Champaign County (Illinois)

Authorities in Texas credit emergency notification alerts sent via telephone with saving lives after a deadly storm swept through the small community of Granbury on Wednesday night. The same technology is available in Clark and Champaign counties, but...

An Urbana teenager was ordered to serve probation, perform community service and apologize to her classmates after she admitted to writing a bomb threat on a school bathroom wall earlier this year. Brianne N. Castle, 19, of Urbana, had previously...

Kiefer Manning doesn't have to guess who's coming to dinner at Biaggi's the next two weeks. Tennis fans, and lots of them -- in town to see the NCAA men's and women's tennis championships. "I've been looking at the bookings, and we do see a definite...

Nearly 70 public employers in Clark and Champaign counties could see a combined $1.8 million refund on their 2011 Bureau of Worker's Compensation premiums -- and could see a 4 percent reduction in future rates -- if a proposal is passed later this month....

Voters in Urbana overwhelmingly approved a five-year, 9.75-mill renewal levy last week, a result district officials said will allow them to avoid cuts that would have slashed busing to state minimums and required eliminating extracurricular activities....

Springfield has hosted an increasing number of job fairs over the last two years, but the latest was so successful that employers see it as a sign of an improved economy. More than 600 people attended the March 13 job fair, which 75 percent of...

Increased competition and more demand for flexibility has led Urbana University to make program changes that officials said will make earning a degree more convenient for students at the private school. The university, which serves about 1,100...

Tim Kemper couldn't help but grin as he pulled a rope to set the bell clanging atop Woodstock Community Church. "We all rang this bell as kids," the 56-year-old Kemper said, referring to local Lions Club members who recently gathered to discuss...

It may be only 100 days or so into U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis' first term as a congressman, but there is already at least one name being floated to challenge him in 2014: Madison County Chief Judge Ann Callis. Callis is seriously pondering a run in the 13th...

The Pleasant Twp. Fire and EMS Department purchased a $31,000 cardiac monitor thanks in part to a $10,000 donation from a man whose life they saved in 2011 in a difficult wooded rescue. Indianapolis resident Edwin "Ned" Kirby, then 73, was blazing...

South Side rapper Lil Reese's Sunday arrest on a felony warrant is tied to a 2012 videotaped incident in which he purportedly beat and stomped a woman in her Champaign home, police said Monday. Video of the attack went viral late last year, with...

South Side rapper Lil Reese was caught sleeping in a car early Sunday and arrested on a warrant. The arrest warrant was issued Thursday in Champaign County for Lil Reese, 20, whose birth name is Tavares Taylor. He was arrested about 4 a.m. Sunday in...