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Darrell Frazier, 20, of the 1770 block of Burnham Avenue, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular hijacking, a class X felony, and agreed to the sentence, according to a news release from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Aurora Pride, which organizes the annual Pride Parade in the city, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the city ordinance that they said led to the event’s permit being revoked last summer before the parade was eventually held.

A year after Jett's law banned school dress codes from policing kids' hairstyles, the CROWN Act now takes the policy to other institutions.

A police officer in suburban Denver is facing a felony charge after allegedly punching a disabled woman who was walking her dog outside his apartment complex while he was off-duty. Aurora officer Douglas Harroun, 32, was charged with third-degree assault against an at-risk adult following Wednesday's encounter, Sentinel Colorado reported. According to an arrest affidavit, Harroun and his wife were driving up to the apartment complex as the disabled woman was walking her unleashed dog in the middle of the road, forcing Harroun to drive slowly behind her as he approached the parking garage.

Jude Kofie had never received a piano lesson, but had a gift for playing.

A new program launched by the Aurora Police Department will send a bilingual message to people asking their views of the police department and how their interaction with officers went.

In a little over four years, new heavy truck makers will have to cut harmful nitrogen oxide pollution more than 80% under standards released Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Aurora police officers were justified in pursuing two suspects believed to be involved in an Arlington Heights stabbing in June in the moments before a fatal car crash, officials with the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said Friday.

Hundreds of activists have marched through the Swedish capital to a court to file a lawsuit against the Swedish state for what they say is insufficient climate action

Jose Arellano of Aurora is still wanted on a warrant and his location is unknown.

A vent deep under the Arctic ice is surprisingly similar to what may occur on Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus.

Chicago-area homeowners can expect to pay hundreds more on their heating bills this winter, due to rising natural gas prices and ratepayer-funded pipeline maintenance.

From divorces to love interests, Olivia Culpo and her sisters Sophia & Aurora dish on what fans can expect from their new reality TV show "The Culpo Sisters" on TLC. Watch!

A man from Harvey has been sentenced to 35 years in prison in connection with a carjacking and shooting that left an Aurora woman permanently paralyzed in 2021.

A 21-year-old man is on the run after allegedly shooting and killing four people around 2:00 a.m. on Sunday morning at a home in Aurora, Colorado, police say.

A data breach at Advocate Aurora Health may have exposed the information of as many as 3 million patients

Authorities located a missing Texas teenager in Nebraska. The teen, identified as Tyler Roenz, had crashed his car and was taken to the hospital. A body was found in the trunk.

Hollywood Casino Aurora has announced its intention to leave downtown and move to a site near the Interstate 88 interchange with Farnsworth Avenue in the city.

Police reported that a "suspicious individual" unsuccessfully attempted to gain access to several school building in Aurora, Plainfield and Oswego.

A Black man died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019 because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained.

Three people sustained non-life-threatening injuries after their light rail train skipped tracks and derailed in Aurora, Colorado. They were taken to a local hospital.

A trail of SpaceX Starlink satellites are visible in front of a haunting green aurora, as witnessed by AuroraWatchers.com in a video shot near Fairbanks on Sept. 2.

Fed up with sky-high housing prices, Coloradans are taking the issue into their own hands with a November ballot initiative that would direct a portion of the state's income taxes to affordable housing projects. As housing crises bubble up nationwide, Colorado's Proposition 123 is the first statewide housing initiative in the country to make the ballot for the 2022 election, according to a database of ballot measures maintained by the National Conference of State Legislatures. “We’ve reached a tipping point and we cannot continue to wait on the sidelines and hope that something happens,” Jackie Millet, mayor of the Denver suburb of Lone Tree, told a campaign kickoff event Tuesday in Aurora.

The investment by a Berkshire Hathaway company in an autonomous vehicle startup moves unmanned truck cabs closer to the highway.

A referee shortage may force some schools to spread referees throughout the week, instead of the usual weekend games.

A 17-year-old girl and a 53-year-old man, both from Aurora, suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening. The 19-year-old man driving a BMW died at the scene of the crash, which was the result of unsafe speeding, officials said.

An Aurora man has been charged with attempted murder after he is accused of directing his car at a Kane County sheriff’s deputy while fleeing other officers in a high-speed vehicle pursuit, officials said.

A Warrenville man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of his Aurora brother, officials said.

Armed robbery reported Tuesday night outside Naperville fitness center

Aurora police say a man was fatally shot early Monday during a family dispute at a home on the city’s West Side.

