Big-time college recruits and state title contenders take the court next week when the high school girls basketball season tips off. Check out your team's prospects here.

If there were a more effective way of weeding out ne’er-do-wells on the Internet, I’d strongly recommend using it. Such a mechanism would be helpful in identifying those who have good intentions and those who want to rip you off.

Lyons Township's volleyball team proved it deserved to be playing for the Class 4A state title Saturday at Redbird Arena in Normal.

A 21-year-old man is in police custody after leading police on a short chase through a cemetery where he drove over gravestones, knocking over one of them.

Check out police and fire reports for Brookfield, Riverside, La Grange and Westchester.

This summer, Illinois lawmakers legalized video gambling in bars and restaurants to raise funds for capital projects. Since then, more than a dozen communities in the western suburbs have banned the machines, and several more are poised to outlaw them before the end of this year. As many more towns weigh a gambling ban, however, the overall amount of revenue video gambling is projected to raise for the state — estimated at more than 25 percent of the $31 billion capital projects bill — has been put into doubt.

Before the Metra came to town, Brookfielders got around on a streetcar line. Here are five things you probably didn’t know about the Brookfield streetcar system.

Zach Pearsall, Chris Meingast and Billy McGuinness joined the Lyons Township varsity soccer team in 2006 as naive freshmen with lofty dreams of a state title. Four years later, that naivety turned into reality.

As the Western Sun sets, Glenbard South looks to the east. The Raiders will be the newest member of the Metro Suburban Conference when the 2010-11 season kicks off.

Two men were charged in connection with two Brookfield residential burglaries that occurred Oct. 26.

Two Berwyn men were charged in connection with two Brookfield residential burglaries that occurred Oct. 26.

Stone Park Police have charged 30-year-old Nicholas Carrino of Westchester with the murder of a Niles man who was found shot in the chest following an altercation Wednesday morning, Nov. 4.

Brookfield Zoo officials denied Suburban Life’s Freedom of Information Act request for the release of Affie the elephant’s necropsy report in a letter Oct. 29.

Seeing how polarizing the debate on health care reform has been this past year among Americans, it’s odd to find common ground with four House members whose political ideologies run the gamut. It’s not that all statements say the same thing, but somehow each contains sentiments with which I agree.

Check out letters to the editor in the Nov. 4 Suburban Life Newspaper.

The Lyons Township boys soccer team did something Tuesday no other team could do all year: Beat top-ranked Neuqua Valley. The Lions avenged two regular season losses to the Wildcats and earned a berth in the state tournament.