DeKalb News

Diana Beams of Community Coordinated Child Care helps a group of children pick out a donated book to take home.

GENOA – In the wake of a Tuesday evening crash in which a driver struck a piece of farm equipment, DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott reminded residents Wednesday to be mindful of tractors in the roadway.

DEKALB – Residents may notice some changes when they visit Kishwaukee Kiwanis Park or League of Women's Voters Park in DeKalb.

SYCAMORE – Two men and one woman have been arrested in connection with a July theft of $10,000 from a resident's bank account.

School bus workers at the DeKalb, Illinois First Student yard will go out on strike the morning of Monday, November 16.

Bus drivers for the DeKalb School District have voted down a proposed contract from the company they work for and could go on strike Monday morning, according to a district spokesman and a local bus driver.

DEKALB – Dan Kenney, a fourth-grade teacher at Brooks Elementary School, says its a win-win for the entire DeKalb School District – teachers, staff, mainenance personnel, students and taxpayers.

Police said the Associated Bank on Sycamore Road in DeKalb was robbed Wednesday morning by two men who displayed guns to bank employees.

To the Editor: I am responding to your Nov. 4 editorial regarding video gambling.

Firefighters work to control a blaze at a house on Maness Court in Sycamore on Tuesday night.

Sixteen years ago, I made a decision that has brought me here today. It was August 1993.

NEW YORK The Daily Chronicle in DeKalb, Ill., has named Jason Schaumburg its new editor.

A Lombard man was killed Wednesday after a train mishap. Kevin C. Jablonsky, 21, was struck by an eastbound Union Pacific Train approximately a qurater of a mile east of the Nelson Road crossing, which is west of DeKalb.

DeKALB – The city council may cut short an agreement that gives Target Corp.

Pictured is a gravestone in the DeKalb County Cemetery between Small's Furniture City and the strip mall that houses Michael's. DeKalb County historian Phyllis Kelley said the county has used this cemetery for more than 100 years to bury those who had no money or interment plans at the time of their death.

Bail was set Friday at $75,000 for a man who police say fired gunshots Monday night in the 900 block of Spiros Court.

DeKalb police are investigating an incident early Sunday morning in which shots were fired at a downtown nightclub.

DeKALB – An audit of finances for the DeKalb School District found that the district is managing its money well, the auditors who did the review told the school board Tuesday evening.

DeKALB – Residents and travelers on the east side of DeKalb will have another place to fuel up before winter is out.

DeKALB – Two men have been charged with robbing a group of teenagers Friday.