Rising mortgage rates have combined with already high home prices to discourage would-be buyers.

A man has been charged with first-degree murder after his mother was found dead in an apartment on the East Side of Aurora Friday morning, police said.

Three years after a mass shooting at an Aurora warehouse spurred a major attempt to reform the gun-permitting process in Illinois, the Highland Park parade massacre showed more flaws in the system.

The shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade Monday put the North Shore town in chilling company with other communities across Chicago and the suburbs where neighbors, coworkers, students and residents have faced terror and tragedy when gunmen opened fire.

Aurora is mourning the passing of Suzanne Deuchler, a state representative from Aurora for 18 years in the 1980s and ‘90s who died last week at the age of 92.

Built in the 1950s to carry tourists on day trips from the German port of Hamburg, one of the last surviving cruise ships of that era looked bound for the scrap heap, until Chris Willson found the rotting vessel for sale on Craigslist.

A Yorkville man has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of an Aurora woman who went missing 19 years ago and whose remains were discovered in Kane County in late 2020.

Aurora’s retired police chief Kristen Ziman is one of nine people selected to review law enforcement’s response to the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, recently that killed 21 people.

The city of Aurora has revoked the special event permit for the Aurora Pride group to hold the Aurora Pride Parade Sunday.

The Aurora Pride Parade on Sunday may be in jeopardy after Aurora police warned that organizers do not have enough officers to provide security at the event.

Good morning, Chicago. Primary Day in Illinois is a little more than three weeks away and early voting is underway.

News of tragedy after tragedy can give Americans a sense of learned helplessness about gun violence.

The latest contribution to Irvin came after Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker launched an attack ad last week geared at Griffin and Irvin.

The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18 when authorities say they bought the weapons used in the attacks.

The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18 when authorities say they bought the weapons used in the attacks.

The 293-foot cruise ship had three decks, 85 cabins with en-suite bathrooms, a swimming pool, and a lot of issues when Chris Willson bought it.

State Sen. Darren Bailey called Chicago “a crime-ridden, corrupt, dysfunctional hellhole” when asked about crime and gun violence in the city.

GOP candidates for governor are state Sen. Darren Bailey, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, paving magnate Gary Rabine, former state Sen. Paul Schimpf, attorney Max Solomon and cryptocurrency venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan.

Man was the student’s teacher at Bardwell Elementary School in Aurora.

GOP candidate tries to reconcile his positions from pandemic mandates and Black Lives Matter to gun control and his opinions Pritzker.

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said charges against girlfriend would be ‘taken care of’ at scene of her arrest last year, police report shows.

Billionaire Ken Griffin has upped his investment in Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin’s Republican bid for governor, kicking in an additional $25 million to the campaign.

Holding a sign that reads "I regret My Abortion", Nancy Kreuzer, left, along with other protesters, stand outside of Stericycle along North Eola Road on May 22, 2019, in Aurora. Kreuzer said that more than 25 years ago she an abortion after getting a diagnosis of hydrocephalus and Down syndrome. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

The dog is now back at his Aurora home recovering from his injuries, officials said.

Nathan Bramstedt, 42, of Oswego, is accused of sexually assaulting the student, who was 17 years old at the time, on multiple occasions and at multiple locations at Metea Valley High School from February 2019 to June 2019.

Colorado authorities say a man wanted for shooting and killing a woman last week in a suburban Denver church and wounding two churchgoers has died after he was shot by police officers.

A woman is facing murder and arson charges after a fire swept through a three-story apartment building in suburban Denver, killing a 5-year-old boy and displacing more than 30 people.

DNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio River in Indiana is from an Ohio woman who vanished with her two young children in 2002.

The Denver suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him on the street and put him in a neckhold two years ago.

Colorado’s attorney general says a civil rights investigation that began amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that a suburban Denver police department has a pattern of racially biased policing.

Police reform advocates say the indictments of three suburban Denver officers and two paramedics in the death of Elijah McClain could be a pivotal step toward meaningful accountability for law enforcement.

Three suburban Denver officers and two paramedics have been indicted on manslaughter and other charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.

A former Nevada prison inmate has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 1984 hammer and knife slayings of three Colorado family members, including a 7-year-old girl.

A video showing a police officer pistol-whipping and choking a Black man during an arrest in a Denver suburb has reignited anger over policing in the community.

