Aurora execs' new duties bring more pay
At a time when the city of Aurora has been tightening its belt, laying off employees and asking its unions for concessions, 12 executive employees have received promotions and pay increases, according to finance documents released last week.

Coroner disagreed with CSI team on Savio
Update: The deputy coroner who took the Kathleen Savio death call testified in a Will County courtroom today that state police Crime Scene Investigator Robert Deel told him there was nothing "we need to be looking for here," prompting him to abandon the suspicious death protocol.

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Promise to mom can wait
Where in the world is Matt Miller? Good question. For the time being, he's back home in Aurora, doing work as an athletic trainer and organizing a summer basketball camp at the Fox Valley Park District's Eola Center. Usually, though, it's wise to have an atlas and a globe handy to find him. In the nine years since he earned Beacon-News All-Area Basketball honors as a senior point guard for coach David Saurbaugh at Waubonsie Valley High School, Miller has been here, there and, well, darn near everywhere. England, Spain, Germany, Bosnia, Romania, Ethiopia and Rwanda are just some of the stamps on the well-worn passports of this professional player.

Night Ice Fishing set for Shabbona Lake
Dr. Robert Weil: The week before an intrepid band of enthusiastic Shabbona Lake supporters descended on the 318-acre reservoir, Shabbona Lake Sportsmens' Club president Rich McElligott predicted another successful lake improvement project.