Local woman loses father in China quake

URBANA – For nearly three days, the phone has been Sue Ye's lifeline, the news reports a link to home in the worst way.

Though she works for Coldwell Banker Devonshire in Champaign, her homeland is China, in the city of Dujiang Yan, a city now in ruins after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Sichuan province.

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