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Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Kirkland police officers including Alton E. Parker, Jr. (from left to right), Nevres Gibic, and Edward Muchala participate in a Rapid Response training drill at Hiawatha Elementary School in Kirkland, Ill., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. Eight members of the Kirkland Police Department participated in the drills which began at 8 a.m. and concluded at 4 p.m. Training instructor Joe Drought, Chief at the Rock Valley College Police Department, said the one-day course is designed to "teach officers to make an immediate response to an active shooter or ongoing threats to human life."
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Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

Kirkland police officers including Alton E. Parker, Jr. (from left to right), Nevres Gibic, and Edward Muchala participate in a Rapid Response training drill at Hiawatha Elementary School in Kirkland, Ill., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. Eight members of the Kirkland Police Department participated in the drills which began at 8 a.m. and concluded at 4 p.m. Training instructor Joe Drought, Chief at the Rock Valley College Police Department, said the one-day course is designed to "teach officers to make an immediate response to an active shooter or ongoing threats to human life."

  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Dr. Leonard Kouba, a retired Northern Illinois geography professor, has traveled all over the world hunting and fishing and setting records along the way. Kouba is pictured in one of the rooms in his Sycamore home that has a collection of African masks on it on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Danika's cousin Vincint Lopez tries to get Danika to fight with him, using one of the Mortal Kombat films (background) as a motivation at Danika's mother's house in DeKalb on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Joann Blough wrestles in the snow with niece Breiona Mendez (top) as Blough's grandson Liam Kaemke (left) and nephew Brandyn Rosario (right) ambush the pair with snowballs in front of Liam's home in DeKalb, Ill. on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. Blough said she decided to come over and build snowmen with the kids when she heard school was canceled, but it evolved into a snowball fight.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Ramon Medina of the Chicago Hornets practices shooting before a wheelchair basketball game hosted by the Northern Illinois Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities and the Center for Access-Ability Resources at the NIU Student Recreation Center in DeKalb Thursday evening.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Kaylee Skeens, 4, talks to her mother, Suzanne Skeens, while Suzanne gets a free massage from Stacy Vermeis of Sheedy Chiropractic during the Community Expo at DeKalb High School on Tuesday, April 3, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Drug Court Probation Officer Mike Douglas accepts a urine sample from Matt Jordan in a bathroom at the DeKalb County Courthouse on Friday, March 16, 2012 after being in drug court. Jordan also has to call in every day before 8:30 a.m. throughout the duration of his time in drug court to see if he has to go to the courthouse for a random drug test.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Navy GSE3(SW) Justin Cano of DeKalb kisses his girlfriend, Kayla Bishop, as she holds her son, Drake Bishop, 8-months-old, upon arrival at Sullivan's Tavern Saturday for a welcome home celebration. Cano was escorted by a DeKalb fire engine followed by a group Warriors' Watch Riders, family and friends.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Hinckley-Big Rock graduating seniors Kris Beitel (center) and Cory Bradburn play with their tassels as Kim Halverson delivers some last words to the group as they wait in line before the ceremony on Sunday, May 20, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Deserea Schiller, 3 of DeKalb, sits inside her new bookcase that she received as the DeKalb/Sycamore Bookcase Project distributed its first round of bookcases after a ceremony at Huntley Middle School in DeKalb Saturday afternoon. Recipients also received a bag filled with books. The personalized bookcases were built by local craftsmen with donations from local residents that were awarded to children from the Two Rivers Head Start program.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Abbiggail Cowles, 2, holds a snow globe while being held upside down by her father, Patrick Cowles, as the two play outside their Sycamore home Tuesday. Abbiggail, who was diagnosed with autism in July 2011, attends three separate therapy sessions a week.<br /> <br /> Sycamore, Ill.<br /> Tuesday, April 24, 2012
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> William Moon (left), 9, and Kenneth Weeks, 8, take turns reading a book outside Gideon Court Apartments in DeKalb Tuesday evening. The two were participating in a free summer reading vacation program presented by Neighbors' House.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> The DeKalb Municipal Band plays as fireworks explode over the band shell at Hopkins Park in DeKalb, Ill. on Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> T.J. McNeal, of Kirkland, leans in for a closer look at a computer screen where <br /> Dr. Jeffrey Frank of Spex Expressions <br /> shows pictures to illustrate how a type of lens might improve his vision on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. Five-year-old T.J., who was accompanied to the appointment by his mother Kristie McNeal (background), starts kindergarten at Immanuel Lutheran School in Belvidere, Ill. on Thursday.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Firefighters respond to a barn fire located on West Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Ryan Harden (top), of Sheboygan, Wis., finishes off Brian Raab, of Madison, Wis., during a live action role playing event at Stonehouse Park in Earlville Saturday.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> DeKalb High School senior Jaylene Thompson clears sticky notes off of the windshield of her white Volkswagen Beetle as she talks to her poms advisor Julie Craven (not pictured), who filled the car with balloons and covered it with sticky notes in the high school's parking lot with the help of some of the other girls on the poms squad on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. The car was the latest in an ongoing prank war between the two that started a few weeks earlier over Thompson's desire for the poms to perform a Taylor Swift song.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Dan Peterson holds his Egyptian Fruit Bat during his Incredible Bats presentation at Haish Gym in DeKalb Saturday afternoon.<br /> <br /> Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Seventh-grader Grace Ballas hugs her former teacher Alison Bryant, a breast cancer survivor, after Ballas shaved her head at an all-school assembly at Somonauk Middle School on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Ballas raised $2,758 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Sycamore resident DJ Kurtzman tries to clean his beard with his tongue after winning a pie eating contest at the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Kirkland police officers including Alton E. Parker, Jr. (from left to right), Nevres Gibic, and Edward Muchala participate in a Rapid Response training drill at Hiawatha Elementary School in Kirkland, Ill., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. Eight members of the Kirkland Police Department participated in the drills which began at 8 a.m. and concluded at 4 p.m. Training instructor Joe Drought, Chief at the Rock Valley College Police Department, said the one-day course is designed to "teach officers to make an immediate response to an active shooter or ongoing threats to human life."
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