Both sides involved in a dispute over firemen's wage increases said the matter is unlikely to be resolved quickly. The City of DeKalb and The International Association of Firefighters Local 1236 are in arbitration concerning a retroactive wage increase...

CHICAGO (AP)—A circuit judge found a 50-year-old transient mentally unfit Wednesday to stand trial in the slaying of a Roman Catholic nun. Cook County Judge Robert J. Collins ordered Karl Caldwell, charged with murder in the Oct. 14 beating death of...

Illinois is still in the running for the Superconducting Super Collider as meetings were held this week to inform the public of residential areas which would be affected by the project. Illinois is one of the seven candidates for the site of the SSC....

Last semester's request to remove The Thunderbolt, a racially derogatory newspaper, from Founders Memorial Library's shelves was denied. Carroll Varner, assistant director for Technical Services at Founders, said the newspaper will remian on library shelves....

A representative from the environmental group Greenpeace will lead a discussion Monday about issues dealing with environmental and animal cruelty. The Student Committee for Animal Welfare invited Greenpeace representative Joe Kintigh to discuss and familiarize...

Activities marking this year's Financial Aid Week begin next Monday at NIU. The week, designed to acquaint high school and college students nationwide on state, federal and private grants available to needy students to help them complete their education,...

PORTALES, N.M. (AP)—A homeless Chicago man offered a chance at a new life in rural New Mexico says he doesn't mind the hard work or long hours his job requires. Harold Thomas, 35, arrived in Portales Jan. 16 to work for Roy and Ethel Gilman. The couple...

BOSTON (AP)—People have taken aspirin since ancient times, but the ubiquitous white tablet has become a glamour drug of modern medicine, good for a growing list of seemingly unrelated ills. "It's an absolutely amazing drug," says Harold J. DeMonaco,...

NIU's Student Legal Assistance office is holding seminars to help students deal with landlord/tenant issues. The seminars are held each year for people renting apartments for the first time, said Lynn Richards, legal assitance attorney. What to look for...

Students will decide who will fill six positions in the Student Association senate and decide whether the Illinois Student Association referendum passes during today's senate elections. Passage of the ISA referendum, which would increase each students'...

Although sections of the roof at McMurry Hall have been repaired, other parts still leak, causing water damage to certain areas of the building. "The roof is leaking in some parts, but not in the area we replaced. When the roof leaks in one area, water...

A state committee will study college partnership possibilities in an attempt to get minority students through school. The Illinois General Assembly's Joint Committee on Minority Student Access to Higher Education has tentatively scheduled a hearing for...