<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>News</title><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com</link><description>RSS from www.daily-chronicle.com</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Police Reports </title><description>Editor&#x2019;s note: Information in Police Briefs is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff&#x2019;s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed in Police Briefs who have been charged with a crime have not been proved guilty in court.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/21/11331119/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/21/11331119/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:06:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kaneland teachers not ready to talk until January, at least</title><description>MAPLE PARK &#x2014; While Kaneland school district officials continue to push forward with plans to cut the budget, Kaneland's teachers and administrators likely will not reopen contract talks until after the New Year, if at all.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/21/48929996/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/21/48929996/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:05:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Application for landfill expansion to be filed in days</title><description>SYCAMORE &#x2013; An application to expand the county landfill should be filed to the county by Nov. 30.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/21/13440920/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/21/13440920/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gingrich to speak at Hastert fundraiser</title><description>GENEVA &#x2013; Former House Speaker and leader of the 1994 Republican Revolution Newt Gingrich will headline a fundraiser for 14th Congressional District hopeful Ethan Hastert.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/21/78465163/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/21/78465163/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:01:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Counterfeit bills passed at DeKalb retail stores</title><description>DeKALB &#x2013; Police are looking for a woman believed to have used fake $100 bills in a half-dozen retail stores this week to purchase items.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/03820840/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/03820840/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:42:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DeKalb, NIU police to step up patrols on northwest side of town</title><description>DeKALB &#x2013; Officers from the DeKalb and Northern Illinois University police departments are working together to increase patrols in the northwest side of the city in an effort to deter crime, administrators from both agencies said.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/03176083/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/03176083/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:39:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DeKalb bus drivers ratify contract</title><description>DeKALB &#x2013; Bus drivers for DeKalb School District 428 will be back at work Monday after voting Friday to accept a new offer from the company they work for.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/67423778/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/67423778/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:37:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethics committee admonishes Burris</title><description>WASHINGTON &#x2014; The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/67462774/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/67462774/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:28:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>'You think of Chicago, you think of Oprah'</title><description>CHICAGO &#x2014; Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sense of what she's meant to Chicago.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/22361441/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/22361441/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:26:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote</title><description>WASHINGTON &#x2014; Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/67967104/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/67967104/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:23:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vegetarians healthy? It depends</title><description>SYCAMORE &#x2014; David Goldblum and Lesley Rigg do not have to beg their 9-year-old daughter to eat her vegetables.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/18779691/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/18779691/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:20:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Terror plot ringleader gets 13-year prison term</title><description>MIAMI (AP) &#x2014; The ringleader of a group of men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices has been sentenced to 13˝ years in prison.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_mjysyhxvsqswfey20s10nw/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_mjysyhxvsqswfey20s10nw/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tamms shows use of "supermax" prisons</title><description>TAMMS  (AP) &#x2014; Although he's confined to his cell for all but about an hour on most days, Steven Wuebbels doesn't mind being isolated at Illinois' lone "supermax" prison &#x201a; a place human rights activists consider inhumane.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/82635859/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/82635859/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:01:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle</title><description>MILWAUKEE (AP) &#x2014; A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_dycqc6sstfqyulwkarnoew/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_dycqc6sstfqyulwkarnoew/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:38:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate Dems moving ahead on crucial health vote</title><description>WASHINGTON (AP) &#x2014; A wavering centrist Democrat said Friday he'd stand with Senate Democratic leaders on a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill amid indications other moderates would fall in line.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/66583184/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/66583184/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:15:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bus strike ends: Union ratifies contract</title><description>DeKALB &#x2013; Bus drivers for DeKalb School District 428 will be back at work Monday after voting today to accept a new offer from the company they work for.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/48822384/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/48822384/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan demands US share Afghan blueprint</title><description>ISLAMABAD (AP) &#x2014; Pakistan expressed fear Friday that a large increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan could push militants across the border into its territory and called on the U.S. to factor in that concern as part of its new war strategy.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_nduu5s4smgfzjs9y3_oxa/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_nduu5s4smgfzjs9y3_oxa/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:31:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia's Gorbachev considers political comeback</title><description>MOSCOW (AP) &#x2014; Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_zbsowll_qlybmjnvdvgrng/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_zbsowll_qlybmjnvdvgrng/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:08:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>South Carolina lawmakers to take up impeachment</title><description>COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) &#x2014; South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_txnq_is5rhu6arhjy2rihq/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_txnq_is5rhu6arhjy2rihq/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>No punishment for Burris</title><description>WASHINGTON (AP) &#x2014; The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee recommended no action beyond the letter.</description><link>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/12743412/index.xml</link><guid>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/11/20/12743412/index.xml</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:54:34 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>