When DeKalb police Detective Kelly Sullivan saw the home of Patricia Wilson and Robert Wilson the night they were found beaten to death Aug. 15, 2016, she said her investigative training pointed to a “sloppy” killer. The murder trial of Jonathan D. Hurst continued Friday.

The Serena girls basketball team defeated Hinckley-Big Rock 50-41 in Friday's Little Ten Conference Tournament title game at Earlville. It's the fourth consecutive championship for the Huskers.

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Jonathan Crail, senior pastor at the First United Methodist Church of DeKalb, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in the sanctuary at the church.

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Organizers of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of DeKalb warming center talk about the facility which is open nightly during the winter months and offers a hot meal and a warm, safe place for community members.

Family members of Patricia Wilson and Robert Wilson took the witness stand Thursday to recount finding their slain loved ones on Aug. 15, 2016. The double murder trial of Jonathan D. Hurst, a former Chicago man charged in their 2016 killings, continues Friday.

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Check out some of the best pictures captured by Daily Chronicle photographers for Shaw Local News Network the week of Jan. 17-23, 2025.

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The DeKalb-Sycamore co-op boys swimming team hosted Metea Valley Thursday night at Huntley Middle School in DeKalb.

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Opening statements were made and testimony began Thursday in the double murder trial of Jonathan D. Hurst at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Sycamore. Hurst is charged in the 2016 slayings of Sycamore mother and son Patricia Wilson, 85, and Robert Wilson, 64.

With a jury selected, a long-awaited murder trial is expected to convene Thursday for Jonathan Hurst, charged almost five years ago in the killings of Sycamore elderly mother and son Patricia and Robert Wilson. The Wilsons were found slain in their home in August 2016.