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CHAMPAIGN — The 50th reunion for the Class of 1969 of both Champaign Central and Centennial high schools will be held Aug. 9-10.
The Aug. 9 celebration will be held at Lincolnshire Fields Country Club with a buffet meal and cash bar and DJ Eddie Bane playing music from the 1960s.
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Darrion White, 19, was arrested Thursday evening on charges of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of David Sankey just before Labor Day weekend in northwest Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN — A Champaign man is in custody in connection with the August 2018 fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy in northwest Champaign.

The concert is  Oct. 28, with tickets going on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday.

CHAMPAIGN — Fans of a cappella group Straight No Chaser will get their chance to see them at the Virginia Theatre.
The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28, with tickets going on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday.

Visibility could be reduced to one quarter of a mile. So be sure to slow down, use your headlights and leave plenty of distance ahead of you when driving around the area.

The National Weather Service says a portion of East Central Illinois is under a dense fog advisory until 9 a.m. Thursday.
The advisory includes Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, and Vermilion counties.

Today is Thursday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2019. There are 243 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, then quickly buried at sea after a decade on the run.
On this date
In 1519, artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France, at age 67.
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Today is Thursday, May 2, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, Superintendent W. L. Hagen announced that Monticello High School had been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities.
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For the past decade, Foreigner has invited a local choir to join them in singing their 1984 hit 'I Want To Know What Love Is.' The promotion continues with the band's June 23 show at State Farm Center.

In hopes of spurring ticket sales for a Foreigner concert in Cleveland about a decade ago, the band decided to invite a local choir to join them in singing their 1984 hit "I Want To Know What Love Is."

Champaign plan commissioners on Tuesday recommended that the city council approve a proposal calling for 42 single-family homes and a new church building for Copper Creek in southwest Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN — From the YMCA to a state-of-the-art new facility, Copper Creek Church is one step closer to fulfilling its dreams of having a home of its own.

Police suspect Terry L. Gaines, 41, was shot during a robbery attempt, making him the 10th driver from five different restaurants to be robbed since March 2018.

DANVILLE — This week's fatal shooting of a pizza delivery driver marks a deadly turn in a long string of delivery-driver robberies in Danville.

The nonprofit, launched in 2017 by two local mothers, sends trained volunteers to homes of new mothers on a regular schedule over the critical first three months after a baby arrives.

CHAMPAIGN — After the birth of her youngest child, Heidi Gerber was experiencing the one-two punch most new moms know all too well — feeling a bit overwhelmed and more than a bit exhausted.