The Red Wings rallied from a 2-0 hole to beat the Blackhawks in overtime. DePaul is now 3-54 lifetime in Big East play. NIU capped a stellar season by winning the GoDaddy.com bowl. more ›

University of Illinois-Chicago 62, Northern Illinois 55 more ›

Steven R. Agee II, 22, of south suburban Park Forest, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest around 2:10 a.m. more ›

Bill Carmody's Wildcats improved to 4-0 on the season and won the Charleston Classic in Charleston, SC, thanks to Drew Crawford's 27 points. Crawford scored 72 points in Northwestern's three games to earn tournament MVP honors. more ›

Harnish set a school record last night with 519 yards of total offense as the Huskies roared back from a 31-14 to improve to 6-1 in the Mid America Conference. more ›

It's never too early for folks in South Bend to start considering a replacement for Irish head coach Brian Kelly. more ›

Among the individuals interviewed for the study were NIU students during the Valentine's Day 2008 campus shootings by Steven Kazmierczak. more ›

Devon Butler, a linebacker for Northern Illinois University who was wounded in a drive-by shooting on April 5, announced during a press conference in DeKalb on Friday that will not be playing in 2011. Butler was released from a Rockford-area hospital last Tuesday, but he has a long recovery in front of him, having suffered from a collapsed lung from the shooting. He explained during the press conference that he will start physical therapy in six months, and in the meantime, he will be concentrating on classwork and regaining his strength. "I'm going to take my redshirt year," said Butler, a junior from Pembroke Pines, Florida, via the Chicago Sun-Times. "The doctors have laid out what I need to do to get back to the classroom and also the football team." more ›

Citing "a long mental health history and educational issues as well," DeKalb County public defender Regina Harris requested a psychological evaluation for William Curl, the man accused of murdering NIU student Antoinette "Toni" Keller in October. more ›

The Bulls played the Celtics on Boston's parquet floor. The Blackhawks hosted Vancouver on home ice. And both NIU and Illinois played games that had bowl game implications. How did they fare? Not well. more ›

Full slate of games between major sports yesterday. Here's hwo they turned out: more ›

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

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A sculpture dedicated to the victims of the February 2008 campus shooting was unveiled earlier this week. Created by NIU alumni Bruce Niemi, the piece is made of stainless steel and called, "Remembered." Niemi said of his sculpture, "When I create a work, I try to make it be positive and uplifting. No matter how bad things are, there's always something good that can come out of it. I hope people can walk away with this with a feeling of calmness and piece of mind.'' The cost of the sculpture and its installation - $150,000 - was paid for by a special fund created for such a memorial. [Sun-Times, Northern Star] more ›

Through Wednesday, we're counting down the top 8 local stories that captivated us in 2008. more ›

The president of Northern Illinois University announced today that the school no longer plans to demolish Cole Hall. In a letter to students, John G. Peters wrote, "In ratios ranging from 3-to-1 to 4-to-1, our campus community asked that Cole Hall remain standing, but that it not be used for instructional purposes in its current configuration." more ›

Last week's announced plan from Governor Blagojevich to tear down Cole Hall has been met with great backlash amongst state lawmakers, NIU staff and students. An email sent yesterday from Northern Illinois University President John Peters to students and faculty put a hold on the Governor’s plan and called for campus-wide discourse regarding the fate of the 40-year-old building. Peters said the future of Cole Hall should “represent a consensus opinion” of the university community. more ›

Cole Hall will be closed for the rest of the semester and will be knocked down this spring, with construction on the new Memorial Hall to be completed by the 2010 school year. [Northern Star, Trib] more ›

NIU classes resumed today after a vigil last night drew 10,000 people from the university and beyond, including Governor Blagojevich, Senators Dick Durbin and Barack Obama, and secretary of the department of health and human services Michael Leavitt. more ›

More disturbing details are emerging today about Steve Kazmierczak: Police are saying that he tried to cover his tracks before the shooting spree. He removed the hard drive from his computer and took the SIM card out of his phone. And apparently the account his girlfriend gave CNN yesterday doesn't match with what she told the police. more ›

It was pretty much inevitable that discussions about the NIU shooting would turn to gun control. And turn they have. more ›

The Chicago Blackhawks honored the NIU victims last night with above decal, which they'll wear on their helmets again tomorrow night in St. Louis and Wednesday night here against Minnesota. And Ozzie Guillen and co. were wearing NIU hats at spring training. [Blackhawks, Uniwatch] more ›

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This is the first photo emerging of Stephen (we're also seeing it spelled Steven, but NIU announced it as a ph) Kazmierczak, the gunman in yesterday's shootings at NIU. more ›

9:37 Dr. Peters, president of NIU, is thanking everyone for their response to the tragedy. He says he was "renew[ed]" by seeing the university community come together. more ›

CNN is identifying the shooter as 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak. more ›

Another wounded student has died, bringing the number of fatalities from yesterday's shooting at Norther Illinois University to 7. The gunman's identity will be announced at a news conference later this morning, but right now authorities have said he was a 27-year-old graduate student enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [Trib] more ›

More reports out of NIU tonight: more ›

At least two people were shot during a geology class at Northern Illinois University this afternoon. As of 3:50, NIU had posted this on its website: more ›