10 stories you may have missed
1. Until they got a call from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Geneva police officers hadn't heard the name Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath. The 23-year-old Geneva woman has been charged in a foiled plot to kill as many people as possible at a Halifax shopping mall on Valentine's Day.
2. All this fuss for a guy starting college in 1944 and earning his degree 70 years later is undeserved, insists World War II veteran and recent college graduate Chris Kallimani of Mount Prospect.
3. Two ongoing fundraising projects at a Bartlett elementary school and am Elgin church will help feed 300 schoolchildren in Ghana and support an orphanage in that West African nation.
4. South Elgin junior basketball player Matt Smith, 16, told Aurora police he was assaulted Friday night by as many as four people he identified as possibly being Metea Valley players after the two schools competed in a game.
5. What's it like, watching an R-rated, adults-only movie about a sadomasochistic relationship in a packed auditorium with hundreds of other people? Daily Herald senior copy editor Sean Stangland tells you why "Fifty Shades of Grey" is likely better seen in a crowded theater.
6. Two more infants enrolled at a Palatine day care center have been diagnosed with measles. In Illinois, there are now 13 confirmed cases, all in Cook County.
7. Elgin Area School District U-46 administrators have suspended a substitute teacher after a video was posted of an encounter in which Streamwood High School student Stephen Davis, 15, says he was taunted by the teacher.
8. A 24-year-old Roselle man is accused of pimping 15- and 16-year-old teenage girls throughout the suburbs while free on bail as he awaited trial for sexually abusing a different teenage girl in McHenry County.
9. Mount Prospect will likely ask residents to share in the cost of fixing the backyard drainage problem.
10. Richard and Gail Sonnichsen - married almost 59 years - led a procession of couples renewing their vows in a Bartlett ceremony for Valentine's Eve. "I would do it again 100 times," the groom said.
Bonus: "SNL" celebrated 40 years with a three-plus hour extravaganza.