Briefs: Body identified as teen

A body stuffed into a cardboard box a year ago on Chicago's Northwest Side has been identified as that of a Danville teenager. Chicago police said Monday they were able to identify 17-year-old Marlaina "Niki" Reed with the help of a forensic artist, a magazine and an observant Chicago dental employee. Police say a photograph of an artist-produced clay model of the teen's head and face and her dental X-rays were published in a dental magazine. That's where the employee recognized her. Reed's body was discovered last January. She'd been strangled and badly beaten, her body tied with cords. Police say Reed had lived in Chicago for about two years. They said she had lived in a group home and was a habitual runaway.

Enrollment up at SIU

Southern Illinois University officials say the school's enrollment figures have risen for the spring session. Officials said Monday that the Carbondale school's total student enrollment stood at 19,789, up 134 students from a year ago. The school says there are 17,459 students on campus, up from last year, and 2,330 students off campus, down from last year. The school also noted that it saw increases in first-time students and transfer students. SIU spokesman Rod Sievers says the university has worked to reverse falling enrollment and officials are pleased with the new statistics.

Man sentenced in art fraud

A man whose family forged statues and paintings and then passed them off as priceless pieces of art to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence Monday in London. George Greenhalgh, 84, his 83-year-old wife, Olive, and their 46-year-old son, Shaun, pleaded guilty in 2002 to charges of laundering money from the sale of forged artworks. The son, who authorities said created the fakes, was sentenced to more than four years in jail in November. His mother received a 12-month sentence. Police said the parents handled most of the sales. Detective Sgt. Vernon Rapley said the family has been "operating for nearly 20 years, producing and introducing a diverse range of art works into the U.K. market." Rapley, the chief of Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques unit, said there was little doubt that some of their forgeries were still circulating in the art world. In December, the Art Institute of Chicago said a ceramic figure supposedly sculpted by 19th-century French artist Paul Gauguin, which graced the museum for 10 years, was among the Greenhalgh forgeries.