10 stories you might have missed this weekend

1. Half the community college students in the state are taking remedial courses, usually math. Here's what suburban educators are trying to do about that.

2. There are no world championship tales in the mix, but a pair of authors unearthed 100 other stories for their book celebrating the 100th year of the Cubs playing at Wrigley Field.

3. Elgin police Friday arrested a second person in the kidnapping and torture of a 19-year-old woman last weekend, police said Saturday in a news release.

4. An independent investigation will be conducted into the death Friday of a Lake County jail inmate, officials said.

5. A DuPage County jury deliberated for 23 minutes Friday evening before finding a 52-year-old Rockford man with HIV and a history of convictions and mental health issues to be "sexually dangerous."

7. About five months after the rector for the Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine resigned amid a scandal, the religious landmark that draws tens of thousands of pilgrims to Des Plaines every December has a new leader.

8. A researcher at College of DuPage has come up with a way to predict the likelihood of tornadoes two or three weeks in advance. Is it a first step toward better warnings of storms that kill an about 80 Americans each year?

9. A Cook County judge on Friday ordered a Palatine man held on $1 million bail on charges he sexually abused a young child who attended a home day-care operated by the man's mother.

10. Is Wauconda's decision to outsource its emergency dispatching services to blame for the closing of a downtown business? That's what the businesses owner thinks.