South Elgin News

A former U-46 teacher has sued the district, arguing she was essentially fired and discriminated against after a hospitalization in fall 2010.

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Two people are charged with delivering a fatal dose of heroin to a 24-year-old South Elgin woman last month.

During 2012, the department responded 2,627 requests for service. This figure includes 948 fire responses and 1,679 emergency medical responses.

Dave Ginsberg of Geneva finished first with a time of 18:49 at The Hope For Haitians 5K on Saturday in Geneva.

The South Elgin and Countryside Fire Protection District will celebrate its 60th anniversary with an open house from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at Fire Station No.

Mothers and grandmothers can hop on a trolley for a free Mother's Day trolley ride at the Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin.

Spectators watch from a deck over the Fox River as the Mid-American Canoe and Kayak Race.

For Colleen and Chris Ottens, concern for the plight of the people of Haiti is something never far from their mind.

GENEVA – For 30 years, the Miller family has fixed shoes, purses, baseball mitts, luggage and riding boots at their shop, Geneva Shoe Repair, 15 N. Fourth St., Geneva.

The award is named for former Courier-News publisher and Judson University board member D. Ray Wilson, who started the annual Community Prayer Breakfast at Judson in 1989.

Steven Angvick removes the seat from “Bessy,” the 1919 Model-T that belongs to the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, while they were working on it last year.

If it wasn't enough that a northwest suburban man accidentally shot his brother at their home on Sunday night, police say the man's 2-year-old child was in the room at the time, and there was marijuana in the house.

Members of a Fox Valley vehicle club are restoring a 1919 Model T Coupe for the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home in Dixon.

Circling the computer lab Monday upstairs at South Elgin High School with another teacher and student teacher, Mary Blair swooped in on a group of five seniors doing more talking than typing.

BATAVIA – Long before the first fire engine flashed its lights and let loose a siren wail, parents, grandparents and children lined the streets of Batavia for the Loyalty Day Parade on Sunday.

A police officer pulled over the driver of a car driving with its brights on and speeding early Sunday morning to discover the front-seat passenger had been shot.

Visitors to Dunham Castle in Wayne peek out windows on the second floor on Saturday.

GENEVA – Jamie Vargo, owner of Vargo's Dance in Geneva, had long resisted having her second business, Smuzi Juice Bar, open on Sundays.

T.J. Gleason, a kindergartener at Corron Elementary School, is reunited with his dad, Sgt.