As an idealistic young boy in rural Indiana, I vowed to grow up to be the starting second-baseman on the Chicago Cubs team that would win all those World Series championships - a dream that is becoming less likely now that I'm well into my 50s. As a...

Cook County jurors found Mitchell Barnes not guilty of attempted murder Friday. But the 11-woman, 1-man jury convicted the former Barrington-area man of home invasion and robbery, making the 22-year-old eligible for a prison term of up to 30 years w...

A Cook County assistant state's attorney testified Thursday that Mitchell Barnes made statements implicating himself in a 2011 attack on a resident of the Homestead Studio Suites in Schaumburg. Barnes, 22, is charged with attempted murder, home inv...

The Harper men's soccer team will see a different face on the touchline when the Hawks open their season Friday against College of DuPage. The head-coaching void left by former coach Jason Diebold will be filled by Dan Klaus. That name should be fam...

The Harper College Theatre Department will complete its staging of playwright Alfred Uhry's "Atlanta Trilogy" with a production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" that begins Friday, Aug. 29. Set in 1939 Atlanta, the comedy f...

The Harper College Theatre Department will complete its staging of playwright Alfred Uhry's "Atlanta Trilogy" with a production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Last Night of Ballyhoo." Set in 1939 Atlanta, the comedy follows a wealthy Jewish fami...

More than 34,000 motorcyclists were killed and an estimated 1.2 million people treated for motorcycle-related injuries between 2001 and 2008, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A state of Illinois program available to newbi...

Not every college student can boast he knows his way around a particle accelerator. Thanks to an internship at Fermilab in Batavia, Harper College student Eric Meyers can say exactly that. Currently wrapping up his 10-week Fermilab internship, Barr...