New seven-day positivity rates: Douglas 14.9%, Ford 9.6, Iroquois 13.4, Piatt 8.3, Vermilion 14.7, UI campus 0.6, Region 6 12.1, state 10.4. ... Illinois reports 192 lives lost, following up its deadliest day of the pandemic with more grim news. Says Gov. J.B. Pritzker: “I look at it and I say ‘How can people not follow the mitigations watching the number of people who are passing away?'"
Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said Nadirah C. Edwards, 17, of St. Joseph was pronounced dead at 1:51 p.m. Thursday at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, where she was taken after the wreck.
U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm noted the violent nature of the images of infants and toddlers that William Armstrong, 25, had when he was arrested.
Marcell Mitchell, 32, of Champaign was arraigned Thursday on charges of leaving the scene of an accident.
The 80-year-old former Scout leader who helped more than 300 young men attain their Eagle Scout rank told the judge and others who were listening that he was ashamed of himself for conduct that exceeded mere possession of child pornography but for which he was not criminally charged
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His 14th year of teaching at St. Joseph-Ogden may be the most memorable of them all, and the 2001 Centennial graduate is trying to make the most of the strange circumstances, engaging his students online while trying to broaden their understanding of the English language.
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Chicago-born, Michigan-raised UI Dance Head Jan Erkert takes us on a virtual tour of her favorite places and spaces — from Erlanger House (where her future husband popped the question) to the basketball courts at Illini Grove (aka the department's makeshift dance floor this fall).
The 80-year-old former Scout leader who helped more than 300 young men attain their Eagle Scout rank told the judge and others who were listening that he was ashamed of himself for conduct that exceeded mere possession of child pornography but for which he was not criminally charged
DANVILLE — Ninety-two rental units in the Fair Oaks public-housing complex on Danville’s east side are set to be demolished and their tenants relocated by the Vermilion Housing Authority.
Longtime Rantoul-area resident Fred Meek, who died Nov. 26 at age 77, is being remembered for life spent in service to others.
Area hunters brought in more deer during the first season than last year, led, as usual, by Vermilion County, where they bagged 329 deer.
Five hunters and their mentors will be selected for each of the three weeks of the program, which runs Dec. 13 to Jan. 3 in a 30- to 40-acre area in Kickapoo.
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