URBANA – Proposals to abolish three different Champaign County government offices will be studied by a Champaign County Board subcommittee for the next few months before the county board takes any action on them.

A decision about whether to create a subcommittee to review the effectiveness of the county co-administrator system was deferred by a month, however, after board member Steve Beckett objected to fellow board member, lawyer and Democrat Bob Kirchner serving on the subcommittee.

URBANA – A bar owner in unincorporated Urbana is proposing that Champaign County extend alcohol sales in unincorporated areas of the county until 3 a.m. and extend bar closing hours to 4 a.m.

Ike Mapson, owner of the Malibu Bay Lounge, 3106 N. Cunningham Ave., U, made the proposal recently to the Champaign County Liquor Advisory Commission. Mapson serves on the seven-member commission that advises the county board.

Miss America, Erika Harold, often is asked if she plans to become an entertainer. She doesn't see that happening unless she is asked to become a legal commentator after she graduates from Harvard Law School.

The 23-year-old Urbana native and University of Illinois graduate already has done commentary three times on the "Saturday Final with Lawrence O'Donnell" program on MSNBC Television, which airs over Channel 47 in Champaign-Urbana.

Jeff Kustusch did everything right. He bought a cheap bicycle at the annual University of Illinois police auction, locked it up everywhere he went and it still got stolen.

It happened in September 2002. Kustusch finished an afternoon chemistry class at Noyes Lab and rode back home, placed a metal chain and combination lock on the bike and wrapped it around a rack on the first floor of his apartment. When he woke up the next morning, the red and black Huffy was missing.