SouthtownStar

The Rich Township High School District 227 board met for the first time Tuesday with Donna Leak as superintendent, and one board member has already challenged her to make some changes.

A Tinley Park Village Board committee would like to see another business in the former Wheatfield Restaurant site but is not keen on offering tax incentives to lure it.

An insurance card with a policy number, but no name, helped police determine that a body found over the weekend in a Joliet park was that of missing Orland Park businessman Ibrahim Nofal.

Navy Lt. Dane Elles received a hometown hero's welcome Tuesday evening after returning to his Frankfort family from his mission in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Lockport Township High School is freezing administrative salaries for the upcoming school year.

As a former Benedictine nun, Republican Barbara Bellar thinks there might have been a bit more at play than mere coincidence when incumbent state Rep. Kevin Joyce decided to bolt the Illinois General Assembly for a job at a Catholic university in Florida.

To better prepare students for the real world, Lincoln-Way Special Education District 843 will build the first "transition house" in Will County.

Southland College Prep Charter School is accusing Rich Township High School District 227 of texting, calling and visiting parents, telling them to pull their children out of the charter school.

Forget the YMCA. Now it's just the Y.

BP expects to attach a new, tighter cap to its leaking well later in the day and then testing will be needed before it's clear if the oil has stopped spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.

As they fought back tears, friends of Adam Wheeler tried Sunday to recall happy memories about the 25-year-old Park Forest man.

Chicago police are honoring an officer who was killed in the line of duty last year.

Prosecutors say six people from the Oakland, Calif., area used fake credit cards to get cash and merchandise in seven states.

Two Chicago-area cousins who pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot to attack American soldiers overseas have been sentenced in Ohio to prison.

A gunman opened fire at an Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer on Monday, killing five people and wounding four others before turning the gun on himself in what police said was a domestic violence dispute.

A Midlothian police officer was dragged by a car Monday before the officer wounded the driver, who was suspected of stealing catalytic converters from a used-car lot.

Police are calling the death of a Calumet Township trustee who drowned Saturday at a Blue Island Park District pool after drinking there during an after-hours party a "tragic accident."