Power problems persist in DeLand

DELAND – Dorothy Gregory huddled around the candlelit kitchen table with her husband, Lawrence, and her son, Curtis.

With temperatures outside their icy house in the teens, the Gregory family tried to stay home with the help of a kerosene heater they purchased several years ago.

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• Carbon monoxide detectors to be required in nearly all homes
• Police seek details on thefts of street signs
• Mattoon man admits to role in kidnapping
• Urbana alderwoman changes mind on exemption
• Fahey sworn in as judge by husband
• Veterans Affairs nursing staff preparing to picket
• Champaign man accused in campus hit-and-run accident
• Vermilion County Board makes sweeping changes
• Weibel selected as new Champaign County Board chair
• Obituaries

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