May 2010
The Daily Dose, a potpourri
Mon, 05/31/2010 - 11:17am | Tom KacichFifty years ago
Charleston's two daily newspapers, the morning Charleston Daily News and the afternoon Charleston Daily Courier, merged today. The combined paper will be known as The Charleston Courier-News. The News had been founded in 1892. The Courier had been founded in 1894.
On the Appalachian Trail
Memorial for veterans in St. Joseph getting overhaul
By BRANDON CAMPBELL For The Leader
ST. JOSEPH – Ron Dufrane has been to the funerals of 17 local veterans.
But it was last year's funeral for local veteran David Audo that galvanized Dufrane's efforts to overhaul the veterans' memorial in the St. Joseph-Ogden High School Park.
Picking a Top 25 is tough - just ask the experts
They start filling the racks this week. All full of information and predictions. For the college football fan, the arrival of the preseason magazines means the season isn't far away.
But how did we get here? Who are these people telling us about the Big Ten, Pac-10 and SEC? And how do they come up with the national rankings?
A Vermilion County roll call of those who sacrificed
Afghanistan War
Kenneth Nichols
Iraq War
Justin Penrod
Francis Trussel Jr.
Jeffrey Wallace
Vietnam War
Thomas E. Brown
Jerry M. Chunges
John W. Davis
Francis W. Deal, Jr.
Perry Dicken, Jr.
Robert F. Enderby
A Champaign County roll call of those who sacrificed
Afghanistan War
Sgt. Christopher Rudzinski
Iraq War
Maj. David L. Audo
Staff Sgt. Jason Burkholder
Spc. Justin Penrod
Pfc. Danny Lee Kimme
Pfc. Robert A. Liggett
Sgt. Jessica Cawvey
Spec. Cory Hubbell
Cpl. Nathan Moore
Dissolution of Champaign's liquor advisory panel possible
CHAMPAIGN – The city could lose its liquor advisory commission following this week's city council meeting if council members decide to dissolve the group that provides input on Champaign's liquor-related issues.
Memory Lane: Meet Dan Hartleb
CHAMPAIGN - At a time when Dan Hartleb was first discovering the joys of baseball, a Cincinnati Reds team that came to be known as the Big Red Machine was coming of age.
Like many kids growing up in Ohio in the 1970s, Hartleb became smitten with the dominant major league team of its era. And with one Reds player in particular.
Effectiveness of cell phone ban detailed in UI prof's research
DANVILLE – It's illegal in Illinois to talk on a cell phone in a construction zone, but every driver pulled over for that offense in a recent traffic detail had no idea the law existed.
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