High school and local college results and highlights from the area.
Baseball and local scores for the Southland, Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County
Category: Aurora Beacon-News
Warrant names suspect in slaying of Chicago police officer
A Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant for an Aurora man in connection with the killing of Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca, according to court records. Xavier Tate Jr. was named in a first-degree murder warrant that ordered authorities to detain him, according to documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court Friday. A felony complaint accuses him of firing a .40 caliber handgun at Huesca, killing him. Huesca, 30 and a six-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, was in Gage Park when he was shot multiple times on the 3100 block of West 56th Street while off-duty but […]
With new partnership, Rush Copley in Aurora aims to become ‘destination cancer program in the western suburbs’
New partnership announced between the Rush University System for Health and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Aurora adopts new fine designed to cut down on drivers fleeing police
The ordinance allows the Aurora Police Department to charge the registered owner of a vehicle with fleeing and eluding a police officer in cases where police are unable to stop the driver of a vehicle.
Column: Stories, and the faces behind them, matter in battle against opioid abuse
The Kane County Health Department’s newly-launched “Your Story Matters” campaign encourages people impacted by opioids to share their experiences as a way of providing education and resources but also to help destigmatize drug abuse.
Rick Armstrong’s Aurora-Elgin area softball rankings and player of the week
With a logjam at the top, West Aurora and Bartlett enter area rankings.
West Aurora’s Keira Hayton wasn’t slaphappy. She had a concussion. But a year later? ‘She flies under the radar.’
In her third varsity season, Keira Hayton has been dominant this spring for the Blackhawks.
Paul Johnson’s Aurora-Elgin area baseball rankings and player of the week
Geneva, St. Charles East, Burlington Central and Bartlett on upswing in area rankings.
Kane County further delays sales tax referendum decision
A potential Kane County sales tax referendum hit another roadblock at the Wednesday meeting of the Kane County Finance Committee, where committee members decided not to vote on the issue and instead passed it off to a subcommittee.
Developer looks to build gas station on northeast side of Aurora
The development would include a gas station and a restaurant with about 25 seats and a drive-thru window.