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I oppose charter schools because they address the wrong problem. The real cause of academic failure is not, as charter proponents contend, bad teachers, teachers unions and bureaucratic school systems. The real cause is poverty. Charter schools not ...
Updated: Jul 04, 2014 at 06:05 AM
During the last few days, I did enough laps around Fenway Park to have run the Boston Marathon.
Part of it was selfish. This was my fourth trip to Fenway, and I love the old place.
The other part was to have a good look around and see how the Red So...
Updated: Jul 04, 2014 at 10:19 PM
BAGHDAD - The leader of Iraq's Kurdish north called on lawmakers in the self-rule region's parliament to take the necessary steps toward holding a referendum on independence, a move that would likely spell the end of a unified Iraq.
Iraq's largely a...
Updated: Jul 03, 2014 at 08:04 PM
Elburn
• Overnight June 15-16, someone burned a U.S. flag on a table in a gazebo of the Meadows Apartments, 318 N. Dempsey Drive.
Batavia
• A vandal scratched the hood of a vehicle between 10:30 and 11 p.m. July 1 on the 1000 block of Lorl...
Updated: Jul 03, 2014 at 06:12 PM
The calendar has flipped to July, and in major-league baseball, that means the nonwaiver trade deadline is lurking at the end of the month.
But even after edging the Angels 3-2 Wednesday night on pinch-hitter Leury Garcia's RBI single with one out i...
Updated: Jul 03, 2014 at 10:14 PM
Marengo woman gives birth on tollway
The commute from Trevor Farina's home in Marengo to Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin is typically a 35-minute drive. But on the day of his son's birth, he made it there in 20 minutes. It still wasn't fast ...
Updated: Jul 02, 2014 at 11:08 AM
Earlier this year, Traci O'Neal Ellis, a black attorney, waited in line behind a few white lawyers in a Kane County courtroom. She wanted to check with the clerk on a few details of her client's case before the judge took the bench.
When it was her ...
Updated: Jul 02, 2014 at 05:22 PM
Hector Noesi and Scott Carroll were the White Sox' starting pitchers for Tuesday's doubleheader against the Angels' duo of Garrett Richards and Jered Weaver.
Noesi and Carroll came in with a combined 4-9 record and 4.94 ERA.
Richards and Weaver came...
Updated: Jul 02, 2014 at 05:16 PM
A group of Elgin Area School District U-46 elementary school teachers will visit Ghana over winter break to train educators there how to use storybooks and computers in their classrooms.
The effort is part of the Books for Ghana project by sixth-gr...
Updated: Jul 02, 2014 at 06:02 AM
LONDON - As the rain wreaks havoc on the Wimbledon schedule and players start to complain, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic have found little reason to worry about the weather.
It helped that both got to play Monday on Centre Court, the only spot at t...
Updated: Jun 30, 2014 at 08:45 PM