Copyright 2013 Daily Herald, Paddock Publications, Inc. http://www.dailyherald.com/community/mettawa/ en-us Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:06:36 -0500 http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702069806/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702069806/ Wed, 6 Feb 2013 12:41:53 -0500 Stevenson High School officials are considering creating an app that would allow students and parents to access schedules, calendars and other information on smart phones and tablets. Neighboring Libertyville and Vernon Hills high schools launched their first apps in December. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130205/news/702059681/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130205/news/702059681/ Tue, 5 Feb 2013 17:44:06 -0500 Rondout Elementary District 72 will host an evening with Conserve Lake County at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11 at Rondout School, 28593 North Bradley Road, Lake Forest. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130210/news/702109844/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130210/news/702109844/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:47:07 -0500 The Mundelein High School jazz bands will present a winter concert at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in the auditorium. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702089696/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702089696/ Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:37:07 -0500 Two plans of different size and scope could boost home building in Vernon Hills. The Oaks, a proposed luxury rental community on the former Kelly's Day Camp on Route 45, has received official approval for preliminary plans. Village officials also supported changes to the look of townhouses to be built on Greenleaf Avenue. The original development was approved in 2006 but was idle until another firm bought the property. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702069708/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702069708/ Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:27:41 -0500 After only three hours of deliberations, a Lake County jury found Sandra Rogers guilty of attempting to murder her ex-husband with a sledgehammer in an early-morning attack almost a decade ago. Prosecutors said Rogers was the "angry, bitter and frustrated ex-wife" who used a red sledgehammer to repeatedly strike Rick Rogers on May 19, 2003, in the bedroom of his Lincolnshire home. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702059623/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130206/news/702059623/ Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:31:48 -0500 Her athleticism is helping Wheeling's Danni Allen continue to excel on The Biggest Loser, the NBC weight-loss reality show that reached its halfway point this week with the Mundelein High School grad still in the hunt for the grand prize. As of Monday's episode, Allen had dropped 51 pounds from her starting weight of 258. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130205/news/702059661/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130205/news/702059661/ Tue, 5 Feb 2013 18:04:35 -0500 Sales executive and former small business owner Ray Mullen of Mundelein has been named executive director of the Green Oaks, Libertyville, Mundelein, Vernon Hills Chamber of Commerce. Mullen, the former owner of Debbie's Floral in Mundelein succeeds Alese Campbell who left last fall for another job. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130205/news/702059705/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130205/news/702059705/ Tue, 5 Feb 2013 17:03:34 -0500 Daniel Baker's sentencing will have to wait another six weeks while a court-appointed psychiatrist re-examines the Deerfield man to determine if he is capable of understanding his own potential prison sentence. The decision to delay Baker's sentencing until March 20 was made after Baker penned a letter to Lake County Judge Daniel Shanes in January in which he explained that his ex-girlfriend, Kristina Aksman, killed her mother, Marina Aksman, in April 2010. In the letter, Baker said he covered up the murder to protect his mentally disabled former girlfriend.