Tim Epperson News Today

As I was driving here from Illinois — after being stuck in North Platte, Nebraska, for two days due to a blizzard — I was eagerly awaiting to see the

Tim Epperson had every intention of being a biology major in college. After taking his first journalism class — and retaking calculus twice — he began to write for the

But for the actions of a couple of volunteer firefighters and a nearby brush truck, the Fourth of July fireworks display in Sycamore might have ended in disaster.