No. 21 Northwestern ends drought in Gator Bowl

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. | The stuffed monkey spent the last year in storage, out of sight but still in everyone's mind.

Five Big Ten school get ready to Bowl

The turnaround at Minnesota has passed a significant milestone. The Gophers are going to a bowl game.

Upsets plentiful in balanced Big Ten

Indiana gets it now.

Appling leads No. 16 Michigan State against IU

No. 16 Michigan State 80, No. 13 Indiana 65

"The Secret Garden" at Light Opera Works

Light Opera Works welcomes 2012 with a production of "The Secret Garden," directed and choreographed by Stacey Flaster at Northwestern University's Cahn Auditorium running through Sunday, Jan. 1.

Northwestern tops Eastern Illinois

EVANSTON, Ill. | John Shurna scored 32 points, including a school-record tying nine 3-pointers, as Northwestern defeated Eastern Illinois 87-72 Sunday night.

Nebraska's arrival creates two Big Ten divisions, need for title game

Remember the three-way title that capped the 2010 Big Ten football season?

Calumet students track DNA clues

CALUMET TWP. | For some Calumet High School students, a presentation from representatives of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, brought their project-based assignment on DNA to life.

Calumet students track DNA clues

Penny Beerntsen, a speaker/advocate on criminal justice issues, tells how she had a hand in a wrongful conviction. Behind her is a mug shot of Steven Avery, the man who was wrongly convicted and later exonerated thanks to the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Beerntsen was speaking to sophomores …

Calumet students track DNA clues

From left, Kayla Brooks and Amanda Bratton, sophomores at Calumet High School, talk with Catherine Schur, a student at Northwestern University School of Law, after Schur gave a presentation about DNA and wrongful convictions to sophomores at the school.

Calumet students track DNA clues

Sophomore Haley Johnson listens to a presentation on wrongful convictions given by Northwestern University School of Law as part of her biohealth course at Calumet High.

Cavs confirm contact with Big Ten coach Izzo

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio | Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert refused to comment Tuesday on reports he has offered a job to Michigan State's Tom Izzo and says superstar free agent LeBron James will not be consulted during the team's search for a new coach.

Northwestern University lockdown ended

Northwestern University's Rubloff Building on the downtown Chicago campus is no longer in lockdown after a man with a gun was spotted there, according to the school's Web site.