New desks and chairs aren't usually luxury items for Elgin Area School District U-46 students. They soon could be. Still waiting on upward of $6 million in promised state funding, U-46 has been forced to dip into reserves and will soon stop buying ...

Clerks in stores have been saying, "Have a happy holiday" to me and I'm highly offended. "Holiday" is a derivative of the words "Holy Day" and thoughts of anything holy bothers me. Perhaps we should stick with "Season's Greetings." Oh, wait. That co...

Clerks in stores have been saying, "Have a happy holiday" to me and I'm highly offended. "Holiday" is a derivative of the words "Holy Day" and thoughts of anything holy bothers me. Perhaps we should stick with "Season's Greetings." Oh, wait. That co...

Elgin • A burglar made off with a mother lode of junk food this week, taking animal crackers, potato chips, Twix bars and other assorted vending machine fodder from an Aramark Corp. truck, police said. The burglary, which totaled more than $200 in c...

Algonquin • A Lake in the Hills teen was arrested at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday on the 500 block of East Algonquin Road, police said. Bradley S. Pace, 18, of 871 Wedgewood Circle, was charged with consumption of alcohol by a minor, possession of alcohol by...

After Thursday night's disappointing loss to Mundelein, Dundee-Crown's girl basketball team viewed its match up with Grayslake North as a "must win" Friday. "We knew we had to come out tonight and make a statement," said Chargers' guard Kathleen Col...

• A Carpentersville man was arrested on drug charges at 10:45 p.m. Wednesday near Cherokee Road and Teepee Avenue, police said. Homero Nambo, 21, of 1921 Cherokee Road, was charged with possession of a controlled substance after 0.16 gram of cocaine...

Carpentersville trustees are obfuscating regarding my offer to pay to destroy rather than sell the used guns that they are planning to sell. The trustees say they knew nothing of my offer. Or did they know? I spoke to Village President Bill Sarto th...