Breast Cancer Awareness month brings out the best in many of our area’s students, pictured in these pages wearing pink uniforms for a good cause.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other representatives from his Rainbow PUSH Coalition attended the burial service at Danville’s Spring Hill Cemetery. They later spoke at Champaign’s Grove Street Church of God in Christ.
A committee will come up with a plan to use Homer's federal coronavirus relief money, but the village's mayor/village president likes the idea of using it to fix sidewalks.
“IBM is exactly the right partner for the assets that Illinois has developed to lead in the 21st century economy, building a deeper foundation for the people and places that will pay dividends for decades to come,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said.
Assistant State’s Attorney Tom Bucher said Calvin Williams lost money at the Brown house and accused Tae Brown of taking it. "Their friendship had soured,” the prosecutor said.
Breast Cancer Awareness month brings out the best in many of our area’s students, pictured in these pages wearing pink uniforms for a good cause.
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On Friday, a man entered First Midwest Bank, 812 W. Springfield Ave., and slipped a note to the employee under the COVID protector demanding cash.
A 37-year-old Rantoul man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left a 16-year-old girl injured.
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday urged eligible Illinoisans to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot and called on skilled nursing facilities to make booster shots available to patients and staff by Thanksgiving.
Like Memorial Stadium, State Farm Center is going cashless for all in-arena concessions and making use of self-order kiosks for food and drink.
The village board heard a proposal from Rantoul natives Dane Ehler, who operates Heartland Hemp Co., and Blake Schilb to amend a village ordinance that prohibits all cannabis businesses in the community.
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 23 Tuesday, while other metrics continued to decline.
“We don’t want metal detectors, but unfortunately we need them. And, if our goal is for them to be temporary fixtures in our schools, it is going to take all of us to get to work on addressing the heartbreaking violence that continues to devastate our community.”
Writes UI Professor Michael LeRoy: "Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick recently predicted: 'Sometime in this school year, somewhere in the legal world or administrative level, a student-athlete will be declared an employee.' Swarbrick is right."
Writes Judy Farney: "Sadly, the GFWC-Woman’s Club of Champaign-Urbana has disbanded. ... The charitable and civic work of this organization made us members humble and proud at the same time."
The prosecutor said Falconer admitted to police he was unemployed and had been selling drugs for about a year.
Deputies were looking for Roubsouay because a woman suspected he had stolen her sport utility vehicle from her driveway on Dodson Drive in Urbana on Aug. 13 or 14.
The jury found that Lamont Davis killed Mr. Daubaris, 20, during the course of a home invasion and aggravated battery.
U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm found Dalton M.C. Burmeister’s conduct to be particularly egregious because he sent explicit text messages to “vulnerable” and “trusting” children in his care and spread sexually explicit images of the children.
URBANA — A Springfield man who allegedly molested a child several years ago remained in the Champaign County Jail on Sunday in lieu of $500,000 bond.
URBANA — Champaign County Crime Stoppers needs help finding the people firing guns in an Urbana neighborhood.
At Monday's Annual Meeting of the Faculty, Chancellor Robert Jones and President Tim Killeen highlighted recent university accomplishments and answered a few questions for faculty and student senators.
At least a few thousand people in Champaign County have gotten Pfizer booster shots for COVID-19, said Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Deputy Administrator Awais Vaid.
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
Board member Minore “Moto” Johnson cast the lone “no” vote in the censure vote against him.
Urbana police came into contact with Calhoun because he allegedly threatened a man with a gun after the man confronted him for nearly running him off the road.
As officers put him in handcuffs, they saw him drop a bag containing white powder and kick it under the squad car.
A Danville man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender.
A Savoy man as been sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
When Milton Davis was arrested on June 28, he told police he hadn’t turned himself in because he “wanted more time.”
“I do believe that, from the time they leave home, when they get here is the first time they can take a breath,” says Cunningham Children's Home CEO and president Marlin Livingston.
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