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Two Aurora teens are accused of leading Villa Park police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car, officials said.

A court in Sweden has allowed a group of environmental activists, including Greta Thunberg, to file a lawsuit against the Swedish state for what they say is insufficient action on the climate

Investigators say Craig drove his wife to a hospital because she was complaining of "severe headaches and dizziness."

A man was found inside the bar with apparent stab wounds and was taken to a local hospital where he is in stable condition, police said.

Aurora police are investigating a stabbing Friday evening at a business in the city’s downtown area.

Aria Lamen was honored Tuesday night for saving her mom’s life after the 9-year-old called 911 after her mother passed out at their home in Aurora

Robert and Loveda Proctor of Aurora, Nebraska went missing in the middle of January. Authorities said on Saturday their bodies have been found, and foul play is not suspected.

The U.S. Air Force showed off two new images of the newly developed B-21 Raider bomber, manufactured by Northrop Gumman, and featuring the latest technologies.

The remains have been identified as those of Marie R. O’Brien of Aurora. The cause of her death remains undetermined.

As loved ones still mourn the loss of those killed in the tragic shooting on Feb. 15, 2019, countless communities have come to learn what it’s like to lose loved ones to gun violence.

Aurora police released footage from officers’ body cameras of the officer-involved shooting earlier this month involving a resident accused of charging at police armed with knives.

As law enforcement officials continue to investigate an officer-involved shooting Sunday morning in Aurora, Mayor Richard Irvin urged people to wait for the results of the investigation before making judgments about the incident.

A man remained in critical condition Monday afternoon after being shot by an Aurora police officer after allegedly charging at the officer armed with knives outside a home in the city Sunday morning.

Aurora police officers arrived on the scene around 1 a.m. Tuesday near South Eola Road and Autumn Grove Circle to find a Toyota sedan upside down and partially submerged in a retention pond, Aurora Police Chief Keith Cross said.

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.

If a storm of this magnitude happened now, it would have a drastic impact

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 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.

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.

Police say six teenagers were wounded in a drive-by shooting in a park near a suburban Denver high school, but all are expected to survive.

Colorado’s attorney general says a civil rights investigation begun amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that the Aurora 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.

An abrupt relaxation of mask policies at some retail and grocery stores has left workers reeling as they try to sort out what the new environment means for their own safety and relationship with customers.

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.

Three white police officers confronted him, with police body-camera video showing one approaching McClain and telling him: Stop right there. In the video, McClain tells officers: Let go of me. Aurora police have said McClain refused to stop walking and fought back when officers tried to take him into custody. The officers used a chokehold that cuts off blood to the brain a tactic recently banned in several places following Floyds death. A local district attorney decided last year not to charge the Aurora officers, citing a pathologists determination that it was inconclusive exactly how McClain died.

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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There was heavy security at Wednesday night's New York opening of the controversial new movie "Joker." All New York theaters showing the movie will reportedly have a police presence. In the movie, Joaquin Phoenix plays a downtrodden loner who adopts the Joker persona to inflict extreme violence. Some critics fear the movie may prompt violence after the 2012 shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where The Dark Knight Rises was being shown. Reviews were mostly positive and at last months Venice Film Festival, the film received a seven-minute standing ovation.

(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.

Titled "Joker," Phoenix stars as failed comedian Arthur Fleck, who ultimately becomes the comic book villain. Several victims of the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, are expressing their concerns in particular. The film feels like a "slap in the face," Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was killed in Aurora, told The Hollywood Reporter. "I don't think it's the responsibility of a filmmaker to teach the audience morality or the difference between right or wrong," Phoenix told IGN. Relatives of those killed in the Aurora shooting are asking Warner Brothers, the studio behind the film, to donate to anti-gun violence causes.

A group of five toddler girls born within a two-week span of one another get together each year for an epic photo shoot. The girls Aurora, Olive, Haven, Lyla and Aubrey are all 3 years old and their moms all know each other and happened to give birth around the same time. Photographer and mom Alex Bolen, 26, shot the groups photographs every three months for the first year of their lives. I would like to introduce you to the cutest group of gal pals ever. The little girls get along as well and two of them, Olive and Haven, are best friends born on the same day.

Beth Chapman was remembered for her strong personality and kindness at a memorial service in her hometown of Aurora, Colorado, on Saturday. Chapman, who starred in popular reality series "Dog the Bounty Hunter" with her husband Duane "Dog" Chapman, was 51 when she died on June 26 in a Honolulu hospital. "She was our lion tamer of the Chapman family," he said. The couple rose to fame as the stars of their 2004-1012 hit reality show, which followed the adventures of their family-owned bounty-hunting business. The Chapman family held a public memorial at Fort DeRussy Beach in Waikiki, Hawaii, on June 29.

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