DeKalb News

Sheriff Jeff Doran has announced that the 2013 Illinois Sheriff's Association scholarship winner is Kimberly Johnson.

Ellis' office and Stone Mountain home were raided by authorities in January as part of a special grand jury investigation into the county's watershed department.

The DeKalb County Convention & Visitors Bureau is pleased to welcome the annual MS Bike: Tour de Farms event back to DeKalb County.

Editor's note: Information in Police Briefs is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office and city police departments.

SPRINGFIELD – Turns out, no one in the state's capital thinks pension reform will get passed during Gov. Pat Quinn's one-day special session either.

Cancer survivor Raegan Mann, 6, of DeKalb decides what candy she wants Friday during the 17th annual Relay For Life of DeKalb County at Sycamore High School.

Cancer survivor Raegan Mann, 6, of DeKalb, receives a balloon poodle from cancer survivor Roger Ray during the 17th annual Relay for Life of DeKalb County at Sycamore High School on Friday, June 14, 2013.

DeKALB – The DeKalb Park Board members spent 45 minutes discussing personnel behind closed doors Thursday but made no comment on Executive Director Cindy Capek's status afterward.

Morgan, music coordinator at JJC, is among 217 other music educators in the United States, and 14 in Illinois, who have been nominated for the first-ever Music Educator Award that will be presented by the Recording Academy - and the Grammy Foundation - in February 2014.

CHICAGO – A nonprofit trying to start a virtual charter school in northern Illinois withdrew its proposal before a state commission had the chance Tuesday to decide whether to deny the group's appeal.

DeKALB – The DeKalb City Council will hold a public hearing Aug. 12 on establishing two tax increment financing districts in the city.

DeKalb running back Dre Brown didn't even know Kent State and Toledo were keeping an eye on him, but coaches from the pair of Ohio Mid-American Conference schools approached him at a camp at Ohio State on Sunday and offered him scholarships on the spot.

Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com DeKalb firefighters Tom Conley and Greg Thornton remove broken glass from a frame after a Chevrolet Traverse crashed into the 7-Eleven at 802 S. Fourth St. in DeKalb, Ill., Monday, June 10, 2013.

About 350 students graduated. They have feet in their shoes. And on the brink of major life changes, they likely can steer themselves in whatever direction they choose.

Joshua Walker, 31, accepts his graduation certificate from Judge Robbin Stuckert at the DeKalb County Drug/DUI Court Choosing Life and Ending Abuse Now program's 10th graduation ceremony Friday.

The DeKalb City Council signed off on a $423,900 tax-increment financing loan to John Pappas, owner of Pappas Development, in late May to redevelop the Small's Furniture site into a restaurant or retail center.

The Sycamore resident paid $63.82 to fill up the tank of his Ford Ranger at the Road Ranger in DeKalb on Friday, which was the most gas he had to pay for.

University of Illinois Extension's fifth annual Openfields Farm Tour is scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 8, and will feature farms and farm businesses throughout DeKalb, McHenry, Winnebago and Stephenson counties.

Kaneland emerges with NIB-12 All-Sports Trophy by Mike Slodki KANELAND-You'd be hard pressed to argue with the facts.

The iconic supermodel was clearly in a nostalgic mood as she wistfully captioned the scrapbook snap saying that it was her 'first cover'.