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Aurora officials warned traffic delays were expected as crews shut down a street in the western suburb to repair a gas leak. Around 4 p.m., the City of Aurora said their firefighters were responding to a gas leak on Waterford Drive between Ogden Avenue and the Rush Copley Medical Center. The City of Aurora’s spokesperson said the gas leak began earlier in the afternoon when a construction crew struck the five-inch gas main but did not specifically state when. People working in surrounding buildings were evacuated out of precaution, and the city said nearby residents who weren’t evacuated do not need to be concerned. Nicor Gas was on scene repairing the gas main, the City of Aurora said. Repairs were expected to last into the evening, the city said. Traffic delays are expected in the area as crews repair the leak, the city warned. People are advised to take alternative routes and avoid the area. Montgomery Road is open and can be used to access Ogden Avenue while Waterford Drive is closed. Aurora authorities are in the area to assist with traffic control and evacuation efforts. No additional information was immediately available. Check back for more on this developing story.

A May 2025 internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement document shows that the agency told officers and agents they can forcibly enter homes of people subject to deportation without a warrant signed by a judge. The memo, dated May 12 and which reads that it is from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, was shared with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., by two whistleblowers. It says that ICE agents are allowed to forcibly enter the home of a person using an administrative warrant if a judge has issued a “final order of removal.” Administrative warrants permit officers and agents to make arrests and are different from judicial warrants, which a judge or magistrate signs allowing entry into a home. Lyons notes in the document that detaining people “in their residences” based solely on administrative warrants is a change from past procedures. “Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose,” the memo reads. The memo says that agents may “arrest and detain aliens” in their place of residence who are subject to a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals, or a U.S. district or magistrate judge. The memo says under general guidelines that officers and agents using a method called Form I-205 must “knock and announce” and that “in announcing, officers and agents must state their identity and purpose.” The Associated Press first reported on the document Wednesday. Immigration 9 hours ago Court lifts restrictions on immigration officers' tactics in Minnesota Trump Administration Jan 20 Trump's ICE force is sweeping America. Billions in his tax and spending cuts bill are paying for it Minnesota Jan 20 U.S. citizen says ICE took him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement that immigrants in the country illegally who are served administrative warrants or I-205’s, which are removal or deportation warrants, “have had full due process and a final order of removal from an immigration judge.” “The officers issuing these administrative warrants also have found probable cause,” McLaughlin said. “For decades, the Supreme Court and Congress have recognized the propriety of administrative warrants in cases of immigration enforcement.” The group Whistleblower Aid, which is representing the whistleblowers who shared the memo with Congress, said, “This ‘policy’ flies in the face of longstanding federal law enforcement training material and policies, all rooted in constitutional assessments.” “In other words: the Form I-205 does not authorize ICE agents to enter a home,” the group said in a statement. “Training new recruits, many of whom have zero prior law enforcement training or experience, to seemingly disregard the Fourth Amendment, should be of grave concern to everyone.” Blumenthal said in a statement that the memo was “allegedly not widely distributed” despite being labeled “all-hands.” A copy of the memo shared with Congress is addressed to “All ICE Personnel.” “Instead, the disclosure claims that the memo was rolled out in a secretive manner in which some agents were verbally briefed while others were allowed to view it but not keep a copy,” Blumenthal said. “It was reportedly clear that anyone who openly spoke out against this new directive would be fired.” The memo is dated less than five months into the second term of President Donald Trump, who campaigned on mass deportations. Immigration crackdowns by the Trump administration against several Democrat-run cities have sparked protests and unrest,…

