Susan Sarkauskas
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Unclaimed bicycles may go to Batavia charityJul 23, 2014 5:30 am - Batavia police may turn unclaimed bicycles over to a charity rather than sell them, under a proposal aldermen discussed Tuesday. The Batavia Bicycle Commission has asked...
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Palatine police look for missing ill manJul 23, 2014 1:01 am - Palatine police are looking for a 63-year-old man they consider in danger. Leon Joffe has bipolar disorder and was scheduled to stay at an assisted-living center in Pala...
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4-year-old boy dies in Bensenville house fireJul 23, 2014 1:01 am - A 4-year-old boy hiding behind a dresser didn't escape a house fire and died Wednesday afternoon in Bensenville despite the efforts of his mother, a neighbor, passers-by...
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Lombard missing woman found safeJul 23, 2014 1:01 am - A woman with autism who left a therapeutic day school in Lombard has been found safe. Police were looking for Nora Wallar, who walked away from the School of Expressive ...
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Truck crossed center line in fatal Pingree Grove crash, cops sayJul 23, 2014 1:01 am - Pingree Grove police say that it was the driver of a pickup truck who caused the July 17 crash in which he was killed. Ian Halasik, 20, of Pingree Grove, was driving a F...
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Lake in the Hills standoff ends peacefullyJul 23, 2014 1:00 am - A suicidal man is in custody after barricading himself in a house in the 100 block of Deerpath Road in Lake in the Hills on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. A teenag...
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Batavia dog rescuers help counterparts in TennesseeJul 21, 2014 5:00 am - Traveling hundreds of miles to rescue dogs from death isn't anything new for volunteers with Batavia-based Casey's Safe Haven Horse and Dog Rescue. They routinely drive ...
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Proposed Geneva schools budget calls for deficit on purposeJul 21, 2014 1:01 am - Officials to spend $4.8 million more
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Batavia gets a step closer to repealing video gambling banJul 16, 2014 5:15 am - Video gambling may soon be allowed in Batavia. Batavia aldermen, in an 8-2 vote at Tuesday's joint committee meeting, said they favored repealing a 2009 ban on video gam...
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Geneva council hears pitch for apartments at Cetron siteJul 15, 2014 5:00 am - The crumbling Cetron factory in downtown Geneva could be replaced by 200 apartments, plus shops and restaurants, under a proposal presented Monday to the Geneva City Cou...