10 stories you may have missed this weekend

1. Thousands of gallons of pollution are released across the region from train cars every year due to everything from human error to loose screws, according to Sunday's installment in a series on hazardous train cargo.

2. Officials are investigating the death of Clinton Reif, the assistant equipment manager for the Chicago Blackhawks, who was found unresponsive in his home Sunday morning, according to the DuPage County Coroner's Office.

3. There are more minority students in Illinois than their white counterparts, and more than 50 percent of students now come from low-income families - demographic shifts that educators are working hard to handle.

4. Two men have been charged with stealing from a Salvation Army donation bucket outside the Ultra Foods in Lombard.

5. Barrington college student Amy DeJong and her teammate Maya Warren, tasted sweet victory in the final leg of CBS' "The Amazing Race" as they won the CBS reality show and a million-dollar prize.

6. Bartlett police are considering criminal charges against two Bartlett High School students who hacked into an Elgin Area District U-46 online portal and changed student attendance records.

7. Two St. Charles East High School students have been expelled and face legal ramifications after recently shutting down the district's computer network for the better part of a month.

8. Arlington Heights police have arrested an 18-year-old man and two juveniles in connection with a string of residential burglaries that occurred over the past two months on the far north side of town.

9. Phil and Ann Kwiatkowski of Palatine got one of the best Christmas presents parents with a child in the military can receive - their oldest son Stephen ended his four-year hitch in the Marines after two tours in Afghanistan.

10. A batch of 500 cookies was auctioned off for a stunning $75,000 to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Dundee Township, with philanthropist Tom Roeser of Otto Engineering making the winning bid.