URBANA — A Mahomet woman who admitted stealing from her former employer for years has been sentenced to probation and ordered to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution.

CHAMPAIGN — The old Rick Orr Florist space won't be vacant for long.

Fleurish, a flower shop now in downtown Urbana, will move to the Rick Orr space at 122 N. Walnut St., C, in a few weeks, shop owner Sarah Compratt said.

"I'm hoping to be open by Sept. 1," she said.

URBANA — Bob McCandless, who shot thousands of portraits of East Central Illinois residents, is closing his photography studio at Lincoln Square after 46 years in business.

But before the doors shut for good, he's offering his proofs and negatives for sale to the subjects. He suggests people call him at the studio before coming by.

CHAMPAIGN — Champaign got a shellacking and Danville might have been better off not mentioned in Forbes magazine's latest rankings of "The Best Small Places to Do Business."

The magazine's July 18 issue ranks the 25 best big cities and the 25 best small places — metropolitan areas with fewer than 250,000 people — in which to do business.