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‘Nothing has worked;’ Champaign Co. election officials speak on judge shortage, polling place...
WCIA Champaign via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Champaign County is experiencing a shortage of election judges, and the...
Champaign man gets 5 years for having gun after bullet goes into downstairs neighbor's apartment
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 24—URBANA — A Champaign man who admitted having a gun he was not legally entitled to have has been sentenced to five years in prison. Rolan Jones, 25, who listed an address in the 200 block ...
From diehards to casual players, C-U's pickleball boom runs the gamut
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoAug. 13—CHAMPAIGN — Had he known what he knows now, Levi Algozino might've been intimidated by the two older women who stepped onto a pickleball court across from him during a vacation in Michigan ...
Kathy's #Mailbag, Sept. 15, 2023
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSep. 15—What was there before Sweet Basil Cafe? Who's going to clean up the Dart property in Urbana? Why is the I-57/74 project taking so long? When is artwork coming back to Champaign's Porter ...
Former Unity school board member pleads guilty to public indecency
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.· 11 months agoJun. 7—URBANA — The former president of the Unity school board will be able to escape a conviction as a result of a negotiated guilty plea he entered Wednesday. Frederick Koss, 71, of rural ...
CUSF award winners served aces long after winning tennis title
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 5—CHAMPAIGN — Eventually, Anna Jain Bakst and Avra Jain would embark on impressive careers with diverse lines on their resumes. Anna has been an engineer at IBM, editor of a fine-arts magazine ...
Mahomet RV park owner planning unique addition to his hometown
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoJul. 30—MAHOMET — The large picture window in Quentin McNew's apartment just upstairs from the main office of Tin Cup RV Park looks out onto large grassy fields, a narrow road, some small buildings ...
Luke Taylor: Why are pools closing before Labor Day?
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAug. 7—Didn't pools used to stay open until Labor Day? Yes, it's typical for public swimming pools to stay open until Labor Day. But staffing issues have made this impossible in some cases.
Bob Asmussen: Happy birthday, Assembly Hall/State Farm Center. You don't look a day over 60
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 28—Where was Rich Falk on March 4, 1963? Easy answer: on the court at the Assembly Hall starting for the University of Illinois' basketball opponent, Northwestern University. It could have ...
2023-23 High School Confidential: Week 3
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOct. 12—Want to purchase today's print edition? Here's a map of single-copy locations. *** Welcome to Year 8 of High School Confidential, powered by Danville Area Community College. It's an ...