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School bus driver charged with showing lewd video to children
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/20/2009
A 33-year-old bus driver who transported students from Olive Martin School in Lake Villa is accused of showing lewd video clips to children using her cell phone. FULL STORY

Founding SBA president retiring in May 2010
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/20/2009
aurie Stone helped build the Schaumburg Business Association from 24 members at its inception to 700, and now the group's founding president will retire in May. FULL STORY

Teen calls 911 after parents take away Xbox
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/19/2009
A Buffalo Grove teen was having fun, fun, fun until his parents took his video game system away. FULL STORY

One dead, one injured after crash in Gurnee
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff Report
Posted 11/19/2009
A 93-year-old man is dead and his 90-year-old wife remains hospitalized with severe injuries following a two-vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon in Gurnee. FULL STORY

Missing Aurora autistic man found
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/16/2009
Aurora police say a 22-year-old man with autism who was reported missing Sunday afternoon has been located safely in Crest Hill. FULL STORY

Pair of suburban women earn Studs Terkel awards
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/6/2009
Bartlett's Rita Lopienski and Hoffman Estates' Michelle Pilafas have each earned a Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award. FULL STORY

Rants, microphone problems colorful sidelights to Hoffman Estates meeting
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Columnist
Posted 11/6/2009
At one point during Monday's Hoffman Estates village board meeting, Trustee Cary Collins suggested that he would leave his chair and watch the rest of the meeting with the audience. FULL STORY

Barrington 220 officials working to get H1N1 shots for students
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/5/2009
Barrington Area Unit District 220 students will get a chance for H1N1 flu shots, but officials don't know when. FULL STORY

Potential Sears Centre operator took a pass, says it can't make money
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/4/2009
Hoffman Estates officials didn't have much of a choice Monday when considering who they'll hire to run the Sears Centre. One of the two companies in the running dropped out of the process last week. FULL STORY

District 220 OKs new 3-year contract for teachers
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/4/2009
Teachers at Barrington Unit School District 220 will get salary raises. The school board Tuesday approved a three-year teachers contract that gives the nearly 700 teachers in the Barrington Education Association raises of 3.9 percent in the first year. FULL STORY

Comcast division the choice for Sears Centre
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 11/3/2009
Hoffman Estates is a step closer to hiring a division of cable TV's Comcast Corp. to run the Sears Centre. The village board voted 5-1 Monday night to begin negotiations with Global Spectrum of Philadelphia. FULL STORY

No bidders for older Barrington homes
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/29/2009
A $1 sale price wasn't enough to attract a single bid on three older homes up for sale in Barrington. FULL STORY

Hoffman Estates boy dies of swine flu-related illness
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/28/2009
A 5-year-old Hoffman Estates boy died of complications from the H1N1 virus, officials confirmed. Michael Siver, a kindergartner at Thomas Jefferson School in Hoffman Estates, died Saturday. FULL STORY

Prosecutor: Arlington Hts. man stabbed grandma 16 times
By Ashok Selvam and Lee Filas | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/23/2009
An Arlington Heights man who was arrested late Thursday in the attempted murder of his elderly grandmother stabbed her 16 times, prosecutors said Friday. FULL STORY

Bittersweet trip for Conant teacher up for state award
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/23/2009
Conant High School English teacher Ann Metaxatos will carry a heavy heart to Peoria Saturday. "It's such a bittersweet thing," she said. FULL STORY

Dist. 15 has H1N1 vaccine for students, faculty
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/22/2009
Only enrolled students and eligible staff will be receiving H1N1 vaccinations at Palatine Township Elementary District 15. FULL STORY

Schaumburg cops make $10K cocaine bust
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/22/2009
A monthlong probe has led to the arrest of a possible gang member and the confiscation of $10,000 of cocaine, Schaumburg police said. FULL STORY

Palatine officials see end to dark chapter in village history
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/21/2009
James Degorski's life sentence slams the book shut on a dark chapter in Palatine's history, one that's reverberated through the victims' families, the police and the rest of the community for more than 16 years. FULL STORY

Officials prepare for Sears Centre interviews
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/20/2009
Hoffman Estates officials are preparing for Friday's meetings with two arena-management firms interested in running the Sears Centre arena. FULL STORY

Bartlett downtown tax district extension up in air
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/19/2009
Opponents say the vacant spaces that line downtown Bartlett prove that the Town Center TIF district has failed. FULL STORY

Schaumburg High senior's eye injured in Sunday morning fight
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/19/2009
A 17-year-old Schaumburg High School senior is in the hospital after she was struck in the eye Sunday morning in Chicago, caught in a fight with as many as 30 participants. FULL STORY

Suburban Indian worshippers set to celebrate Diwali
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/17/2009
Officials expect as many as 20,000 worshippers Sunday at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Bartlett to celebrate the Indian holiday Diwali. FULL STORY

St. Alexius officials hope to start expansion construction in spring
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/16/2009
Officials at St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates hope they can start work on a $117.4 million expansion project by spring. FULL STORY

Schaumburg cuts prices for hangar rental to fill airport vacancies
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/16/2009
Schaumburg officials are having problems renting out hangars at the village's airport and are actually reducing some hangar rental rates hoping to fill the vacancies. FULL STORY

Hoffman Estates parks win Gold Medal Award
By Ashok Selvam | Daily Herald Staff
Posted 10/15/2009
Creative partnerships with groups like the Chicago Wolves help earned the Hoffman Estates Park District's first Gold Medal Award. FULL STORY

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