It's Academic: December 25, 2010

• Heat hasn't worked in weeks at Northeast Philly senior housing, residents say

  

• Driver hits Illinois State Police squad car on Route 53 in northwest suburbs

  

• Detroit author creates coloring book to teach Black History across generations

  

• New York man sentenced to 5 years probation for cyberstalking in Maryland

  

• New ICE detention center in Georgia sparks outcry in Social Circle

  

• Illinois lawmakers close to Bears stadium deal in Arlington Heights, sources say

  

• California to ban blackjack-style games from cardrooms by April

  

• Judge: Colorado woman's neglect at hands of her son, his girlfriend, "so horrible, so tortuous"