Aurora News

When the prison doors closed behind Gareng Deng five years ago, Pauline O'Neill thought the nightmare surrounding the brutal murder of her sister, Marilyn Bethell, had ended.

NORTH AURORA – A 21-year-old man was airlifted after an accident early Wednesday in North Aurora, according to a North Aurora Police Department news release.

A report was received Monday afternoon a bicycle was stolen from a front yard in the 100 block of South Everett Street.

An autopsy is expected to take place on the remains of a 27-year-old Yorkville man whose badly decomposed body was discovered this week in his home - likely months after he died.

Turtles wandering through front yards. A turtle that, at first glance, appeared to have wandered successfully across the entrance road at the North Aurora Outlet Mall.

That's why I'll be doing a fair amount of paraphrasing for this column. Plus, Hill's yard sign that's been attracting so much attention speaks for itself: The man doesn't want people letting their dogs use his property in Aurora like a toilet.

A northwest suburban man was charged Tuesday with robbing two Aurora banks and another in DuPage County within a span of 10 days.

East Aurora School District needs to update its curriculum, offer more support to teachers and provide consistent amounts of instruction time across the district, according to two reports presented to the school board Monday that were conducted by outside consultants.

A 20-year-old Aurora man has been charged with damaging state-supported property after he used the button on his pants to scratch a phrase into the door of a jail cell, Aurora police said.

The automated system, which is similar to systems used in Chicago parking garages, was launched May 29 and after a test period, is now fully functional, said city spokesman Dan Ferrelli.

TBD This is a full-time Opthalmic Tech opportunity at Dreyer Medical Clinic in Aurora, Il.

The fight over building permits for the Aurora, Ill. Planned Parenthood clinic is just one more example of how the fight over reproductive health is coming down to questions of infrastructure.

Who loves haggis?: Marvel at the competitions in heavy sports, Highland dancing and even frozen haggis tossing at the 27th Annual Scottish Festival & Highland Games at Hamilton Lakes, Thorndale Avenue and Route 53, Itasca.

A three-liter bottle of 1972 vintage Bordeaux sat breathing on the bar of VARA Gallery, an adequate accent to an evening of fine art and high design in the burgeoning Aurora art scene.

Three Aurora men were charged with armed robbery after police said that the men attempted to steal "rare and expensive" gym shoes from another man late last week.

Residents and small business owners in North Aurora will return to Commonwealth Edison's electric service July 1 for at least the next couple of months, the Village Board has decided.

Oswego and Montgomery home and business owners will see an increase on the wastewater treatment bills they receive every other month from the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District.

These are incidents reported by the Naperville Police Department. Where charges have been filed, the report includes when and where the suspect was stopped or taken into custody and the nature of the charges.

Hollywood Casino Aurora is celebrating its 20th anniversarytoday, and city officials say it has offered a "significant" boost in revenue throughout the past two decades, adding $238.7 million in taxes to city coffers.

The next step for the facility designed to revitalize the city's downtown and Fox River shorelines will be a pedestrian bridge linking park land on both sides of the river.