A 34-year old DeKalb man named William Curl has been charged in the death of NIU student Antinette "Toni" Keller. Curl was a person of interest to the police because he was a frequent visitor to Prairie Park, where Keller's remains were found, and also possibly because he reported a fire in the woods near the park where Keller told her friends she would be. more ›

DeKalb police have identified a "person of interest" in the homicide investigation of NIU student Antinette "Toni" Keller. more ›

The disappearance of NIU student Antinette "Toni" Keller is now a homicide investigation. Remains found at a park where Keller was last headed were so badly burned that the cannot be identified as Keller's. According to officials close to the investigation, items found near the remains have been identified as belonging to Keller. more ›

Items and human remains possibly belonging to missing Northern Illinois University student, Antinette "Toni" Keller, were found in Prairie Park, south of Illinois 38, in DeKalb County. DeKalb Police Chief Bill Feithen told the Chicago Sun-Times that although the remains of not been positively identified, police are now classifying Keller's disappearance as a death investigation. He also stated that her family was notified on Saturday. more ›

• Yesterday's death of bicyclist Jepson Livingston has been ruled a homicide; police allege Livingston was caught in an altercation between two cars and was struck when one driver tried to intentionally hit the other car.
• Details are emerging regarding the death - apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound - of 12-year-old Michael Maxey Jr. of Gary, Indiana who went missing Monday afternoon.
• United Airlines continues to battle the city over the O'Hare Expansion.

It's been almost two years since the disappearance and death of Nailah Franklin. Within days of her September 19, 2007 disappearance, Franklin's body was found in a wooded part of Calumet City. Shortly thereafter, Franklin's ex-boyfriend, Reginald Potts, Jr., was charged with her murder; he's still in jail awaiting trial. As the anniversary approaches, the Tribune's Dawn Turner Trice has an excellent feature on Franklin's family as they continue to cope with the Nailah's death and await Potts' trial. Trice's piece let's Franklin's family - her mother Maria Maner, her father Lee Franklin, and sisters Lehia Franklin Acox and Ashley Chappell - explain in their loss and experiences in their own words. more ›

It's been one year since the disappearance of Bolingbrook's Stacy Peterson and her estranged husband, Drew Peterson, took to The Today Show to maintain his innocence and to ask Stacy to, "Show yourself. Put an end to this nightmare." Of course, he doesn't expect her to reappear, as he told the AP: “If I was a little girl and the focus of all this media attention, I wouldn't be coming back. Why would a little girl come back to that?” While Drew makes media appearances, Stacy's family will be marking the anniversary with a candlelight vigil. After Stacy's disappearance, police went back and, after further investigation, reclassified the death of Kathleen Savio, Peterson's third wife, from accidental drowning to murder, adding to the intense scrutiny on Peterson. Will County State's Atty. James Glasgow announced last week that he expected, "a resolution in at least one of these investigations in the near future," a charge Peterson and his lawyer have dismissed as a mere play for votes in next week's election. more ›