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Champaign County Crime Stoppers needs help solving a shoplifting crime at a Market Place Mall store.

CHAMPAIGN — Champaign County Crime Stoppers needs help solving a shoplifting crime at a Market Place Mall store.
About 11:48 a.m. on Sunday, March 31, a man and woman entered Carter's and began putting items in bags and in the woman's purse, police said.

Unit 4 administrator Jennifer Ivory-Tatum was chosen from a field of three finalists at Sunday night's Urbana school board meeting.

URBANA — Cross the word “assistant” out of Jennifer Ivory-Tatum’s title.

We're up to 1,675 alumni tales at our 'UI at 150 Years & Beyond' website (uofi150.news-gazette.com), with fresh content added daily. Here's a new batch of 10 grads sharing memories about the people and places on campus and around Campustown that they won't soon forget.

Photos of wildlife that The News-Gazette's Stephen Haas has seen within the Champaign, Urbana and Savoy city limits between assignments this spring.

The Old Washington school building, opened in 1894, is slated for demolition this summer.

MONTICELLO — It's easy to see why Monticello fifth-grade teacher Kathy White will have trouble letting go of the Old Washington school building.

For instance, when Mahomet annexed a bar in 2017, the limit for Class A licenses was set at 0. Now the village has 10 packaged liquor licenses.

When Mahomet annexed the land Fred Barbadillo's bar was on in 2017, the village faced a minor dilemma.
It had a Class A license for bars, but the limit was set at zero.

If you can find your way through the obstacle course of street and sidewalk repair work, this is an ideal time to get reacquainted with one of the best things about living in East Central Illinois.

Bill Taylor's last day as principal at the Champaign elementary school he attended as a student — South Side — will be in June, long after the kids have left for the summer. That's a good thing.

Bill Taylor's last day as principal at the Champaign elementary school he attended as a student — South Side — will be in June, long after the kids have left for the summer. That's a good thing.

Police know what weapon was used to kill the 66-year-old Champaign man. Still, 'it's a frustrating case.'

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Today is Sunday, May 19, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, 29-month-old J.W. Mackey won the best baby prize at the Monticello Baby Welfare Day conducted at the community's Red Cross rooms.
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