Mixed verdicts in track coach's case involving female students

URBANA – Yuri Ermakov was charismatic, cute, fun and friendly, a great faculty member to hang with, some of his former students said.

Hired in 2004 as an assistant track coach at University High School in Urbana, he was not much older than the students.

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