AURORA, IL — A single-family house in the 400 block of Superior Street in Aurora caught fire on Dec. 28, killing two pets and displacing a family, officials said. Click Here: Kanken No. 2 Backpack A total of 26 personnel responded to the 2.5-story residence at about 7:36 p.m. Saturday. The first arriving units reported […]
LA GRANGE, IL – La Grange police are issuing far fewer traffic tickets than they used to, a state database shows. In 2023, the village gave 458 tickets, far fewer than the 2,800 in 2009. From 2020 to 2022, the village failed to turn in state-mandated annual traffic stop reports. Click Here: penrith panthers rugby […]
LONG ISLAND, NY — As the search for Emma Gervasi reaches three weeks, members of the community have come forward with the organization of a search party on New Year’s Eve in Shirley, a neighborhood she has been known to frequent. On Dec. 9, she told her stepmother that she had to get something from […]
CONCORD, NH — Tuesday marks the end of the career of John Thomas, the deputy chief for the Concord Police Department, as a police officer for the city. Thomas started working for the department in July 1994, right out of school, when the city was a little different than it is now. Its population was […]
ENFIELD, CT — The latest installment of this periodic informative series on Patch sites in northern Connecticut, providing facts and figures about some of the state roads which wind through the area, features a route which begins in Massachusetts and ends in Connecticut, yet only traverses one town in each state. Route 220 begins as […]
NORTH BABYLON, NY — Party supply retail chain Party City will be closing 14 stores on Long Island, including its North Babylon location the company said in a statement on Saturday. An employee told Patch the store on Deer Park Avenue will close its door for good on Feb. 28, 2025. Until then, it’s offering […]
ELMHURST, IL – A former Elmhurst School District 205 official used his credit card for $47,615 in personal expenses over more than two years, but paid back those costs monthly, public records show. Is there a possible criminal charge for the situation involving Todd Schmidt, the district’s former facilities director? Some of the facts resemble […]
MASTIC BEACH, NY — A man escaped from a partially submerged SUV at Jefferson Drive Beach in Mastic Beach on Christmas night, Suffolk police said. He was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked 2006 Land Rover at Jefferson Drive and Dock Road at around 4:45 p.m., when the tide came in and the […]
JOLIET — More than two years have passed since Joliet Patch reported that the Bed, Bath & Beyond storefront at 2850 Plainfield Road was going out of business as part of a nationwide downsizing negatively impacting 56 stores. The national retailer sold a variety of home goods, bedding, kitchenware, towels and other home decor. Now, […]
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY — A Long Island Rail Road train crashed into a vehicle on the tracks in Central Islip, MTA told Patch. MTA police said that a westbound LIRR Ronkonkoma Branch train crashed into a car containing its driver around 4:20 a.m. at the Lowell Ave grade crossing, just east of Central Islip, near […]