MONTICELLO — The Allerton Public Library District has received a $100,000 grant from the local Robert Mulligan Trust to digitize old Piatt County newspapers and yearbooks.
A digital image is an electronic snapshot scanned from a document. The process allows for the images to be made searchable and available online.
The House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee on Thursday morning approved a higher education budget bill on a partisan, 14-9, roll call. All Democrats voted for the bill; all Republicans were opposed.
SPRINGFIELD — The House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee on Thursday morning approved a higher education budget bill on a partisan, 14-9, roll call. All Democrats voted for the bill; all Republicans were opposed.
Five people have been arrested as part of an investigation into what police say is a cocaine conspiracy in DeWitt County.
According to a release from Task Force 6, a multi-jurisdictional police group, the following people were arrested Wednesday in Clinton on state warrants:
The man who helped make The High School of Saint Thomas More a reality has been honored outside that school.
The man who helped make The High School of Saint Thomas More a reality has been honored outside that school.
Champaign city officials and others gathered on Thursday to dedicate Saber Drive between Mattis Avenue and Olympian Drive as Honorary Tom Harrington Senior Way.
CHAMPAIGN - A Champaign man has been charged with home invasion and battery after allegedly forcing his way into a woman's home early Thursday.
Jovonie Jackson, 24, who listed an address in the 600 block of Crescent Drive, was arrested not long after a 2 a.m. incident in the 1500 block of North Mattis Avenue, Champaign.
Researchers at the University of Illinois are making smartphones even smarter in the medical field.
Researchers at the University of Illinois are making smartphones even smarter in the medical field.
UI Professor Brian Cunningham and his team of engineers have made a sensor and app for the iPhone that can be used to detect things like bacteria, cells and viruses.
A longtime barber in Champaign who's hanging up his scissors this week is being remembered for impacting generations of people for nearly half of a century.
A longtime barber in Champaign who's hanging up his scissors this week is being remembered for impacting generations of people for nearly half of a century.
Joe Taylor has been a barber in Champaign for 48 years, except for the three years he served in the Army.
A flash flood watch has been issued for Ford and Iroquois Counties until Saturday night.
A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for eastern Edgar County and southeastern Vermilion County until 4 p.m. Thursday.
A tornado watch has been issued for the following counties until 8 o'clock Thursday night: DeWitt, Piatt, Macon, Moultrie and Shelby.
Here is a roundup of reports of activity for Champaign, Urbana and University of Illinois police departments.
Here is the report of activity for Champaign police for Wednesday, May 29, 2013.
In exchange for agreeing to gradually assume pension costs of their employees, Illinois public universities are getting regulatory and efficiency relief in three areas, according to legislation that cleared a House committee Thursday afternoon.
SPRINGFIELD -- In exchange for agreeing to gradually assume pension costs of their employees, Illinois public universities are getting regulatory and efficiency relief in three areas, according to legislation that cleared a House committee Thursday afternoon.
A vote by the full House could follow later tonight.
CHAMPAIGN — A Georgia man was injured in a single vehicle accident at a Champaign interchange Thursday morning.
URBANA — An Urbana woman with a history of deceptive practice convictions was sentenced to four years in prison for her latest.
Norma J. Carroll, 44, who listed an address in the 1600 block of Olympian Road, pleaded guilty in April to burglary, admitting that she went into the Illini Currency Exchange, 1304 N. Prospect Ave., Champaign, on Feb. 18 intending to cash a forged check.
URBANA — Ryan Martin told a Champaign County judge that he no longer feels safe living in his own apartment and spends much of his time with his parents when he's not working.
URBANA — A man who whipped his girlfriend with an electrical cord and stabbed her in the leg with a knife was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.
State incentives for a proposed $1.4 billion fertilizer plant in Tuscola are included in legislation that also contains provisions for land acquisition for a Peotone airport, an expansion of McCormick Place in Chicago and several other projects.
SPRINGFIELD -- State incentives for a proposed $1.4 billion fertilizer plant in Tuscola are included in legislation that also contains provisions for land acquisition for a Peotone airport, an expansion of McCormick Place in Chicago and several other projects.
The incentives for the Tuscola plant had been included in separate legislation sponsored by Rep. Adam Brown, R-Champaign.
URBANA — A Rantoul man accused of sexually molesting a young boy is due back in court July 30 after being charged with a Class X felony.
Roberto Barbosa, 24, who listed an address in the 1300 block of Doolittle Boulevard, was arraigned Thursday on a single count of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, which was filed Wednesday.
URBANA — A convicted sex offender with a history of not registering his whereabouts with authorities has been sentenced to four years in prison for that offense.
Christopher Powell, 28, whose last known address was in the 300 block of Century Boulevard, Rantoul, pleaded guilty in April to failure to register as a sex ofender.
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Sentencing will be July 19 for a man convicted of killing five members of his ex-wife's family with a tire iron in a small town in central Illinois.
Images from the Mahomet-Seymour High School graduation ceremonies on Sunday, May 25, 2013.
RANTOUL — Two Rantoul men who were allegedly stealing items from a business struck by fire earlier this month have been charged with burglary.
