Officer Douglas Rashkow’s presentation “Crisis Intervention Training” will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, 300 Randall Road, Geneva, Building 351 in conference room 1, 2, 3. Topics will include: Crisis intervention skills; De-escalating a crisis; Tips to resolving conflict; mental health
The Naperville Police Department made 37 traffic stops and issued 36 citations during the recent Super Bowl crackdown. The Super Bowl weekend Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over and Click It or Ticket enforcement effort ran Friday, Feb. 1, through the early morning hours of Monday, Feb. 4, to keep
“This is jackboots in the morning. This is an American nightmare that they would arrest somebody like this.” —Judge Andrew Napolitano For too long now, the American people have allowed their personal prejudices, and politics to cloud their judgment and render them incapable of seeing that the treatment being doled
Kiwanis Club of Aurora member Amy Roth, left, hands a Kiwanis coffee mug to Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman at the Kiwanis Club meeting Tuesday at the Prisco Center in Aurora. Chief Ziman shared this year’s Police Department initiatives. Aurora has the second largest municipal police department with a budget
The City of Aurora’s African-American Heritage Advisory Board (AAHAB) will host its 15th Annual Heritage Dinner on Friday, February 22, 2019 at Gaslite Manor, 2485 Church Road. Social hour begins at 6 p.m. and dinner begins at 7 p.m. The crowning event of Black History Month, this annual celebration
The Aurora Police Department honors from Police Chief Kristen L. Ziman, left, Wednesday, Jan. 16 at Aurora Police Headquarters include, from left, to Officer Rsyzard Drozdowski, Officer Bradley R. Vonhoff, Investigator Colin J. Griffin, and Investigator Matthew A. Huber. Two of the Officers, Ryszard (“Rick”) Drozdowski and Bradley Vonhoff, were
Aurora Police Chief Kristen L. Ziman administers the Oath of Office to Aurora Police recruits Wednesday, Jan. 16. A video of the event can be seen by clicking here. Jason Crane/The Voice
Aurora Police have secured numerous charges through the Kane County State’s Attorney on a 25-year-old Aurora woman who was seen on video dragging a five-year-old boy by the hair inside an Aurora hospital’s emergency room waiting area on Monday, Jan. 14. Tanye M. McNeal of the 1200 block of Second
Aurora aldermen heard a one-year update Tuesday during their regular Committee of the Whole meeting at City Hall about the success of the outside law firm hired to handle prosecution of drunken driving cases. City Council members approved a contract with the Wheaton law offices of Kimberly M. DiGiovanni in
The Aurora Navy League Council 247 will hold its monthly dinner meeting Tuesday, Jan. 15. The meeting will be held in the private dining room at Grandma’s Table Restaurant, 1700 Douglas Road, Montgomery, just north of U.S. Route 30. The after dinner speaker will be Joe Rosner, a recognized expert
Mark Brent, right, son of the late Bob Brent, accepts his father’s East Aurora High School Distinguished Alumni Award from Blanca Souders, East Aurora Alumni Association, Friday, at the honor at East Aurora. Bob Brent was the police chief in Aurora for 12 years, starting in 1979. He joined the
A bomb threat was sent to Aurora City Hall and other buildings in Aurora during a visit by congresswoman-elect Lauren Underwood, 14th Congressional District of Illinois, Thursday, Dec. 13. Aurora Police Department personnel are investigating and think it was a part of a nationwide series of bomb threat which appeared to
Aurora Police secured numerous felonies through the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office on a 45-year-old Aurora man after executing a search warrant November 29. Samuel U. Jones of the 100 block of N. Farnsworth Avenue stands charged with two counts each of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver
Tyler Reeder shows the biggest trophy in the Aurora Police Department “No Shave November” Contest to raise money for pancreatic cancer. He stands between Kristen Ziman, police chief and Santa. Click here to see the video. No Shave November, hair-raising, fundraising: Aurora police members honor winners of their third “No
The Kane County State’s attorney completes review of October 22, 2018, officer-involved shooting in Aurora: An officer-involved shooting occurred just before 6 p..m. October 22, 2018 near East Indian Trail and North Farnsworth Avenue in Aurora, in which Giovanni A. Padilla of Aurora was shot and wounded. Padilla suffered a gunshot wound to
Kane County’s 16th Judicial Circuit Court Judge René Cruz, left, provides swearing in ceremony to recently-elected Sheriff Ron Hain in St. Charles Monday. Theresa Tooley Barreiro photo
DuPage County’s 18th Judicial Circuit Court Chief Judge, Daniel Guerin, provides swearing in ceremony to recently-elected Sheriff James Mendrick in Wheaton Monday. DuPage County Sheriff’s office photo
Aurora Police Department representatives have secured felony charges through the Kane County State’s Attorney’s office on a 60-year-old Aurora man in connection with two burglaries at separate downtown restaurants Wednesday, Nov. 14. Jerry R. Miller Jr., of the 200 block of E. Galena Boulevard, is being held on two counts
The Aurora Police Department, in partnership with the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), seized a large amount of weapons, drugs, cash, and jewelry while conducting a parole compliance check in Aurora Wednesday, Nov. 7. Thirteen felony charges were authorized by the Kane County State’s Attorney’s office against Terrell Alvarez, 23, of the
North Aurora Police Chief David Fisher, center, honors three North Aurora Police officers and an Illinois State Police master sergeant at the North Aurora Village Board meeting Monday. The group was honored for their efforts of working together to pull Ed Poe out of the Fox River after he suffered
