When you're hot, you're hot. And Downers Grove South's boys basketball team was smoking in Wednesday's Class 4A Lyons Township regional semifinal, upsetting Hinsdale Central 70-52 in LaGrange. The No. 11 seed Mustangs, who play No. 3 Lyons on Friday...

The cost is going up for students at Harper College in Palatine. Trustees on Tuesday approved nearly a 6 percent tuition hike starting this summer. Officials say the $5-per-credit-hour increase will help offset state funding cuts. For an average, fu...

Finishing second-best means little rest. That's how it was for Harper College wrestling coach Dan Loprieno after a second consecutive runner-up finish in the NJCAA Division III national wrestling tournament last weekend in Rochester, Minn. Loprieno ...

A Wheeling man accused of fondling a young boy in the children's department of a Mount Prospect Wal-Mart was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday at the Rolling Meadows courthouse. Kenneth J. Vernon, 38, a convicted child s...

Wauconda fire officials Monday said they were still trying to determine what caused a truck to catch fire after it killed a Lake Barrington man while he was working underneath it. Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said Ari Squire, 39, died immediat...

Ryan Tyszkiewicz' College of DuPage teammates were aware that he was in position to break the school's all-time career 3-pointer record during last Saturday's game against Triton, and they tried to encourage him to go for it. But all that was doing ...

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The Harper wrestling team is in a tie for seventh place after the first day of the National Junior College Athletic Association championships in Rochester, Minn. Harper has 20½ points and is tied with Colby. Iowa Central has a commanding lead at 40½...

Today, Harper College will be the focus of many in the local Sikh community. That's because the Palatine campus will host the Chicago-area premiere of "The Widow Colony," an award-winning human rights documentary chronicling the stories of Sikh wome...