10 stories you might have missed this weekend
1. Police departments responding to a growing number of calls involving mental health issues are shifting their aim from just dealing with the problem at hand to truly helping find solutions for people in crisis. More officer training and a new mindset are helping make the shift.
2. For the last century or so, couples picking dates for their October weddings never had to ask, "Gee, what if the Cubs have a big playoff game that day?" This year is different, and columnist Burt Constable talks with a wedding planner about how she handles it.
3. Lisle police shot and killed a man early Saturday who authorities say was trying to break into a woman's home. At the Lisle Police Department's request, Illinois State Police are investigating the shooting.
4. Actor Tim Guinee, a former resident of Lake Forest with a key role in the hard-hitting drama "99 Homes," talks in an interview with Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire about how he thinks acting "is expansive to your sense of humanity."
5. The driver of a car that swerved off Hintz Road in Arlington Heights early Saturday and crashed into a home is facing DUI charges, police said. At least three residents were home at the time but escaped injury.
6. It's back to algebra, football and normality Tuesday for McHenry High School District 156 students, if teachers ratify a tentative contract agreement that put the year on hold and delayed homecoming.
7. A Cub Scout camp in Woodstock and two Boy Scout camps in Wisconsin are expected to close under a resolution adopted last week by the Chicago-area Scout council board amid declining attendance and ongoing financial losses at the camps.
8. The Grammar Moses column explores apostrophe problems and asks whether you can really have a handful of elephants.
9. Police in St. Charles are searching for three men who on Saturday used hammers to smash a display case at Jared Jewelers and steal an undetermined number of items. The suspects are believed to have escaped in a van stolen in Batavia earlier in the day.
10. A milestone is approaching for the Lake County Forest Preserve District as it prepares to issue the remaining $25 million of $185 million in voter-approved bonds that have fueled a huge program to buy and improve land.