City council avoids staff layoffs in 2027 budget plan requiring $10.2 million in cuts
AURORA | City council is moving forward with a 2027 budget that would require $10.2 million in cuts to spending, but will avoid staff layoffs. Lawmakers went through the budget in-depth at an Oct. 3 workshop, where they added a fourth homelessness mobile response team and a code enforcement officer and cut funding for Flock […]
Football: Aurora’s Week 7 scoreboard, schedule
Scoreboard, highlights and schedule for Aurora area teams in Week 7 or the 2026 prep football season, which concludes Friday.
Aurora prep sports scoreboard, 10.7.26
The Aurora prep sports scoreboard for Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, includes results and highlights for Aurora area teams in softball, boys soccer, girls volleyball and girls flag football.
Football: Aurora’s 2026 Week 7 schedule
Schedule for Aurora teams in Week 7 of the 2026 prep football season, which begins with two games involving area teams Thursday.
Aurora prep sports scoreboard, 10.8.26
The Aurora prep sports scoreboard for Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, includes results and highlights for Aurora area teams in football, softball, boys soccer, girls volleyball, cross country, girls flag football and field hockey.
Rubio refuses to comment on Guilfoyle allegations
ATHENS, Greece | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday flatly refused to comment on a new report alleging that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before taking up her post. Rubio told reporters that he would not discuss the allegations contained in a Wall Street Journal […]
Trump administration proposes a $70,000 fee for international students to work in the US
WASHINGTON | The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down on foreign enrollment. A proposed rule would require schools to pay the fee for every student who participates in the optional practice […]
Trump’s $90 Medicare rebate rolls out, but millions aren’t eligible. Critics see a political stunt
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump says his administration will make one-time payments of $90 per person to help more than 20 million Medicare enrollees pay for their Part B premiums. It will cost about $2 billion. Less than one-third of all Medicare recipients are eligible for the payments, which are expected to be sent out […]
Ex-Marine to face death penalty in 2025 mass shooting at North Carolina bar
BOLIVIA, N.C. | A prosecutor announced Wednesday that he would seek the death penalty against a former Marine charged in a mass shooting last year that left three people dead and several others wounded. “We are not blind to who this defendant is,” Brunswick County District Attorney Jon David said of defendant Nigel Max Edge. […]
Judge says search warrants used to seize property from former Prince Andrew were unlawful
LONDON | Police who searched the properties of the former Prince Andrew and seized his property in the investigation into his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have agreed the search warrants were unlawful, a London judge said Thursday. Justice Nicholas Hilliard said that the Thames Valley Police had made a significant error […]