• Lions Clubs International marks 100 years with huge convention in Chicago

  By Madhu Krishnamurthy Oak Brook-based Lions Clubs International is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding with a centennial convention June 30 through July 4 at Chicago's McCormick Place.
  Last Updated Jun 26, 2017 6:27 AM

• Fox Valley police reports

  Updated Jun 23, 2017 4:44 PM

  Mark Miller, 18, of Aurora, was charged with misdemeanor retail theft at 7:13 p.m. Thursday at Walmart, 801 N. Randall Road, Batavia police said.

• Kane clerk fees lawsuit could face delay during Cook appeal

  Updated Jun 22, 2017 10:34 AM

  A lawsuit against the Kane County circuit court clerk arguing the office improperly charged people some fees could be put on hold while an appellate court panel considers a similar case in Cook County that was dismissed by a judge.

• Kane County considering ‘Cupcake Law’ to allow home baking businesses

  Updated Jun 21, 2017 7:43 PM

  Kane County health officials are pushing for local adoption of the “Cupcake Law,” allowing for the production and sale of certain baked goods out of non-inspected home kitchens.

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• Police: Man attacked estranged wife on St. Charles street

  Updated Jun 21, 2017 4:23 PM

  A 43-year-old man has been charged with pummeling his estranged wife on a St. Charles street early Tuesday morning, just as was leaving her job.

• Cross-country course development for Settler’s Hill targeted for fall

  Updated Jun 20, 2017 7:27 PM

  Construction on a nearly $4 million cross-country track at the former Settler’s Hill landfill in Geneva may begin as soon as this fall.

• Fox Valley police reports

  Updated Jun 20, 2017 5:22 PM

  Todd E. Neylon, 44, of Batavia, was charged with disorderly conduct, assault and resisting a police officer at 8:57 p.m. Monday after authorities were called to the Shell station, 108 N. Batavia Ave., for an intoxicated subject, according to a police report.

• Wrongful-death suit filed in Aurora retention pond crash that killed mom, 9-year-old son

  Updated Jun 20, 2017 11:40 AM

  A wrongful-death suit has been filed against a management company and a 37-year-old Aurora man seeking damages for a June 2015 crash that killed an Aurora woman and her 9-year-old son after her vehicle plunged into a retention pond.

• Constable: Bail law a good measure you don’t want to use

  Posted Jun 20, 2017 5:30 AM

  Those Republicans and Democrats in Springfield finally come up with a bill that our governor signs into law, and no one wants to use it.

• Fourth of July festivals, parades and fireworks in the Fox Valley
• Aldi reopens three remodeled stores
• How telecommuters create a new type of Neighborhood Watch
• Lake in the Hills theater offers sensory-friendly movies
• Cougars win streak snapped at 5
• Why Dave Heun hasn’t been to Bien Trucha yet
• Big turnout expected for Geneva’s Swedish Days festival
• Elgin Theatre Company to stage ‘The Odd Couple’

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