Ten stories you may have missed this weekend

1. In the midst of a national debate on guns, Wayne Wagner of Arlington Heights fondly remembers when kids not only brought guns to school, they won national shooting championships in the 1980s.

2. Gloria Balenski wrote President Barack Obama a thank-you note last spring for helping save her husband's job. Little did she know it would land her a coveted spot for Tuesday's State of the Union address.

3. By its own admission, the state of Illinois has done a lousy job of tracking the number of lives lose to heroin overdoses. a new law enacted in September aims to change that.

4. Downers Grove attorney Kathleen Zellner is taking over the representation of a Wisconsin man who is the subject of the popular "Making a Murderer" Netflix series.

5. A Wauconda man was driving under the influence of drugs early Sunday morning when his car slammed into the rear of a parked Lake County Sheriff's squad, injuring himself and a deputy, authorities say.

6. Authorities say a 55-year-old man shot and killed his wife Friday in the garage of their Bloomingdale home before turning the gun on himself.

7. The magic number of donations needed to save a Prospect Heights Catholic school from closing at the end of the current school years has been upped to $400,000, church officials announced in a letter to parishioners over the weekend. St. Alphonsus Liguori had raised more than $320,000 to save the school before a Jan. 4 deadline.

8. Five women from across the country have joined an existing lawsuit against a DuPage County-based conservative Christian ministry alleging decades of sexual misconduct by church officials.

9. An Elk Grove Village teenager who authorities say used a fake social networking profile to meet and rob men was ordered held on $50,000 bail Friday.

10. Sunday's Golden Globes kicked off the Hollywood award season, but there's more to come. Find out when the shows air and which suburban natives to watch for on the red carpet.