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Ana Milena Edwards is proud to prove her critics wrong and her daughter right in earning her diploma Saturday at State Farm Center as a graduate of Urbana Adult Education.

CHAMPAIGN — Ana Milena Edwards just wanted something to be entirely hers.

As many as 78 boys and girls will have an opportunity to take part in camps in the Garden Hills neighborhood and at Douglass Park this summer.

CHAMPAIGN — As many as 78 boys and girls will have an opportunity to take part in camps in the Garden Hills neighborhood and at Douglass Park this summer.

Rates have fallen in every community but Allerton, thanks in part to tax caps and the sale of the county's former nursing home. Bills are still tentatively set to be mailed Tuesday, according to Treasurer Laurel Prussing.

URBANA — Property-tax rates have fallen throughout Champaign County in every community but Allerton, thanks in part to tax caps and the sale of the county's former nursing home.

U.S. 150 between Fithian and Muncie will be closed to traffic most of today as crews repair power lines damaged during early morning storms.
 

One 16-year-old boy had pleaded guilty to mob action in March and got a year of probation, while another 16-year-old who had no prior criminal record was referred to a program of public service and counseling.

Former News-Gazette All-Area Player of the Year Michael Finke will play for Illinois BC in this summer's The Basketball Tournament on ESPN.

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Former News-Gazette All-Area Player of the Year Michael Finke will play for Illinois BC in this summer's The Basketball Tournament on ESPN.

'Moving forward Garfield’s will no longer be open. Thank you for your continued patronage.'

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The Danville Lutheran School educators taught second grade for 10 years, fifth grade for two and has been teaching a combined third- and fourth-grade classroom for the last five.

A recent House amendment to Senate Bill 1862 would create the Scott's Law Fund, which would be used to produce materials related to educating drivers 'on approaching stationary authorized emergency vehicles.'

By LINDSAY SALVATELLIlsalvatelli@capitolnewsillinois.com

For their extensive work and generosity locally, Ed and Carol Scharlau will be presented Thursday with the Community Foundation of East Central Illinois' Kyle and Phyllis Robeson Philanthropy Award.