14 new cases in Vermilion County report symptoms; six others say they're asymptomatic. ... State's 3.5% seven-day rate is 15th-lowest nationally, third-best in Midwest (Michigan at 2.5, Ohio at 3.1). ... UI campus has now gone 10 straight days without a daily rate higher than 0.5%.
CHAMPAIGN — Wolfram Research is suing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services after it denied a visa petition for one of its employees.
The bullets went through windows, passing over two children under the age of 10 who were sleeping. No one was injured.
Fall is the ideal time to plant the cool-season grasses we most commonly use for lawns. These plants thrive in the cooler part of our growing season, putting on the most growth in spring and fall.
URBANA — A workshop for Urbana police and the community on “10 Shared Principles” was an encouraging start, according to NAACP of Champaign County President Minnie Pearson and city officials.
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Squirrels in Crystal Lake Park, concrete medians on I-74, smoke from the West Coast fires obscuring the sun over central Illinois, drive-through flu shots and the possible return of Illini hockey may in 2021.
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The money will enable the program to expand the life coaching and career training the program offers to 16-to-24-year-old males from once a week to multiple times a week.
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Who are the most agile pooches in the area? How about the state?
Three days after setting a new single-day high for new cases with 32, Vermilion County matches it. The new cases include an infant. ... Just two new cases reported in both Douglas and Ford counties. ... Up in Champaign County: recovered cases (by 85) and hospitalizations (by one). Down: seven-day positivity rate (to 1.2%), active cases in Mahomet (by three).
A police report said the officers found 30 cannabis plants, weighing just over 30 pounds, in the house.
On March 6, Burries-Brumfield allegedly went in Lacy’s Place, 1710 W. Bradley Ave., C, put a gun to the back of a female employee’s head, pushed her head to the counter and took cash from the register before fleeing.
A search of the van turned up a loaded 9 mm handgun under the passenger seat. Police also found three plastic bags containing more than 4.5 grams of suspected cocaine.
A 20-year-old Champaign man has been arrested in connection with a Sept. 7 shooting of a 27-year-old man.
The Commonwealth Edison bribery scandal — just the latest political scandal to hit Illinois — represents both a challenge and an opportunity as the November election approaches.
CHICAGO — In arguments Thursday before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, an attorney for the estate of a well-known Champaign homeless man who died during an interaction with police in 2016 compared him to the town drunk in “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Ja Nelle Pleasure’s latest exhibit of recycled art is on display at Randolph Street Community Gardens as part of 40 North’s program, which involves 10 pieces being installed across Champaign-Urbana.
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CHAMPAIGN — Want to help your kids stay focused on their classwork when school is being accessed from a computer at home?
Today is Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
Our newsroom celebrated a streak we’re mighty proud of on Thursday afternoon, four months later than planned.
How Illinois' seven-day positivity rate compares to those of a few of its neighbors: Michigan: 2.7%; Kentucky: 3.2%; Ohio: 3.5%; Illinois: 3.6%; Indiana: 6.1%; Minnesota: 8.2%; Nebraska: 10.6%; Missouri: 10.8%; Iowa: 13.6%; Wisconsin: 14.7%.
“At this point, authorities are unable to confirm the human remains are that of David Franklin,” Rantoul police Sgt. Rodney Sullivan said. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday to begin the identification process and to determine the cause of death.
McCray was accused of shooting into the door of a car he had just exited in the parking lot of Country Brook Apartments in Champaign. The jury rejected McCray’s last-minute claim that he fired in self-defense because the driver was backing toward him quickly.
A day after the city council voted 5-2 to allow the district to make changes to the SRO contract if it wished, school board members opted to table the conversation for another day in a meeting that got heated at times.
The return of Big Ten football will come with strict medical protocols that will include daily COVID-19 testing for athletes and team staff and a 21-day isolation period for athletes testing positive.
Gus, a trained allergen alert dog, has been at her side - and a big help.
The return of Big Ten football was only part of an onslaught of promising campus news during a school year that's had little of it. Also OK'd: the start of the college basketball season and the kickoff of movie night and a concert this weekend at Memorial Stadium.
'I think Unit 4 needs to hear from more people. I’m glad I got to voice my opinion'
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