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After spending the past several years searching for a buyer and trying to make a dent in the mountain of debt tied to the nursing home, many of Champaign County's financial resources are depleted.

URBANA — After spending the past several years searching for a buyer and trying to make a dent in the mountain of debt tied to the nursing home, many of Champaign County's financial resources are depleted.

Twenty-one years ago, the smart folks at WDWS 1400-AM started broadcasting Little League games. Talk about a home run of an idea.

Twenty-one years ago, the smart folks at WDWS 1400-AM started broadcasting Little League games. Talk about a home run of an idea.

An Urbana school district employee was arrested on Friday for allegedly stealing two computers from Urbana High School.

URBANA — An Urbana school district employee was arrested on Friday for allegedly stealing two computers from Urbana High School.
Christopher James Kernan, 26, who listed an address in the 1100 block of East Willard Street, Urbana, was arrested for theft over $500.

Today is Sunday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2019. There are 212 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
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'I hope the garden will always remind its visitors of Yingying and her family.'

Today is Sunday, June 2, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, the Rev. T.J. Owens, pastor of St. Boniface Church in Colfax Township, announced that $20,000 had been raised to build a new convent and parochial school.
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So far, only Republican incumbent Rodney Davis and his 2018 challenger, Springfield Democrat Betsy Londrigan, are raising money and acting like candidates for the 2020 election.

The 2020 election in Illinois' 13th Congressional District, which includes Champaign-Urbana and much of central Illinois down to the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis, already is looking like the 2018 election.

A $500 million state grant for construction of the University of Illinois' vaunted Discovery Partners Institute and statewide "innovation network" is contingent on the school raising the same amount in private matching funds.

News-Gazette Media asked county sheriffs, state's attorneys and police chiefs to weigh in on a 1-to-10 scale.

News-Gazette Media asked county sheriffs, state's attorneys and police chiefs: On a 1-to-10 scale, what's your level of concern about recreational marijuana legalization, which stands one J.B. Pritzker signature away from taking effect in 2020.

As legislators were signing off on a final marijuana legalization bill to ship off to Gov. J.B. Pritzker late last week, News-Gazette Media was surveying 48 county sheriffs, state's attorneys and police chiefs from every corner of the state about their concerns with implementation come 2020. Here are 10 of the recurring themes we heard from panelists.