Aurora, Ill. - A 13-year-old boy who brought a loaded .357 handgun to his west suburban middle told police he just wanted to show it to his friends. Now the seventh-grader at Waldo Middle School in Aurora is facing two felony charges and will be ...

This year, Aurora celebrates its 175th anniversary. The Aurora Historical Society is planning events throughout the year, and more information about those celebrations is available at aurorahistory.net. As part of The Beacon-News’ role in honoring Aurora ...

Voters won’t weigh in on electricity aggregation in Aurora until March 20, but leaders already are preparing the next steps in case residents vote to allow city government to buy electricity for the community as a whole. Aldermen are expected ...

Aiken Regional Medical Centers celebrated the opening of Aurora Pavilion Behavioral Health Services' recently completed 10,000-square-foot wing expansion with an open house Thursday evening. Among a crowd of hospital employees, community leaders and ...

AURORA, Colo. -- Lead by Aurora's school superintendent John Barry, members of the truancy reduction team bravely walked from home to home on Tuesday, looking to find kids who ought to be in class. “There are some parents that just feel that ...

Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Latest from The Business Journals Colby takes on different level of health care Hospital occupancy rates drop sharply Many area hospitals had profitable 2010 Follow this ...

About 20 volunteers gave clothing, food and community to families in need Saturday morning at St. John United Church of Christ's monthly Community Clothes Closet in Aurora. The monthly event is the church's way of building up families on Aurora ...

Thirty-five-year-old Jamshid Muhtorov of Aurora is accused of trying to go overseas to fight for jihad. The U.S. District Attorney's office says Muhtorov was arrested on Saturday at Chicago's O'Hare Airport by Denver FBI agents and Chicago Joint Terrorism ...

The old expression says you can’t go home again. Amid the start to the season’s stretch run for Naperville Central, Tuesday night’s tilt against West Aurora marked its first home game in almost two months while also providing an opportunity to gain ...

Dist. 129 elementary students enthusiastically demonstrate their dance number at the recent Community Festival of the Arts at West Aurora High School. During the festival, students from each school in the district demonstrated their successes in the fine arts.

Six years ago, Marilyn Bethell, a counseling aide who loved birds, Jimmy Buffett music and roller coasters, was taken to a spot near the Illinois Prairie Path and shot once in the back of the head. Investigators eventually charged Garang Deng ...

Aurora Christian is headed back to its third state semifinal football game in the last five years after the top-seeded Eagles dominated Winnebago Saturday night in a 48-13 victory. Western Michigan-bound Aurora Christian quarterback Anthony ...

SOLON: Tallmadge coach Joe Vassalotti knew that if his team fell behind Aurora early, the postseason would probably end. They did and it did. Aurora’s strength, size and powerful running game, along with a big night from versatile Anthony Melchiori, led ...

AURORA, Colo. -- On a quiet Aurora street, a man who ran upon some hard times, decided to put a room up for rent to help with his mortgage payments. Jimmy Mathiowdis found a woman, Jeannette Candy Mitchell to rent his empty room, she signed a ...

In a sense, last year was a learning experience for Aurora University women’s basketball coach Jabari Harrell. An outstanding point guard during his playing days at both Aurora Christian and AU, Harrell had never coached women’s basketball before ...

An Aurora registered sex offender twice convicted of groping women on airplanes has been charged with making unwanted sexual contact with yet another sleeping passenger on a flight from Las Vegas to Chicago. Srinivasa S. Erramilli, 44, faces up ...

Firefox 9 Aurora was updated to Firefox 10 Aurora a few minutes ago. The update dialog listed several incompatible add-ons which I ignored at that time as I’m using the Mozilla Add-On Compatibility Reporter to make add-ons compatible. When I ...

"The success and complexity of Aurora IT's customer sites, their medical and technological expertise, their outstanding customer service and their leadership in total sales drove them to the top of our hundreds of partners worldwide," praised ...

An Aurora man was behind the wheel of a Subaru Outback that crossed a double yellow line and collided head-on with another vehicle in Weld County last night, killing himself and the other driver. German Hernandez-Costillo tried to pass a white ...

NORTH AURORA — At the North Aurora Veterans Memorial Friday afternoon, children and adults waved their miniature American flags, a contingent of Fox Valley Marines marched, a rifle salute was fired and a trumpet player blew out the notes for Taps ...