The basketball players at Northern Illinois University didn't get much sleep this summer because their workouts started at 6:30 a.m. The team also spent more time in the weight room than in years past, lifting four days a week instead of three. On Fridays, they joined the football team for quickness and agility drills.
The NFL's summer draft is upon us as nearly a half dozen players have decided to turn pro after being declared ineligible or partially suspended. Except for a few blips on the radar the supplemental draft usually offers sub-par prospects, but the excitement this year centers around several well known college players. Here are five prospects in the supplemental draft with a real chance to make it onto an active roster or practice squad come September, along with what pick a team should offer for the player.
The Postal Service is offering a $20,000 buyout to thousands of veteran workers as part of its bid to eliminate 7,500 administrative jobs, the agency announced Thursday.
A company that sold firearms merchandise to the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University shooters also sold firearm accessories to a man who fatally shot three women in a Pennsylvania gym earlier this week.
CNN's Susan Candiotti reports on new videos found of gym shooter George Sodini.
In an exclusive report, CNN's Abbie Boudreau previews new details about the Northern Illinois classroom shooter.
A former student who killed five people at Northern Illinois University last Valentine's Day had been drummed out of the Army for hiding his psychiatric history and expressed admiration for famous murderers, CNN has learned.
Eric Mace says he thought he was giving his daughter good advice by asking her to sit up front in class.
The final chapter of the 60th annual Senior Bowl was completed on Saturday night after the team from the South defeated the North 35-18. Like the preceding week of practices, the game provided several performances of note and a few to forget.
Wednesday was the final day of practice in pads and the most important practice of the week for NFL scouts. The intensity was turned up several notches as players had a lot riding on the line.
Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back
The owner of a company that sold firearm merchandise to both the Virginia Tech University and Northern Illinois University shooters said he will sell his guns at cost for the next two weeks in hopes that "law-abiding" citizens will buy them to prevent similar tragedies.
College students are faced with many challenges each day. It's tough to balance a job with hours of homework, and to pay attention in class while planning an escape route from a lecture hall seat.
A message scrawled in a university bathroom -- "Be prepared to die on 4/14" -- left not just the college's campus empty Monday, but also those of two adjoining high schools and a pair of nearby elementary schools
Critics deride Illinois' plan to spend $40 million to raze the building where the NIU mass murders took place
The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday.
The man who killed several students at Northern Illinois University had asked his godfather for help choosing weapons.
The revelation from Steven Kazmierczak's girlfriend that he had stopped taking an antidepressant a few weeks before his rampage at Northern Illinois University has reopened debate about whether the drug can cause violent behavior.
Time to remember
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The grief felt at Northern Illinois University is similar to what students at Virginia Tech had to endure last year.
Steven Kazmierczak had been taking three drugs prescribed for him by his psychiatrist, the Northern Illinois University gunman's girlfriend told CNN.
St. Peter's College locked down its campus Wednesday after receiving e-mails saying bombs were planted in campus buildings, authorities said
Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly with a gun law after Virginia Tech's shooting, but it came too late for Northern Illinois University and it is unclear whether it would have made a difference
I-Reporter Eddie Brewer captures emergency officials rushing a gurney off the Northern Illinois University campus.
This week's deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University leaves police, campus officials and students with many unanswered questions.
The girlfriend of the gunman who killed five people and then himself at Northern Illinois University last Thursday told CNN there was "no indication he was planning something."
CNN's Abbie Boudreau has the exclusive interview with Jessica Baty, who was the NIU shooter's girlfriend for two years.
CNN's Abbie Boudreau asks students and faculty at NIU what they think of the campus security.
A laptop computer seized from a DeKalb motel and believed to be connected to Thursday's deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University had no hard drive, federal officials said Saturday.
The Chicago Blackhawks will wear NIU Huskies decals on their helmets during Sunday's home game to honor those killed in the shooting at Northern Illinois University.
Northern Illinois University is still reeling from the deadly Valentine's Day campus shooting. CNN's Allan Chernoff reports.
Eyewitness: All it took was six minutes for a college lecture course to become a killing field
Northern Illinois University on Friday identified the man who fatally shot five people in a classroom as Steven P. Kazmierczak, whom police described as an award-winning student "revered" by colleagues and faculty.
CNN's Dan Lothian reports on a professor and adviser who knew Kazmierczak well, but saw no red flags.
Police Chief Donald Grady says there is no known motive for the shooting at Northern Illinois University.
A firearms dealer in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Friday confirmed a bizarre link between the graduate student accused of killing five people at Northern Illinois University and the gunman in last year's deadly shootings at Virginia Tech.
A gunman dressed in black walked from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall Thursday at Northern Illinois University and shot 22 people, four fatally, then killed himself, authorities said.
A Northern Illinois University student says the gunman entered a classroom and opened fire with a shotgun and pistol.
Authorities say a man dressed in black opened fire from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing four people and himself
If putting money behind a consummate failure sounds like looney tunes to you, consider the case of Hans Heidler. The 30-year-old store manager from Algonquin, Ill. is a collector of animation cels ...
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