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Verdict looms in trial of two officers over Elijah McClain’s death

Aurora Police officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt are charged over 2019 death of Elijah McClain

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Aurora man charged in connection with Willowbrook Juneteenth celebration shooting that killed 1, injured 22

Anthony Mothershed, 19, was charged in DuPage County on Friday with aggravated discharge of a firearm and one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

Chicago Sun-Times

These 3 Rare Pre-War Motorcycles Are About To Go Up For Grabs

Two early British and one early American bike are about to find new homes at the 2023 Hershey auction in Pennsylvania in October 2023. All are extremely rare.

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West Chicago’s Latino residents say they don’t want trash from Naperville, Wheaton and other white communities

Garbage brawl is called ‘textbook’ environmental racism.

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The music and animal-loving Black 23-year-old killed by police and paramedics: What happened to Elijah McClain

Described by one friend as ‘the sweetest, purest person I have ever met’, Elijah McClain lost his life after encountering three police officers and two paramedics while walking home. Kelly Rissman reports

The Independent UK

Trial begins in Elijah McClain death, which sparked outrage over racial injustice in policing

Four years after Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in Colorado, two of the police officers charged in his death are set to go on trial

The Independent UK

Libraries in Chicago, suburbs receive bomb threats

Libraries in Chicago, Aurora, Addison and Evanston are targeted by threats. The incidents were investigated and deemed unfounded. No one was hurt.

Chicago Sun-Times

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No charges filed in shooting death of 14-year-old who told police: ‘Stop please, you got me’

Jor’Dell, 14, was shot and killed on 1 June in Aurora, Colorado following a convenience store robbery when responding officers believed he was armed with a 9mm pistol

The Independent UK

Chicago-area Christkindlmarkets to open Nov. 17 with new ‘fast-entry’ ticketing available

The beloved holiday shopping markets will return to Daley Plaza, Gallagher Way and to Aurora’s RiverEdge Park.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mexican cartel crew leader from Aurora tried but couldn’t get out. Now, Pablo Vega Cuevas is hoping for leniency for helping feds.

He’s seeking a reduced sentence of 15 years for his role in Guerreros Unidos. In 2014, he asked the drug cartel to let him leave, but his bosses told him to keep unloading heroin hidden on buses, prosecutors say.

Chicago Sun-Times

They were 2 Chicago pizza delivery guys. Then, they ran a Mexican drug cartel, feds say

The Guerreros Unidos cartel that authorities say brothers Adan and Mario Casarrubias Salgado led fed Chicago’s appetite for heroin and is blamed for the massacre of 43 students in Mexico.

Chicago Sun-Times

Another harrowing escape puts attention on open prostitution market along Seattle's Aurora Avenue

The kidnapping of a woman who authorities say escaped her abductor by punching her way out of a cinder block cell in Oregon has focused attention on the area where authorities say she was taken: Aurora Avenue in Seattle, an urban stretch of state highway lined with box stores and…

The Independent UK

Immigrants at Colo. detention center face excessive solitary confinement, advocacy groups allege

DENVER -- Immigration advocacy groups allege abuse of solitary confinement and discrimination against people with disabilities at the Aurora, Colorado, immigration detention center in a complaint submitted Thursday to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s oversight entities.

The Denver Post

A 'double punch' of solar storms could smash into Earth and spark widespread auroras this week

As the U.S. celebrated July 4, the sun hosted its own fireworks display in the form of a coronal mass ejection "double punch" that NASA predicts could strike Earth on Friday (July 7).

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Field of Bears suitors grows to five: Aurora joins rush to lure team with new stadium

With the team’s Arlington Heights proposal in flux, an Aurora spokesman said Bears representatives “responded quickly and positively” to their entreaty, which follows others from Naperville and Waukegan.

Ballotpedia

Five recent mayoral elections in America’s largest cities have been decided by fewer than 1,000 votes

As Ballotpedia prepares for August’s mayoral elections, we wanted to pause and take a look at some trends we’ve noticed across the top 100 largest cities by population. Analyzing each city’s most recent mayoral election results, ranging from 2019 to 2023, we found that the top five competitive general elections…

The Denver Post

Police in Colorado release additional footage related to fatal shooting of Jor’Dell Richardson

DENVER — Aurora police on Monday released five additional videos of the events leading up to the shooting of 14-year-old Jor’Dell Richardson earlier this month.

TechRadar

Intel's most powerful supercomputer is ready to be switched on

Over 60,000 GPUs and 20,000 CPUs give Aurora a massive two exaflops of supercomputing power.

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Ex-Proud Boy from Aurora gets more than three years in prison for Jan. 6 Capitol assault

James Robert Elliott claims he was “filled with frustration, at the government, at Trump, at law-enforcement and also at myself” in the days after the riot.

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2 ExaFLOPS Aurora Supercomputer Is Ready: Intel Max Series CPUs and GPUs Inside

Argonne National Laboratory completes installation of Aurora supercomputer blades: 63,744 Data Center GPU Max and 21,248 Xeon CPU Max inside.

Chicago Sun-Times

Freelancers, a new Illinois law says you have the right to be paid on time

A recently passed bill, similar to a New York City law, would provide pay protections for freelance workers. An Aurora-based freelancer urges Gov. J.B. Pritzker to sign it and make Illinois the first state to extend such protections on a broad scale.

Chicago Sun-Times

Suspect on the lam for days killed in shootout with police in Geneva

Police say a man who was sought by various suburban agencies this week stole a car in Aurora and fled. Later, he engaged in a shootout in Geneva and was killed.

Chicago Sun-Times

High school basketball notebook: Jeremiah Fears leaves, new coaches at West Aurora, Lockport, Stevenson

Jeremiah Fears has joined what is becoming a lengthy list of high-level basketball prospects from Illinois who have left the state.

Chicago Sun-Times

Aurora man bragged Proud Boys promoted him after U.S. Capitol attack: prosecutors

Prosecutors want James Robert Elliott, 25, to serve nearly three-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the Capitol riot, where he “seemed to view himself as the star of a war movie” and repeatedly uttered a cry from the movie “300.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Aurora man charged with threatening to kill Gov. J.B. Pritzker

Steven Woletz, 46, allegedly called the governor’s constituent service office April 15 and left a threatening message, authorities say. He is free on $10,000 bail.

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