This weekend's 'Four Color Fest' marks the 40th anniversary of UI mathematicians Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel being the first people to prove a major theroem with help from a computer.
URBANA — Here's the task: Color a map of the United States so that no two adjacent states have the same color.
What's the least amount of colors you would need?
The answer to that question took mathematicians over a century to prove, with the assistance of a computer at the University of Illinois.
Cowboys and cowgirls have taken over the Gordyville USA Arena in Gifford for this weekend's International Professional Rodeo Association Central Region Finals.
Cowboys and cowgirls have taken over the Gordyville USA Arena in Gifford for this weekend's International Professional Rodeo Association Central Region Finals. Athletes have been competing in events throughout the summer on the road to Gifford.
The union will continue to bargain with the university as it prepares a strike plan, said Co-President Gus Wood. The next negotiating session is scheduled for Tuesday, the fifth with a federal mediator.
URBANA — Members of the Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois have authorized a strike in ongoing contract negotiations with the administration, but no walkout has been scheduled for now.
Ryan Washkowiak, who lost two relatives in a span of 18 months, was a Danville High sophomore when he conceived the 5K event to raise money for United Samaritans' cancer center. He handed over an extra-large check for $6,840 on Friday.
DANVILLE — A Vermilion County cancer center got a donation Friday from an area resident.
That's not unusual.
What is: This donor was 18.
With the city council set to be briefed Monday on Year 1 of the CU Fresh Start initiative, Sylvia Morgan said the lack of homicides this year after four in 2016 is 'the natural ebb and flow of things for now.'
URBANA — With 57 days left in the year, Urbana police haven't had to investigate a single homicide in 2017.
That's a far cry from last year, when it saw four, marking "an all-time high in the 24 years that I've worked here," police Chief Sylvia Morgan said.
URBANA — An Urbana woman who picked up a package at the post office containing thousands of dollars worth of cannabis was arrested Friday.
Urbana police Sgt. Andy Hewkin said detectives from the Street Crimes Task Force were alerted by postal inspectors Friday that they had a suspicious package at their Urbana facility.
URBANA — Three men who allegedly broke into vehicles in Rantoul early Friday are expected to be formally charged Monday.
Here is a list of street closures and road construction in East Central Illinois, provided by public works offices: (If your public works department wants to send one, submit it via email to breaking@news-gazette.com.)
CHAMPAIGN — Bold shoplifters apparently working as a team made off with an undetermined amount of men's coats from a Champaign store Friday evening.
Champaign police Sgt. Jaceson Yandell said police were called to Champaign Surplus, 303 S. Neil St., about 6:43 p.m.
Lyle Lovett (left) and John Hiatt perform for the crowd at the Virginia Theatre Saturday evening. Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt perform live at the Virginia Theatre, Saturday, November 4, 2017.
Today is Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1917, Louisville's negro segregation ordinance was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision affected similar ordinances in St. Louis, Baltimore, Richmond and other cities.
Champaign's Tim Dixon isn't one to brag about all he does for the American Heart Association. But if he bumped into those doctors who didn't give him much of a chance as a baby, he might just beat his chest a bit.
Champaign's TIM DIXON isn't one to brag about all he does for the American Heart Association. But if he bumped into those doctors who didn't give him much of a chance as a baby, he might just beat his chest a bit.
"They told my parents I wouldn't do much of anything," he said. "I guess I proved them wrong."
Today is Sunday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2017. There are 56 days left in the year.
On Nov. 5, 1942, American showman and songwriter George M. Cohan died in New York at age 64.
In 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.
Staff writer Paul Wood chats with the UI assistant professor who's working on problems in human-computer interaction and has co-founded Rico, which will make apps have better user interaction.
Each week, staff writer Paul Wood chats with a high-tech difference-maker. This week, meet RANJITHA KUMAR, an assistant professor in the University of Illinois departments of computer science and electrical and computer engineering.
Business groups have for years sought to persuade Illinois legislators to limit the worst of what they consider to be abusive litigation, mostly without success.
Trooper, who was speeding in response to call about Pendleton shooting, collided with woman's van
DECATUR — After Dracy "Clint" Pendleton shot Mahomet police Officer Jeremy Scharlow on May 7, 2016, state trooper Jeffrey Denning responded to the code red call and collided with a van turning left into its path, killing its driver, 26-year-old Kelly Wilson.
More than a year later, litigation on that case is still pending.
How long has the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District's standard cash fare been $1?
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How long has the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District's standard cash fare been $1?
For quite some time.
Since defying the odds last Nov. 8, the president who pledged to make America great has managed to stay in the headlines day after day after day.
Three-hundred sixty-two days, 2,148 @realDonaldTrump tweets, two heated health care showdowns and one Anthony Scaramucci ago, we in the so-called fake news media got it all wrong.
The history-making election that most pundits predicted would end with the first woman moving into the Oval Office instead ended with the first ex-reality TV host becoming commander in chief.
As we wind down the year the UI turned the big 1-5-0, the alumni memories of favorite places, spaces and faces continue to pour in.
As we wind down the year the UI turned the big 1-5-0, the alumni memories of favorite places, spaces and faces continue to pour in.
Here's a new batch of 10. For another 1,032, visit uof1150.news-gazette.com, which we'll keep updating seven days a week.
Democrats on board have to find an estimated $1.4 million in cuts or new revenue to balance the county's spending plan for the year beginning Jan. 1.
Champaign County Board members who want to both keep the county nursing home under public control and avoid layoffs in other departments are getting deeply immersed in the county budget in advance of a critical meeting.
The choices are not easy.