A former Uvalde police officer was acquitted Wednesday of charges that he failed in his duties to confront the gunman at Robb Elementary during the critical first minutes of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Jurors deliberated for more than seven hours before finding Adrian Gonzales, 52, not guilty in the first trial over the hesitant law enforcement response to the 2022 attack, in which a teenage gunman killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers. Had he been convicted, he faced up two years in prison on more than two dozen charges of child abandonment and endangerment. Gonzales appeared to fight back tears and hugged his lawyers after the verdict was read in a courtroom in Corpus Christi, hundreds of miles from Uvalde, where his legal team said a fair trial would not have been possible. “Thank you for the jury for considering all the evidence,” Gonzales told reporters. Asked if he wanted to say anything to the families, he declined. Several family members of the victims sat in silence in the courtroom, some crying or wiping away tears. “Faith is fractured, but you never lose faith,” said Jesse Rizo, whose 9-year-old niece Jackie Cazares was killed. He said he was frustrated by the verdict and hopes the state will press ahead with the trial of former Uvalde schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo, the only other officer who has been charged over the police response. “Those children in the cemetery can’t speak for themselves,” Rizo said. Jurors declined to speak to reporters while leaving. Arredondo’s trial has not yet been set. Paul Looney, his attorney, told The Associated Press that he believes the verdict will result in prosecutors dropping the case against his client. “These people have been vilified, and it’s horrible what’s been done to them. These guys didn’t do anything wrong,” Looney said. A rare trial ends in acquittal The nearly three-week trial was an unusual case in the U.S. of an officer facing criminal charges on accusations of failing to stop a crime and protect lives. The proceedings included emotional testimony from teachers who were shot and survived. Prosecutors argued that Gonzales abandoned his training and did nothing to stop or interrupt the teenage gunman before he entered the school. “We’re expected to act differently when talking about a child that can’t defend themselves,” special prosecutor Bill Turner said during closing arguments Wednesday. “If you have a duty to act, you can’t stand by while a child is in imminent danger.” At least 370 law enforcement officers rushed to the school, where 77 minutes passed before a tactical team finally entered the classroom to confront and kill the gunman. Gonzales was one of just two officers indicted, angering some victim’s relatives who said they wanted more to be held accountable. Gonzales was charged with 29 counts of child abandonment and endangerment — each count representing the 19 students who were killed and 10 others who were injured. Jurors talked about ‘gaps’ in case, lawyer says During the trial jurors heard a medical examiner describe the fatal wounds to the children, some of whom were shot more than a dozen times. Several parents told of sending their children to school for an awards ceremony and the panic that ensued as the attack unfolded. Gonzales’ lawyers said he arrived upon a chaotic scene of rifle shots echoing on school grounds and never saw the gunman before the attacker went inside the school. They also insisted that three other officers who arrived seconds later had a better chance to stop the gunman. “He was the lowest man on the totem pole. They thought he was easy pickings,” Nico LaHood, one of Gonzales’ attorneys, said of prosecutors after the acquittal. Uvalde School Shooting Aug 12, 2025 ‘My kids are in there, bro … please.' Uvalde releases video, records of slow police response Uvalde School Shooting Jun 27, 2024 Former Uvalde school district police chief charged with child endangerment after…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday promised there would be no need for American military might to take Greenland, a nation whose population is about the same as suburban Berwyn and has no independent fighting force. By the afternoon it appeared the president’s deal was accomplished simply by pulling back threatened tariffs on European nations in exchange for greater U.S. influence over the world’s largest island. “It’s a deal that people jumped at. Really fantastic for the USA,” Trump said as he was leaving an economic summit in Davos, Switzerland. “Gets everything we wanted, including, especially, real national security and international security. It’s a long-term deal. It’s the ultimate long- term. I think it puts everybody in a really good position. Especially as it pertains to security and minerals…” In a post on his social media site, Trump said he had agreed with the head of NATO on a “framework of a future deal” on Arctic security, potentially defusing the tense situation. Trump also said more talks would also occur on Greenland’s place as part of the Golden Dome missile defense program, a massive system that would put U.S. weapons in space for the first time. Half-a-world away, U.S. military aircraft are still stationed at a U.S.-operated air base in Greenland, where the American flag is firmly planted in frozen Arctic soil. But scenes of U.S. forces and fighters in Greenland aren’t new. It’s been that way for decades, with the U.S. signing treaties with the kingdom of Denmark, which governs and funds Greenland. The treaties give the U.S. wide defensive military latitude and have ever since World War II, through the Cold War and right up to the present. Hundreds of U.S. service personnel regularly rotate through deployments in the frigid nation, with tons of equipment are in place at American facilities including sophisticated missile tracking systems. Ongoing training is also underway in Greenland, led by U.S. and NATO forces. Those facts lead some experts to question why the Trump administration wants to outright own Greenland, when treaties with Denmark successfully allow protection from foreign threats. “Well, that is the thing that’s a bit confusing about this whole brouhaha, because America has had military bases in Greenland for decades,” said Craig Kafura, director for public opinion and foreign policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “The U.S. by treaty since the 1950’s has had extensive military access to Greenland. Greenland is covered under NATO obligations, and the U.S. And its NATO allies have been conducting operations, increasingly so, in Greenland and from the Arctic more generally. So the idea of needing to conquer Greenland, needing Greenland to be part of the United States for U.S. national security just isn’t true. It doesn’t hold water.” There is idyllic scenery along Greenland’s waterfront, against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains. A population of less than 60,000 people don’t want additional American presence or control, and neither do a majority of Americans according to research by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “In the polling that we’ve seen, Americans don’t favor purchasing Greenland either,” said Kafura. “Of course, if you ask Greenlanders, they’re perfectly happy with the current arrangement. You know, being affiliated with Denmark, being EU citizens, this is not something that they are interested in changing.” The details of the deal have not been made public, and some parties to the discussions tonight say that’s because they haven’t been ironed out. All of this is unfolding in Davos, Switzerland where Trump and many other global leaders were attending the annual World Economic Forum on Wednesday.

Residents of a western suburb were asked to avoid an area where police were investigating a shooting involving an officer Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Around 12:35 p.m., Aurora police said they received a call for help and a report of a person with a weapon on the 300 block of South Broadway. Police who responded to the call found a 27-year-old man who was barricaded inside an apartment building and armed with a knife, authorities said. When authorities approached the man, he displayed the knife and shots were fired by Aurora police officers, authorities said. The man was shot at least once and officers rendered immediate aid until paramedics took over, police said. The man died from his injuries, police said in an update around 9 p.m. Police warned residents to avoid the area as they investigated in a post on social media around 1 p.m. “Due to the large police presence in the area, we are asking the public to stay clear of the immediate area and use alternate routes as officers continue their investigation,” police said in the post. Aerial footage from NBC Sky 5 showed over a dozen police vehicles in the area and several officers on foot near the Citgo gas station at the corner of North Avenue and South Broadway. https://www.facebook.com/AuroraPoliceIL/posts/pfbid07JMfEe2pVLLcC5G8kShn3UAnrjSzYNhe9z7hkLfYt3X8vvhw3oa65n513EhqH7udl Officers involved in the shooting were transported to a local hospital for evaluation, in accordance with Aurora police protocol. The Kane Country Coroner’s Office will conduct an autopsy to determine the man’s exact cause of death, authorities said. An independent investigation is being conducted by the Fox Valley Major Crimes Task Force, police said. Aurora police said they expect body camera footage will be released in the coming days. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact police at 630-256-5500. Check back for more on this developing story.