Articles filed under Region
-
College student in Belleville arrested for alleged threatsFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - BELLEVILLE -- A Southwestern Illinois College student faces charges after police said he threatened to shoot students at the Belleville campus. Twenty-one-year-old Steve...
-
Illinois fairgrounds closed due to electrical problemsFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Department of Agriculture has canceled all events at the Illinois State Fairgrounds because of repeated high voltage electrical failures at t...
-
Tinley Park police release new sketch of mall shooting suspectFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Tinley Park Police have released an updated sketch to help find the gunman who killed five people in a woman's clothing store earlier this month. The new composite sketc...
-
Chicago police superintendent announces changesFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Only two weeks after he was sworn in, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis announced Friday a major shake-up in his command staff. Weis jumped over several ranks to p...
-
Oprah Winfrey plug makes business book a Web sensationFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" were downloaded after the announcement la...
-
DeKalb church services offer prayers for NIU shooting victims, familiesFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Churchgoers are remembering the victims of the Northern Illinois University shooting rampage with prayers and support for the school and family members. At First Bapt...
-
UIC senior arrested for alleged e-mail threatsFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Police say they have arrested a 24-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago senior after she allegedly sent out e-mails threatening violence on the UIC campus. University...
-
Cardinal appoints nun as new head of Chicago diocesan schoolsFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Cardinal Francis George says he has named Sister Mary Paul McCaughey, president of Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, as superintendent of schools for the R...
-
Army veteran wanted to teachFeb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - After spending more than a decade on active duty in the Army, Julianna Gehant had set her sights on a new career: teaching. In a recent Christmas card to a former drama ...
-
Briefs: Animal shelters support billFeb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - A state lawmaker's push to outlaw gas chambers to euthanize animals across the state has the backing of about a dozen Illinois animal-rescue shelters that consider the m...