Devon Butler, a linebacker on the NIU football team, spoke to the public on Friday for the first time since being shot off campus on April 5. Butler had been recovering at Kishwaukee Hospital, then at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford before...

Even though Colin Goddard experienced the worst school shooting in U.S. history, he did not let the tragedy overtake his life. Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech shootings, came to NIU Wednesday night to present a documentary he made about his harrowing...

DeKALB | The two NIU students charged with shooting NIU linebacker Devon Butler are "essentially expelled from the university and banned from the campus." Brad Hoey, team leader of Media Relations and Internal Communications, said Mark Orozco and Richard...

Bond was set at $1 million each Thursday morning for the two NIU students charged with shooting football linebacker Devon Butler. Mark Orozco, 24, and Richard Van Arsdale III, 20, appeared in court via closed-circuit television Thursday morning and have...

I didn't think double negatives were allowed in a sentence, but nine states, in layman's terms, are proposing laws to not allow campuses to not allow guns (actually that is a triple-negative). Granted, it is worded more eloquently than that, but the proposed...

DeKalb Police are investigating a shooting that took place at 11:16 p.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of North 10th Street. DeKalb Police Sgt. Robert Redel said police have some leads on a suspect, but no one is in custody at this time. Redel said the suspect...

PLANO | A Kendall County Sheriff's Deputy was involved in a shooting after a man fled from a hit-and-run Saturday. According to a press release, Bjorn S. Roland, 40, of Plano, fled on foot from the scene after being involved in an accident. While the...