Tensions between the city and the Aurora Election Commission came to a head last week, when commissioners denied a city-sponsored referendum to abolish the election authority a spot on November's ballot.

Suzanne Zettle, 52, taught fourth grade at Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary, 2700 Stonebridge, Aurora, until state budget cuts hit Indian Prairie School District 204 in March.

On June 24, Aurora resident Karen Miller was rushed to the hospital. For the past two years, she'd suffered from shortness of breath, but this time she was having chest pains and didn't look good.

Share + Sep 2, 2010 11:12 am US/Central AURORA, Ill. 1 of 1 Naomi Johnson, 78, was stabbed in her hospital bed at Provena-Mercy Medical Center in Aurora on Aug.

The man charged with stabbing an elderly patient in an Aurora hospital will appear in a Kane County court Thursday for a bond hearing.

After a brief trial Wednesday afternoon, an Aurora attorney was found not guilty of chest-bumping another attorney during a courthouse confrontation.

Kevin Williams, 31, of the 1000 block of North Highland Avenue, Aurora, was charged with felony burglary, theft and possession of burglary tools as well as misdemeanor theft after he took a GPS, electronic dictionary and cell phone case from a car in the driveway of a home in the 900 block of North Lancaster Avenue in Aurora on Sunday, the Kane ...

Heartland Blood Center, 1200 N. Highland Ave., Aurora, 630-892-7056, www.heartlandbc.org, has announced blood drives in the Fox Valley in September.

Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti says he will seek an appointment to the bench when a local judge retires this year.

Police have released a sketch of a suspect who sexually assaulted a woman as she worked in a community garden in Aurora this past weekend.

Health authorities are reporting progress in containing a tuberculosis outbreak in Kane County, west of Chicago.

A man is in custody for stabbing a 78-year-old woman in her hospital room at Provena Mercy Medical Center in Aurora.

Howard Arenkill Sr. was a man who appreciated tradition. Which only makes sense, since he was part of a long one.

The interior designer Crystal Blackshaw of Blackshaw Designs first started repurposing vintage and antique furniture after having her daughter; in June, she launched Chic Antique .

Naperville police said an Aurora woman was stabbed at a Naperville apartment complex Monday night.

Two more batches of mosquitoes have tested positive for the West Nile disease, the Kane County Health Department said Tuesday, making for a total of nine so far this season in the county.

Eleven-year-old Vanessa Varela had help from her mother in selecting a new bright white shirt and stylish blue denim jacket to wear in her first year at Waldo Middle School.

Charles McGath, 36, 800 block of Bishop Street, Aurora, was charged with a number of felonies and two misdemeanors on Sunday after he was involved in a fight with a weapon, the Kane County state's attorney's office said.

Kane County planners want Geneva's opinion about public transportation, both on a Randall Road bus route that exists today and for the county in the next 30 years.

Police were asking the public Monday for help identifying a man who sexually assaulted a woman at an Aurora forest preserve.