College baseball entered its second week of the regular season, and while several area teams bounced back after tough opening series, one team remains without a win after seven games to begin the year. Here is a breakdown of how our area teams did over the weekend. Results: Illinois continued its losing run on Friday when they dropped their opener…

While professional baseball teams are in Arizona and Florida beginning their preparations for the 2020 season, the collegiate baseball season got underway over the weekend, with over 100 teams throwing out the first pitches of the new campaign. Despite all the excitement surrounding the opening weekend, there wasn’t a lot to celebrate for the area’s crop of Division I teams….

Most kids have temper tantrums at some point, but researchers at Northwestern University have found toddlers with delayed speech are twice as likely to have severe, frequent tantrums, and are encouraging families to seek help sooner rather than later. In the “When to Worry” study, researchers at Northwestern University say they have proved the link between delayed speech and severe…

Research is looking to identify the link between delayed speech development in toddlers and severe and frequent tantrums. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty explains.

Days after the Northwestern University student newspaper published a controversial editorial apologizing for its coverage of a campus visit by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the dean of the university’s Medill School of Journalism is defending the students involved.

Northwestern University’s student newspaper published an editorial on Sunday that has since drawn widespread condemnation over the paper’s apology for its coverage of a campus visit from former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Eight members of the editorial board of The Daily Northwestern began the piece by writing that in covering Sessions’ event and the ensuing protests on Nov. 5,...

Some good health news: Americans’ cholesterol levels are dropping, and more people at especially high risk are getting treatment. Researchers say Monday’s report suggests a controversial change in recommendations for cholesterol treatment may be starting to pay off. “It is very heartening,” said Dr. Pankaj Arora of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who led the study. “But there is...

Evanston residents were divided at a meeting on Monday night over Northwestern University’s proposal to hold entertainment and commercial events at arenas near residential neighborhoods.

President Donald Trump’s vision of America’s tomorrows looks much like its yesterdays. He loves “beautiful” coal. “Beautiful” warships. And “those four beautiful words: MADE IN THE USA!” He speaks of the country’s might as measured by its steel mills, farms and cars rolling off Detroit assembly lines. He’s not merely summoning happy memories. His nostalgia shapes policy and lives,...

A pair of Chicago-area universities are among the best in the nation, according to a new ranking of the top schools in America.

The polarizing politics of climate change have forced companies to choose between supporting the Trump administration’s deregulation policies that could boost profits or opposing them to win over environmentally conscious consumers. That dynamic played out again Thursday when President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency sought to revoke regulations on methane gas emissions from oil facilities. British Petroleum, ExxonMobil and Royal...

A lawyer for a former Northwestern University professor charged in the 2017 stabbing death of his boyfriend responded to a co-defendant’s guilty plea with a vow to continue fighting the charges.

A former Northwestern University professor charged in the gruesome 2017 stabbing death of his boyfriend in Chicago was expected to appear in court Tuesday.

A former Northwestern University professor charged in the gruesome 2017 stabbing death of his boyfriend in Chicago was expected to appear in court Tuesday. Sandra Torres reports.

A British man charged in the 2017 stabbing death of another man in Chicago has pleaded guilty in a deal that calls for him to testify against a former Northwestern University professor also charged in the killing in exchange for a 45-year-prison sentence.