DeKalb County Sheriff's Office

Local DeKalb County police agencies are warning residents to expect another round of loud booms Wednesday, as the Kane County Bomb Squad will be in the area again setting off explosives at a local quarry.

A man from a small town near the Illinois-Kentucky border facing felony burglary and drug possession charges pleaded guilty in DeKalb County court Monday and in exchange offered testimony against a co-defendant.

The DeKalb County Coroner’s Office confirmed a 46-year-old Aurora man died in a fatal motorcycle crash Tuesday afternoon near Shabbona.

Update: Bond for a DeKalb man charged with attempted murder and arrested Sunday following a recent shooting inside a garage in the Suburban Apartments residential complex on Twombly Road has been set at $250,000.

A North Aurora man is facing charges after police say he allegedly attacked an autistic student, rendering the 14-year-old unconscious on a bus ride back to the boy's Montgomery home from Camelot Northwest Center for Autism in Genoa. The boy was unconscious for more than a half hour before paramedics were called to resuscitate him.

A Yorkville man has been accused of starting a fire in a Plano Walmart, before setting two buildings on fire in DeKalb and then leading police on a chase, where he was arrested on his way to Dixon.