Check out police and fire reports for Brookfield and Riverside.

Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital is restricting visitors due to concerns about spreading the H1N1 and seasonal flu viruses based on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Riverside Brookfield High School students will be performing their annual fall play this weekend.

Westchester’s efforts to commemorate Veterans’ Day has run into a wall, literally and on purpose.

Riverside Brookfield High School Township District 208 is stalling its search for a new superintendent in hopes of finding a new, permanent principal, School Board President James Marciniak confirmed Monday, Nov. 2.

A locked door keeps unwanted visitors out of the house at night or during the day when homeowner is away. It also keeps out a police officer or firefighter when duty calls.

A man has been charged with attempted murder and home invasion following the discovery of his 81-year-old aunt, who was found by police unconscious lying on the floor of her La Grange Park home Oct. 29.
 

The South East Association for Special Parks and Recreation will hold its third annual Holiday Spectacular at 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Theatre of Western Springs, 4384 Hampton Ave.

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

The Riverside Brookfield High School Township District 208 Board of Education is expected to determine whether they will continue a superintendent search or focus on finding a new principal this week.

The school board of Riverside Brookfield High School Township District 208 will hold a planning meeting with Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates Ltd. at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Superintendent’s Conference Room of Riverside Brookfield High School, 160 Ridgewood Road in Riverside.

Just how serious a problem is it when pharmaceuticals are flushed down the toilet and get in the sanitary sewer system?

Sister Helen Prejean walked out of the Louisiana State Prison execution chamber April 5, 1984, and vomited after she watched Elmo Patrick Sonnier die in the electric chair for the murder of two teenagers.

Lauren Brozyna had an active sports life as a volleyball and soccer player at Nazareth Academy.
That ended while she started college at the University of Iowa.

A man posing as someone doing work at a woman’s home in the 9100 block of Cermak Road in North Riverside robbed her at about 10:20 a.m. Oct. 21, police said.