10 stories you may have missed
1. Gone are the days when knowing your ABCs and how to count from one to 10 was enough preparation for kindergarten; educators say many children are falling short in the social and emotional skills they need.
2. Chicago-area residents with family and friends in Nepal scrambled Saturday to get in touch with loved ones and organize relief efforts after a massive earthquake wreaked devastation and killed an estimated 2,500 in the their homeland.
3. How you can help the international relief and recovery effort in Nepal after an earthquake killed more than 2,000.
4. The Festival Chorus celebrates its 50th anniversary May 3 at Harper College, with two of its original members still there to recall how it all began with a concert in support of the civil rights movement.
5. The College of DuPage Faculty Association is calling on the board to place President Robert Breuder on administrative leave "until all the issues related to investigations by state and federal agencies are resolved."
6. Students in Arlington Heights elementary schools can bring peanut butter in their lunches for now despite the request of a few parents that District 25 ban all peanut products to protect kids with extreme allergies.
7. A substitute teacher no longer will be called upon by Northwest Suburban High School District 214 after inadvertently showing students an "inappropriate" video during class. Officials wouldn't say what the video showed.
8. Waubonsie Valley High School had a good problem for its annual month of service: too many students wanted to be involved.
9. Island Lake officials hope a specially designed machine will help them reduce the unsightly duckweed and algae that have covered the town's namesake lake the past few summers.
10. Elgin police are seeking the driver of a vehicle they believe was the cause of a multivehicle crash Friday evening that seriously injured six people.