3+ day, 16+ min ago   (220+ words) The News-Gazette Mickensey Ellis-White, board president of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Vermilion County, cuts the ribbon on the commission's new office inside the Joseph G. Cannon Building, 201 N. Vermilion St., Danville, for a fresh start in meeting veterans' needs. She was…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (376+ words) Danelle LaFoe has taught at Next Generation Preschool for the last 26 years. Submitted Danelle LaFoe’s first inkling that she’d like to become a teacher came as a 14-year-old, when she babysat neighborhood kids. After earning her associate degree in early-childhood…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (611+ words) Orange-clad new UI students gathered at Gies Memorial Stadium for the annual "Sights and Sounds" event just before the start of the semester. CHAMPAIGN — Shifts in international recruitment and a growing online graduate student population have resulted in changes on…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1110+ words) With John Ross Wilsey and his wife, Brooke, looking on, close to 200 orange-and-blue balloons with notes attached were released in September 2023 in honor of Easton Wilsey, a 9-year-old who was struck and killed by a train on Sept. 8, 2023 in Royal....

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (485+ words) URBANA — An Urbana man has been charged with threatening a school building and trespassing on state-supported land following a report of armed subjects late Monday night at a University of Illinois residence hall. The report resulted in a series of…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1110+ words) With John Ross Wilsey and his wife, Brooke, looking on, close to 200 orange-and-blue balloons with notes attached were released in September 2023 in honor of Easton Wilsey, a 9-year-old who was struck and killed by a train on Sept. 8, 2023 in Royal....

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1035+ words) Top division football and men’s basketball programs would re… "The NCAA should take a sober view of 'professionalism' and … When Rita Garman graduated from law school In 1968, she struggled to find employment. “No one wants to talk to a woman…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (746+ words) Designed to give the public the illusion of independent over… Next to 'Monopoly' and 'Battleship,' 'Get Grandma' is one of the family’s favori… Tosha Bilsbury was named the president for the Greater Champaign-Urbana chapter of Jack and Jill of America....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (578+ words) Bottomland Trail, Sangamon River Forest Preserve Flicker Woods Trail, Homer Lake Forest Preserve From left, Bottomland Trail at Sangamon River Forest Preserve near Fisher; Flicker Woods Trail at Homer Lake Forest Preserve near Homer; and North Waterfowl Trail at Middle…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1159+ words) Jeremy, Kim and Adlee Darnell, with Lacie the English Setter. Considerate employee that he is, JEREMY DARNELL gave the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school district a wee bit more than the usual notice of his plans to leave a job he’s held…...