N. Illinois honors victims at game (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

The message was impossible to miss: "Forward, Together Forward," read the banner hanging outside the arena. A line in Northern Illinois ' fight song, it's now a mantra for a school and community still recovering. NIU took another small step Tuesday night, when it hosted Western Michigan in the first athletic event on campus since a gunman killed five students in a lecture hall before taking his own...

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