The Kane County Coroner's Office announced it had positively identified the remains of Karen Schepers.

Former NIU running back LeShon Johnson was charged in connection to illegal dog fighting after federal authorities seized 190 dogs from his Oklahoma property, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this week.

The car pulled from the Fox River Tuesday that belonged to an Elgin woman who went missing in 1983 could have been recovered three years earlier but was misidentified.

When Elgin police discovered Karen Schepers’ car in the Fox River on Monday, one question immediately popped into the public’s mind: Why wasn’t it found long ago? She went missing in 1983.

Nonemergency phone lines at the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and the DeKalb County dispatch center are temporarily down, the result of a phone line unintentionally severed by utility workers Wednesday, Sheriff Andy Sullivan said.

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Motorists whose southbound commute includes Annie Glidden Road at the underpass could soon see smoother roadways after DeKalb city action this week. Plans to repave the southbound road at the underpass could be complete by August, city officials said.

A Northern Illinois University weather researcher, whose forecasts are regularly used by storm chasers across the U.S., will help lead a study for scientists to better understand hailstorms, impacts and their role in severe weather patterns.

Forty-two years after a 23-year-old Elgin woman vanished without a trace, police and a dive team searched the Fox River on Monday for clues they hoped to find in the frigid, murky water. Karen Schepers grew up in Sycamore.