10 stories you may have missed this weekend

1. More than 450 Illinois law enforcement agencies have received more than $66 million worth of free surplus military equipment, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

2. A former Gavin South Middle School teacher was extradited to Lake County over the weekend to face charges that he sexually molested a student. In addition to that case he faces additional charges he molested a second girl — and videotaped about 20 encounters.

3. A Villa Park man accused of setting a fire that killed his former girlfriend and injured another man could face life in prison if convicted in a trial scheduled to begin Tuesday.

4. “The fighting — you make the Congress look good,” Campton Hills resident Chuck Johnson said last week as some grow weary of infighting on the village board.

5. The $13.9 million makeover of Woodfield Mall's common areas is an example of the effort required for even successful shopping centers to remain relevant, analysts say.

6. Using the ruse of seeing a movie together, an 18-year-old Des Plaines man attacked a co-worker with a combat knife outside a movie theater at Deer Park Town Center because she “annoyed him,” authorities said.

7. DuPage Children's Museum in Naperville is likely to remain closed for a few weeks while crews clean and repair water damage caused by a pipe that burst.

8. A St. Charles man died Sunday morning in a fire in the apartment he rented.

9. Defying skeptics, Lake County officials say the $6.5 million roundabout in Lake Barrington — the county's fifth — will be safer than a traditional signal intersection.

10. Suburban educators hailed President Obama's plan to make community college as “free and universal as high school is today,” but said it faces a tough sell with Illinois lawmakers who would have to loosen the state's purse strings.

BONUS: It was all about the walk down the red carpet at the Golden Globes. And of course, the big winners.