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MAPLE PARK — 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.

SYCAMORE – An application to expand the county landfill should be filed to the county by Nov. 30.

GENEVA – Former House Speaker and leader of the 1994 Republican Revolution Newt Gingrich will headline a fundraiser for 14th Congressional District hopeful Ethan Hastert.

DeKALB – Police are looking for a woman believed to have used fake $100 bills in a half-dozen retail stores this week to purchase items.

DeKALB – 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.

DeKALB – 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.

SYCAMORE — David Goldblum and Lesley Rigg do not have to beg their 9-year-old daughter to eat her vegetables.

DeKALB – 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.

DeKALB – The city council Monday is expected to make changes to financial policies that relate to aldermen doing business with the city.

SYCAMORE – Closing arguments were heard Thursday in the trial of a Kirkland man facing murder charges for the 2005 beating death of Frank Riccardi Jr.

DeKALB – Bus drivers for DeKalb School District 428 are scheduled to vote at 10 a.m. today on a new proposed offer from the company they work for, a Teamster official said Thursday night.

The free fall in the housing market over the past two years caused a number of developers to go belly-up, leaving unfinished subdivisions in their wake.

Colleges Against Cancer's Northern Illinois University group kicked off Relay for Life and hosted the Great American Smokeout Thursday night in the Holmes Student Center.

SYCAMORE – When Dr. Erik Winn saw things he never expected during a visit to Haiti earlier this month to perform dental work for children and adults.

As technology advances and interest in renewable energy grows, many municipalities are finding themselves without rules to guide small-scale energy production.

GENOA – In last year's state of the city address, Genoa City Administrator Joe Misurelli illustrated the state of the national economy with a photo of a crying baby. In his 2009 address Thursday, he used the Mona Lisa.

DeKALB – Bus drivers for the DeKalb School District are scheduled to vote at 10 a.m. Friday on a new proposed offer from the company they work for, a teamster official said Thursday night.

CORTLAND – A Cortland man was charged Wednesday with transporting child pornography via his computer, according to federal authorities.

GENOA – In the wake of a Tuesday evening crash in which a driver struck a piece of farm equipment, DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott reminded residents Wednesday to be mindful of tractors in the roadway.

Local Toys for Tots volunteers have expanded their efforts by adding collection sites in Rochelle.

DeKALB – The huge amount of dirt being moved on the Kishwaukee Community Hospital health campus is the first step in preparing for a 21,000-square-foot addition to the Illinois Regional Cancer Center to be built next year.

SYCAMORE – Officials from Sycamore School District 427 are working to make the district meet annual yearly progress, as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

DeKALB – Students in DeKalb School District 428 aren’t the only ones who have been inconvenienced this week by a strike among local school bus drivers.

SYCAMORE – The DeKalb County Board passed a balanced budget on Wednesday – and avoided a $1.7 million deficit – by transferring nearly the same amount from a special fund into the general fund.

SHABBONA – It was almost as exciting as getting her college acceptance letter.

DeKALB – Residents of the Golden Years Plaza high rise in DeKalb have been putting up with some inconvenience this week, but the executive director of the DeKalb County Housing Authority has been assuring them it will be worth it.

DeKALB – The next steps in redeveloping a strip on the city's south side might include defining a vision, hiring a design architect, and creating a group identity.

DeKALB – The DeKalb School District is expecting to receive just $274,323 more in revenue in tax dollars next year than what it received this year.

SYCAMORE – Tapping into technological resources is the key to growing a coalition like the DeKalb County Partnership for a Safe, Active and Family Environment.

First it was a late start to planting. Then there was the cold, wet summer, leaving crops immature when the first frost hit.

DeKALB – Before bus drivers for DeKalb School District 428 went on strike this week, the union that represents them filed three unfair labor practice charges against the busing company they work for with the National Labor Relations Board.

DeKALB – Every spring, Darlene Webb invites the kids at her home daycare to help plant flowers in a small windowsill garden.

The union that represents bus drivers for the DeKalb School District and the company they work for are scheduled to resume negotiations Thursday, a spokeswoman for the busing company said late this afternoon.

GENEVA – Kane County Republican Party leaders urged the more than 300 people at a 14th Congressional District candidates forum Sunday to support whichever man wins the February primary so that the party can reclaim the seat from the Democrats.

DeKALB – Diane Schroer used to be a man.

SYCAMORE – Sycamore officials plan to increase the city’s property tax levy by 3 percent for the upcoming fiscal year.

DeKALB – Parents used to sending their children to school on a bus found themselves in the position of chauffeur Monday morning as bus drivers who transport students in DeKalb School District 428 went on strike.

CORTLAND – The DeKalb School Board narrowed the options from five to two as they continued their discussions of how to best utilize space to educate the 6,000 students who attend district schools.

A man wanted on a warrant for parole violation in Paducah, Ky., is suspected of stealing a car and other property from a residence on North State Road north of Genoa early Monday, said Chief Deputy Kevin Hickey of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office.

SYCAMORE – Two men and one woman have been arrested in connection with a July theft of $10,000 from a resident's bank account.

DeKALB – The union that represents DeKalb School District 428 bus drivers and the company they work for both said that they want to return to the negotiating table – but when that will happen was unclear Monday.

DeKALB – Bus drivers that transport students in DeKalb School District 428 are on strike as of today, causing parents to scramble to find ways to get their kids to school this morning.

GENOA – At the slowest part of Sunday's benefit breakfast at St. Catherine of Genoa church, there were still about four dozen people eating eggs and pancakes in the parish hall.

SYCAMORE — Paul Milbrandt and Don Overbey know their vastly different backgrounds have only made them closer.

DeKALB – Bus drivers that transport students in DeKalb School District 428 will be on strike as of Monday, according to the union that represents them.

Bus drivers for the DeKalb School District have voted down a proposed contract from the company they work for and could go on strike Monday morning, according to a district spokesman and a local bus driver.

SYCAMORE — The Dungeon Warriors warned their contenders Saturday that they refused to be defeated.

With winter fast approaching, downtown Genoa’s ice-skating rink is expanding and improving.

While humans are concerned about the H1N1 virus this fall and winter, a different disease might be working its way through the deer in DeKalb County.

DeKALB – With a string of recent robberies to pedestrians, local law enforcement officials reminded residents Friday of safety precautions that might help keep them safe.