During the holiday season, Maine West's girls basketball team has surely been in the giving spirit. This past Saturday, the varsity girls took the opportunity to fund raise through a bake sale and raffle at its annual 16-team junior varsity tourname...

A Hoffman Estates family devastated by an early-morning attack in April 2009 waited five years for justice. They got it in 2014 in the form of three life sentences for 26-year-old D'Andre Howard, convicted in June of first-degree murder in the stabb...

Red-light cameras were in the news again last week when the state Supreme Court let stand the Illinois law that allows their existence. A lawsuit had claimed the cameras in Chicago were unconstitutional, but the court, lacking two justices who recus...

The Study Buddy Homework Center at the Prospect Heights Public Library District was created in 2003, by Sue Seggeling, head of Youth Services, to provide additional academic support for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. Prospect Heights...

When Mark Gunther joined John Hersey High School's food drive more than 10 years ago, he saw potential to better serve the community. By reorganizing, creating a new strategy and drumming up more interest, Gunther and his team eventually led the Arl...

Court upholds Dist. 214's firing of teacher who attacked son's molester An Illinois appellate court upheld a school district's right to fire a Rolling Meadows High School teacher who was charged with attacking his son's molester. Northwest Subu...

Jack Siegel, who stood up for Arlington Heights in front of the U.S. Supreme Court and saved Schaumburg from a premature demise during his more than five decades as a municipal attorney, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. Siegel, 88, represen...

A supplier of red-light cameras has found a new client: suburban school districts. RedSpeed Illinois Inc. is testing a camera that catches drivers blowing through a special kind of stop sign - on the side of school buses. The cameras, educators say,...