St. Charles East High School will be closed tomorrow and will remain shuttered through at least Monday as over 900 of the school's 2,100 students called in sick today due to flu-like symptoms. Administrators had no word on how many, if any, of the students were sick with the H1N1 strain of the virus. It's not the first school in the area to be shut down because of widespread flu-related absences; Serena Grade School in LaSalle County is closed for similar reasons. more ›

A St. Charles teen is discovering that stupid acts at a young age can lead to some serious adult-level consequences. 18-year-old Piotr Rybak of St. Charles is facing three counts of child pornography after nude photos of his ex-girlfriend were found on a school library computer at St. Charles East High School. Rybak allegedly took the photos and copied them to the computer in March 2008, when Rybak was 17 and the girl was 16. The discovery was made during a "routine audit of library computers." (Obviously not too routine if it took a year to find them.) The school then went to police: more ›