Zamuel Mull, 9, of Aurora, looks forward to Easter every year which always includes hunting for eggs. Zamuel said he had a strategy when his turn came to go and collect some eggs on Saturday morning during the Easter egg hunt at Redeemer Community Church in Aurora. “My strategy is go to the back. There’s mostly eggs back there,” he said. “No one ever goes there. Mostly people go to the front but no one goes to the back. I’ve done this before and I know how they do it....

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 30-hour pause in hostilities in Ukraine that will cover Easter Sunday, even as he continues to resist U.S. pressure for a 30-day ceasefire in the three-year conflict. The truce took effect at 6 p.m. Moscow time on Saturday is slated to end at midnight Sunday, Putin said at a televised meeting with the military’s chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov. “I order all combat operations to cease for that period. We proceed from the premise that the Ukrainian side will follow our example,”...

A new single-family home subdivision by national homebuilder Pulte Homes could be coming to land near Marmion Academy in Aurora. Harvest Point subdivision would contain 59 single-family homes between roughly 2,300 and 3,200 square feet with three to five bedrooms and two- or three-car garages, according to a presentation by Russ Whitaker, a Naperville-based attorney who represented Pulte at an April 9 meeting of the Aurora City Council’s Building, Zoning and Economic Development Committee. Plans for the site are set to go before the Aurora City Council for approval at...