Aurora News

Fire broke out in an Aurora home Sunday morning, killing an elderly man and sending a woman to the hospital.

Aurora Fire Department officials are investigating the cause of a fire in the 1500 block of Lincolnshire Avenue at about 7 a.m.Sunday morning that injured a man and woman.

Authorities found an Aurora man - wanted in a series of warrants - sleeping on the bank of the Fox River near west suburban Montgomery early Saturday following a lengthy river rescue search.

Mayor Tom Weisner, left, thanks Mary Lou Chapa for her volunteerism and presents her with a proclamation by Gov.

More than 260 pounds of marijuana and several pounds of cocaine have been taken off Aurora streets in the last six weeks, authorities announced Thursday.

Drivers with "obnoxiously loud" stereos were targeted Tuesday by Aurora police during "Operation Thump Shaker." Police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said 11 motorists were nabbed in different parts of the city for traveling with loud stereos that could be heard a minimum of 75 feet from their vehicles.

An Aurora man faces up to 30 years in prison for inappropriately touching a young girl left in his care and possessing thousands of sexual images of children on his home computers.

Skaters have been busting out nose stalls, rail stands and ollies at skate parks on Aurora's far east and west sides for years.

AURORA – Police said six Marmion Academy students were charged with felony criminal damage to property and criminal trespassing in connection with a May 27 vandalism spree that happened at the school, 1000 Butterfield Road, that caused about $2,000 in damage.

Because of the large crowd expected for the Aurora-North Aurora fireworks, the city is offering free park-and-ride shuttle services.

Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed Mayor Tom Weisner to the Pension System Modernization Task Force.

The Village Board this week granted a special-use permit that lets North Aurora Care Center continue to house mentally ill patients as long as the nursing home takes security precautions to keep those patients from harassing nearby homes and elementary school students.

Family members of a 16-year-old Aurora girl are hoping she's simply run away, and not being held against her will, after she failed to return from a trip to Chicago with friends last week.

One of the Fox Valley Park District's most popular parks is shining even brighter, visitors to its grand reopening agreed Friday.

Opening of the Geneva Underground Playhouse presentation of "Agnes of God" has been postponed because of a cast member's illness.

Dawn E. Thomas, 37, of the 1200 block of West Greenleaf Avenue, Chicago, was charged with aggravated battery, two counts of resisting arrest, assault, obstructing police and criminal trespass to land in Aurora Wednesday afternoon.

Aurora street gang member Steven Perez was found guilty early Friday afternoon on federal racketeering charges.

With less than a year under her belt, Georgia Butler's time as executive director of the Aurora Housing Authority is over.

This incident reported by the Aurora Police Department: Wednesday, June 24 About 10:10 p.m., 20-year-old Naperville man attacked by man and hit in face with small baseball bat near Prairie Street and Woodlawn Avenue on Aurora's southwest side; attacker and several other people had pulled up behind victim in white pickup truck; victim refused ...

Jun 25, 2009 10:24 am US/Central AURORA, Ill. A 38-year-old man was fatally shot while sitting on his porch in west suburban Aurora Wednesday night, and two men who were with him were also shot.