Champaign News

Champaign County's unemployment rate fell to 6.5 percent in April, while Vermilion County's unemployment dropped to 8.9 percent, according to state figures released Thursday.

The councils is asking for donations of school and cleaning supplies. Items will be collected in boxes in the Champaign schools.

U.S. Army veteran Mat Jasieniecki poses in the veteran's lounge at the Illini Union on the University of Illinois campus May 10, 2013, in Urbana.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a cradle and app for the iPhone that uses the phone's built-in camera and processing power as a biosensor to detect toxins, proteins, bacteria, viruses and other molecules.

Firefighters were called to a minivan on fire at about 3 p.m. Thursday, according to Champaign fire engineer Chris Zaremba.

Earlier this week, Smart Growth America released an important study that illustrates how walkable development results in huge savings and significantly better returns for municipalities compared to car-centric development.

Tornado victims in Moore, OK, are getting help from donors in Central Illinois. Applebee's restaurants in Champaign and Savoy are accepting donations for the cause.

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Longtime television watchers - meaning those who remember when there were just four channels and programs were viewed in magnificent shades of black, white and gray - may remember Lyle "Skitch" Henderson.

More people will get federal assistance after April's historic flooding. Governor Quinn announced Wednesday that 14 counties will received Federal Disaster Aid.

A sex education measure that Republicans asserted was anti-local control and would promote birth control rather than abstinence-only cleared the Illinois Senate on a nearly party-line vote Wednesday.

Area residents will have an opportunity to safely dispose of their unwanted or expired medications 24 hours a day, seven days a week beginning Friday.

On Wednesday, Judge Heidi Ladd sentenced Xavier Hill, 24, who listed an address in Chicago, to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to felony criminal sexual abuse.

A pair of orphaned bobcat kittens is being cared for at the University of Illinois Wildlife Medical Center and they may have made a long trip to get there.

Dave and Elizabeth talk to Champaign City Council member Karen Foster about the new traffic light engineering project on North Prospect and more.

A Mansfield man who admitted stealing from his employer for years will have to pay more than $1 million in restitution and back taxes.

It did not take long for the University of Illinois Extension to find another building to rent for use as its new Onarga office.

Yeargin has a 90 rating and is ranked 399th on 247 Sports' Composite Rankings. Oct. 27, 2012; Champaign, IL, USA; Illinois Fighting Illini cheerleader waves the flag after an Illini touchdown during the first half against the Indiana Hoosiers at Memorial Stadium.

At least one Champaign City Council member shares concerns with his counterparts in Urbana about a prohibition on recently convicted felons driving taxi cabs in either city.

Two men who were involved in Champaign bank robberies last spring with a third man told different stories to a Champaign County jury Tuesday about that third man's involvement.