Thirteen of 20 wanted suspects were arrested Wednesday after DeKalb Police implemented Operation Surprise!.The sweep included narcotics investigations after “complaints of illegal drug trafficking, and [it] focused on the street-level unlawful sale...
DeKalb’s roller derby team already knows the basics. Now, they’re just trying to find a permanent home.The Barbed Wire Betties, DeKalb’s women’s roller derby team, is in the beginning stages of fundraising for a material on which they can skate....
DeKalb | Two Arizona men are being held after being found with 48 pounds of cocaine.Terance T. Prigge, 53, of Phoenix, and Matthew B. Gruender, 52, of Phoenix, are being held on bond of $10 million each.At 10:26 p.m. Sept. 21, DeKalb police received a...
Nathan Myers, 29, of DeKalb, was arrested after allegedly using an aluminum pole as a weapon near Travel Inn, 1116 W. Lincoln Highway.DeKalb Police Sgt. Craig Woodruff said a small argument started to escalate between Myers and another person Thursday...
Police are following leads on two missing DeKalb teens.The teens have been missing since Sept. 23, and they were last seen in DeKalb.Sean Staats, 16, and Mikayla Dick, 15, both of DeKalb, are friends, said Sgt. Craig Woodruff. Staats is 5-feet-8 and weighs...
With the police department’s departure from the municipal building as it moves into a new station, the facility will be left with no security for the first time since its construction in 1967.Possible adjustments of staff and renovations to the building...
Hotel owners and managers should expect to hear from the city as early as this week.At Monday’s City Council meeting, the council approved an ordinance amending the code for hotel and motel inspections and licensing. The ordinance program is for inspection...
Chants of “Go home, Sycamore” could be heard from Huskie Stadium Friday, but that didn’t stop Sycamore High School from taking home a trophy for winning a football game for the sixth year in a row.The Castle Challenge, organized by Castle Bank,...
The city’s lack of hotel “standards” was the topic of both the committee of the whole and regular meeting of the City Council Monday night.City attorney Dean Frieders called a proposed ordinance a “hotel and motel inspection program,” and said...
Eight years since it started, a letter to the mayor and a love for kites has kept Kite Fest flying strong.Kite Fest, put together by the DeKalb County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau with help from Chicago Kite, was held Sunday on NIU’s North 40 field,...
There is not one but three owners of Rosy’s Roadhouse, 930 Pappas Drive, and they work together “kind of like clockwork.”The owners purchased Starbusters in April and spent most of their summer working to fix up and reinvent the longtime bar.The...
William "Billy" Curl has motioned to withdraw his guilty plea in the murder of NIU student Toni Keller.The four-page, handwritten motion states the plea should be withdrawn because "the prosecutor had threatened to go after Mr. Curl's family if he did...
