10 stories you may have missed this weekend
1. Fourteen-year-old Trisha Prabhu of Naperville is on a mission to rid the world of cyberbullying by developing “Rethink,” a pop-up warning that prompts teens to think twice before posting hurtful messages.
2. An on-duty Wheeling police officer struck and killed a pedestrian with his car early Sunday morning, authorities said. The crash remains under investigation.
3. The former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, will be the keynote speaker at Judson University's fifth annual World Leaders Forum March 12. He is the first Latin American leader to headline the event, which has hosted the likes of former President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
4. Hanover Park police are disputing a Missouri law enforcement agency's report that it captured someone in connection with the Sept. 6 slaying of a Schaumburg man in Hanover Park. Local cops say no one has been arrested or charged in the murder.
5. There are hundreds of opportunities for “citizen scientists” to weigh in on everything from bugs to dogs to space to sex, as Carpentersville resident Patrick Ricketson's recent photo of a rare bee demonstrates.
6. Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University Health System plan to merge to and create the state's largest health care system, one that boats 16 hospitals, 6,000 doctors and an estimated 3 million patients. The merger could be approved later this year.
7. Wood Dale police say they've captured a Rolling Meadows man who authorities believe is the “hooded bandit” suspected of robbing as many as nine suburban banks since July 2011.
8. Two men were injured, one critically, when the boat they were riding in crashed into the shore on the 5900 block of Beachway Street near Cary, roughly a quarter mile south from the Broken Oar marina and bar, authorities said.
9. A pair of suburban men recall their time living with Timothy Ray Jones Jr., a former Carpentersville resident now facing charges in South Carolina alleging he murdered his five children.
10. Rosemont may be home to only 4,200 residents, but the O'Hare International Airport neighbor has become a business and entertainment hub over the past few years. And there's more to come, Mayor Brad Stephens says.