New video shows a Colorado police officer using his pistol to beat a man he was trying to arrest, choking him and threatening to kill him.

The pandemic can’t stop Ziggy Marley from celebrating the Earth.

Major League Baseball plans to relocate the All-Star Game to Coors Field in Denver after pulling this year’s Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to sweeping changes to Georgia’s voting laws, according to a person familiar with the decision.

On Wednesday, Reinfeld was reeling from the latest mass shooting even closer to home, after authorities say a 21-year-old gunned down shoppers at a local grocery store. “I could see at some point leaving because of all this,” said Reinfeld, a gun control activist. But it's also been haunted by shootings that have helped define the nation's decades-long struggle with mass violence. The Aurora shooting brought that terror from schools to a movie theater. After each of Colorado's biggest massacres, the local gun control movement has gained heartbroken new recruits.

The Aurora Civil Service Commission issued a decision Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, upholding the firings of officers Marrero, Dittrich and Jason Rosenblatt over this and similar photos. Police Chief Vanessa Wilson fired the three officers last year over two photos taken at a memorial to McClain two months after his death. AdDittrich texted the photos to two officers who stopped McClain — Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard — to try to cheer up Woodyard, authorities said. Besides the neckhold, McClain was injected with the sedative ketamine. Rosenblatt initially tried to put McClain in the neckhold but couldn’t because of his position, so Woodyard did, authorities said.

SAN RAMON, Calif. – Uber is selling off its autonomous vehicles development arm as the ride-hailing company slims down after its revenues were pummeled by the coronavirus pandemic. Self-driving vehicle technology company Aurora will acquire the employees and technology behind Uber's Advanced Technologies Group in an stock transaction, the companies said Monday. Uber will also invest $400 million into Aurora, and Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will join Aurora's board of directors. After the transaction, Aurora will be worth $10 billion and Uber will hold 26% stake in the company, Aurora CEO Chris Urmson said in an interview. San Francisco-based Uber will lose a critical piece of its company after the pandemic cut into its finances by suppressing demand for shared rides.

McClain, a 23-year-old Black man in the Denver suburb of Aurora, died in August after police officers confronted him as he was walking to a store. McClain was a massage therapist who planned to go to college, his younger sister, Samara McClain, told The Denver Post. According to a report by District Attorney Dave Young, Aurora officers responding to the report said McClain was uncooperative when they confronted him. Federal authorities also said they were considering an investigation into photos of Aurora police released last week. WHAT IS THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE PHOTOS TAKEN AT MCCLAIN'S MEMORIAL?

Wilson said in a statement that the suspended officers were "depicted in photographs near the site where Elijah McClain died." Aurora Interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said the officers were responding to a small group of agitators among the largely peaceful crowd Saturday. Three white officers stopped McClain as he walked down the street last August after a 911 call reported him as suspicious. The officers who stopped McClain were cleared by prosecutors and returned to the force, but the governor has ordered the state attorney general to reopen the case. A separate internal police investigation is underway into photos of Aurora officers taken near where McClain died.

The interim police chief of the city of Aurora, Vanessa Wilson, said in a statement that the suspended officers were "depicted in photographs near the site where Elijah McClain died." In McClain's case, police body-camera video shows an Aurora officer getting out of his car, approaching McClain and saying, Stop right there. The chief's decision could be appealed by the officers under investigation, which would delay the results being released, he said. The three officers who stopped McClain did not face any criminal charges after an investigation by the district attorney, but Democratic Gov. Who didn't do it the right way were those agitators who were arming themselves, that were putting on helmets and gas masks and throwing rocks at my officers, Wilson told KUSA-TV.

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(CNN) - Aurora, a falcon that served the Air Force Academy as mascot for 23 years, has died, the school announced Wednesday in a statement posted on Facebook and Twitter. The bird was a fixture at Air Force Academy sporting events as well as military and community events. Aurora was the school's longest-serving live mascotThe Air Force Academy's first class, which began courses in 1955, chose the falcon as a mascot, as they felt the species channeled the Air Force's fighting spirit. Other mascots to serve the school were named named Atholl and Baffin. A successor, Glacier, served the school from 1980 to 1995, becoming the longest-serving mascot up to that point.

2012: Gunman James Eagan Holmes opens fire in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater during a midnight showing of the Batman sequel "The Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 and wounding 70 others. Holmes was arrested outside the theater minutes later. In the summer of 2015, Holmes was convicted on 24 counts of murder and 140 counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole. Hide Caption