Council executive secretary. Bischoff said Groves also will talk about NIU's budget...

The addition of a tenth bus route to the Huskie Bus Line's present daily service was discussed by the Student Association Mass Transit Board Monday, but no decision was made on the proposed route. The transit board did decide, however, to add a bus stop...

Designed to keep quality faculty and attract new teachers to NIU, five professorships garnered by NIU's College of Business this semester will supplement the salaries of accountancy and marketing faculty, said Richard Brown, College of Business dean....

DeKalb city officials and NIU administrators are at odds concerning a fire protection contract supplied by the city, and city officials warn next year NIU will be asked to pay an increased amount for the services. The $237,848 price paid for fire protection...

Unification of the NIU black community is the main objective of newly-elected Black Student Union president, Tracy Deis. Deis, a sophomore English major, won the position in the BSU officers' elections Sept. 22. Other elected officers include Vice President...