Check out scores, stories and photos from Friday night's prep football action.

Find in-depth analysis on your high school football team's outlook for the 2008 season, including key players, preseason photos and a conference breakdown.

A gas line ruptured by a road construction crew working to widen I-55 in Joliet on Wednesday morning resulted in the death of a Des Plaines man who crashed his van into a semi-truck a few miles south of the gas leak after traffic backed up due to lane closures.

ONLINE POLL: Would you let your child boycott the first day of school to protest poor school funding?

Ray McGury, Bolingbrook chief of police the last three years, will be the next executive director of the Naperville Park District.

It was like any other afternoon at Yoda’s house in Downers Grove. Eat some food, find a sunny spot to nap for a few hours and peer out the screen door for any chipmunks making a move.