Now former school superintendent Charles Flowers resigned Friday as chief of the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education, an office that was closed until further notice last November. more ›

The Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education superintendent was arrested yesterday and his bond was set at $100,000 this morning after prosecutors say Flowers dipped his hand into the office's cookie jar to the tune of $376,000, a third of the office's current $1 million debt. He's been charged with felony theft and official misconduct. more ›

• Cook County Regional Supt. Charles Flowers was arrested today on theft charges stemming from, among other things, alleged misuse of public money.
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• Life imitates The Hangover: A Kankakee police officer has been put on leave for an incident this week in which he allegedly tasered a junior high school student in an effort to show a few students how the taser worked.

The hunt is on for Dr. Charles Flowers, the county's Regional Superintendent of Suburban Cook County Schools after a state audit showed that he may have misused county funds for personal gains. The office, which issues teaching certificates, approves school calendars and reviews school districts' finances in suburban Cook County, was deemed so useless that it was eliminated in 1994. A political deal in Springfield later resurrected it. Flowers, who's is the head of the office, is suspected of using tens of thousands of dollars in state money to hire relatives and pay for personal expenses. Included in the spending is a vehicle, furniture and personal cash advances. more ›