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The good news is, the red-light cameras are working. Of course, that's the bad news, too. Statistics released from both the city's police department and finance department over the past two weeks indicate the cameras are getting people to stop. However, that means the city will be collecting a lot less revenue than expected.

A DuPage County jury has sentenced three-time convicted murderer Edward Tenney, 50, to death for the 1992 shooting death of a 24-year-old Aurora man in a robbery that netted $6.

A 24-year-old Naperville man found himself charged with disorderly conduct after trying to enter the house where he used to live and, in the process, badly frightening the family living there now.

When the city of Naperville says the word "green," it's meant literally. Two inspectors in a green van pulled up to Naperville resident Hank Verbooman's drive one day in December, unloaded their gadgets, and got to work investigating Verbooman's house. They tested for air leaks, searched for energy-burning incandescent light bulbs, and most importantly to Verbooman, verified that his furnace was ready for an upgrade.

A man accused by police of "making a career" out of bilking businesses with phony checks and counterfeit merchandise bar codes over the past several years faces deportation. Darius Teresius, 29, of Glen Ellyn, had 14 warrants out for his arrest when he was taken into custody recently by Naperville police.

The Illinois Department of Transportation is seeking comment from the public about traffic congestion at the railroad crossing on Ogden Avenue (Route 34) on Aurora's far East Side.

Rewards were posted Tuesday for information about two unrelated home burglaries on Naperville's near west and southwest sides.

A Wheaton couple has filed a lawsuit in DuPage County Circuit Court saying that their son became ill with shigella poisoning after eating at the Subway restaurant at 1009 E. Roosevelt Road in Lombard.

Edward Hospital is among the first hospitals in the country to make emergency room wait times available via text message, online and by phone.

With autism more prevalent on the public radar than ever before, it would seem reasonable to suppose there is greater understanding of the disability than in the past. That may be true, but advocates say there's still plenty of work to be done.

Kings Heath nursing home patients were unshaven with dirty hair and long ...
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In a 6-1 vote Monday night, the Naperville District 203 Board of Education approved a three-year contract with teachers in the 1,350-member Naperville Unit Education Association. Superintendent Mark Mitrovich said the new contract fiscally sound.

The Naperville Exchange Club announced Monday that Jonny Lang, Los Lonely Boys and The Charlie Daniels Band will headline the opening night of Ribfest 2010. The Charlie Daniels Band has been making music for more than 50 years — and recently was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame.

Long-simmering enmity between two Aurora residents sparked a melee that ended with the arrests of seven men in the parking lot of a Naperville strip mall. Nine Naperville police officers were sent to end the brawl that erupted late Saturday afternoon outside the Burlington Coat Factory outlet at 510 S. Route 59, just east of the Westfield Fox Valley shopping center in Aurora.

For the second time in less than three years, a convicted child sex offender is facing prison for allegedly failing to notify authorities of a move from one address to another. Antwon M. Brown, 20, remained Monday night in DuPage County Jail in Wheaton.

If the U.S. Postal Service discontinues Saturday delivery, it won't be the first major change Steve Chapleau has seen in 37 years of working for the Naperville post office. "Automation was the biggest," he said about the processing and packaging of mail by machines that began in the 1990s. "When I started, we had to do the bundling and packaging -- no scanners or bar codes."

Changing demographics around Indian Prairie District 204 means changing the way some of its schools receive and use federal funding.

With 171,782 residents, according to the most recent Census Bureau estimates, Aurora beats out every town save Chicago.

Arturo Garcia, 17, Aurora, at 10:30 p.m. Friday near Lois Ann Lane and Anthony Court, was charged with driving without a license and possession of liquor by a minor.