Susan Sarkauskas
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Downers Grove gymnastics coach faces child porn, sexual abuse chargesJun 08, 2022 1:00 am - This article has been updated to include a statement from the gymnastics business where Wyatt Kopka worked, and more information about the charges he faces. An inst...
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Batavia officials raise rainbow flag, hear about LGBTQ+ needs, eventsJun 07, 2022 1:00 am - For the second year in a row, the city of Batavia is flying a rainbow flag to mark Pride Month. But this time, it did so with a public ceremony - and presentations at th...
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Aurora Pride parade doesn't have enough police security lined up, police department saysJun 07, 2022 1:00 am - The Aurora Police Department says that it cannot provide enough police officers to ensure the safety of the Aurora Pride parade scheduled for Sunday. In a news release s...
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'They can know they were respected': Unclaimed remains given dignified final resting placesJun 06, 2022 5:30 am - It's not like somebody didn't care about what to do with 85-year-old Everet Lloyd Knabb when he died in 2000. His ashes are in a metal urn, inscribed with his birth year...
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New trial begins for Geneva man accused of murdering wife, putting body on train tracksJun 06, 2022 1:00 am - Was Kathleen King really dead when she was found lying on a railroad track in Geneva? Was she still breathing? Or were Geneva police and paramedics wrong when they decid...
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Lisle man pleads guilty to drug-induced homicideJun 06, 2022 1:00 am - A Lisle man pleaded guilty Monday to killing a Darien man by providing him the fentanyl-laced heroin on which the man overdosed. Adam Roser, 38, of the 5100 block of Lin...
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How Lake County plans to deploy 'interrupters' to fight surge in gun violenceJun 03, 2022 5:30 am - When a gunman approached two men outside a Waukegan restaurant Sunday and shot both in the head, killing one and gravely injuring the other in apparent retaliation for a...
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Man pleads guilty, again, and gets 20 years for 2008 shooting of woman in ElginJun 03, 2022 1:00 am - A West Chicago man who pleaded guilty to aggravated battery in 2010 for shooting a woman, then withdrew his plea, has pleaded guilty, again, to the attack and was senten...
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Nobody hurt in ammonia leak at Aurora water plantJun 03, 2022 1:00 am - Nobody was injured when a tank filled with ammonia began leaking Friday morning outside the Aurora Water Treatment Plant. Firefighters responded at 9:17 a.m. to the plan...
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Aurora teen pleads guilty to shooting manJun 02, 2022 1:00 am - An Aurora teenager pleaded guilty Thursday morning to aggravated battery with a firearm for shooting a man in a gang-related incident. Christian O. Capuchino, 17, accept...