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The costs for the Raptor Visitor Identification System include an initial fee of $2,409 per building, an annual subscription fee of $540 per building and $50 for four rolls of 300 badges, or the labels that visitors wear.

DANVILLE — The Danville school district will roll out a new security system for visitors at two of its largest buildings this fall.

Decatur-based WBUI-TV confirmed the station was no longer being carried on AT&T-owned DirecTV as of 7 p.m. Thursday, as the result of an impasse in negotiations between the station's owner and AT&T.

DECATUR — Television viewers who subscribe to DirecTV won't be able to watch "Supernatural," "The Flash," "Supergirl" or other CW programs for the indefinite future.

A permit to raze the building — vacant since the popular restaurant at 301 S. Mattis Ave. closed in 2015 — was issued Tuesday.

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Sgt. Dave Griffet said one of the men had been under investigation by his unit for about two weeks for alleged drug sales in Urbana.

URBANA — Champaign County Street Crimes Task Force officers arrested two men in Urbana on Tuesday afternoon for fatally shooting a woman as she held her baby daughter on a Chicago street that morning.

Robinson is a 1995 Danville graduate who led Pontiac’s boys’ program the last two seasons, collecting a 34-26 record in that time.

DANVILLE — Durrell Robinson and Zack Patterson will helm the Danville boys’ and girls’ basketball teams, respectively, in the 2019-2020 school year.
Vikings athletic director Mark Bacys announced school board approval of both men Wednesday evening.

Beth Swigart, one of the 176 human cases of the virus in Illinois last year, spent 23 days in the hospital and missed about three months of work while dealing with an infection that 'just had to work its way out.'

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A ceremony is planned today to naugurate a new dormitory and treatment center that can house up to 24 residents. They were the culmination of more than two years of fundraising (to the tune of $615,000).

URBANA — There's a lot of self-discovery that goes into rehabilitation after coping with addiction.

Among the changes are limiting the use of the governor's clemency process to expunge criminal records involving marijuana-related violations to cases involving less than 30 grams and restricting home growing to those approved to use it for medical purposes

By PETER HANCOCKphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com

St. Joseph-Ogden's Bailey Dowling today was named 2018-19 Gatorade Illinois Softball Player of the Year.

The state's all-time home run leader and two-time News-Gazette All-Area Player of the Year has picked up another honor.

C-U Kiwanis will be launching fundraising efforts soon for new fencing at Yankee Ridge's Jeff Kaufman Field, which took a beating in Sunday's tornado.

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