Imagine on the next visit to your local library, you arrive to find the lights turned off and the doors locked. Your first thought is that there must be a power outage, and they had to close for the night. But the sign on the library door says "Lost...

Sales •Wheeling Garden Club Spring Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 15, on the northeast corner of Dundee and Northgate, just east of the tracks. Call Kathy Pico, (847) 541-6783. Features annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables and hanging bas...

'Ask a Lawyer' Free legal advice is available by phone Saturday in Kane County. "Ask a Lawyer Days" is a program sponsored by the Kane County Bar Association. Call (630) 762-1900 from 9 a.m. to noon for a consultation with a volunteer attorn...

Kane County bull; A running stroller was found abandoned Wednesday at a pond near Silver Glen and Randall roads, near St. Charles, police said. bull; A man told police he was attacked by two other men at 4:05 p.m. Tuesday at the intersect...

Rabies vaccination clinic The Kane County Animal Control Department will host a rabies vaccination clinic from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the Kane County Animal Control Facility, 4060 Keslinger Road in Geneva. The facility is at the southwest corner o...

'Visual Tricks' at Messenger: "Visual Tricks-Visual Treats" is a program that explores special effects employing 'trompe l'oeil' paintings of Picasso and many other famous artists from the past. Presented by Art Insights, the free program wil...

It's good to see a success story like Park Place Interiors in Geneva's Dodson Place come out of this rough economy. Owners Russ and Kathleen Newhouse have often talked about how important it is to be part of Geneva's Third Street and the support the...

Granger Web safety class Granger Middle School will host "Cyber Safety: Understanding and Preventing Online Youth Aggression" at 6:30 tonight at Granger Middle School, 2721 Stonebridge Blvd., Aurora. Speakers from the Illinois Center for Viol...

Kane County bull; Bruce A Johnson, 31, of the 700 block of North Prairie Street, Batavia, was arrested at 2:17 p.m. Wednesday and charged with defrauding a drug-alcohol screen, a Class 4 felony, at the Kane County probation office, 37W777 Rou...