Rantoul News

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 * Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan can't shake ties to corrupt player Stu Levine.

The chief of staff for a state social service agency has left her job after allegedly using her state-issued phone to harass another woman because the two had a relationship with the same man.

SPRINGFIELD – The chief of staff for a state social service agency has left her job after allegedly using her state-issued telephone to harass another woman because the two had a relationship with the same man.

A top official in a state social service agency is out of a job after allegedly using her state-issued telephone to harass another woman because the two were romantically involved with the same man.

URBANA – A Rantoul man was sentenced to the maximum prison sentence he could receive for selling drugs in Rantoul.

The bidding process is under way for a number of state-funded road and bridge improvement projects in east central Illinois, according to state Rep.

Children in four Rantoul elementary schools are scheduled to receive H1N1/swine flu vaccinations today, but plans to vaccinate kids at other Champaign County schools this week will depend on whether another shipment of vaccine arrives Wednesday, says Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Administrator Julie Pryde.

A lot of communities across Central Illinois have been getting more doses of the vaccine, while others are still waiting to get their clinics started.

URBANA – A Rantoul couple arrested Tuesday for having drugs for sale at their home were criminally charged in Champaign County Wednesday.

TOPICS ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos notes the passings of comedian Soupy Sales , former Wyoming governor and senator Clifford P. Hansen , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jack Nelson and TV theme songwriter Vic Mizzy .

More than fifty people set up flags stretching over a mile. They used them to mark the path welcoming home Sgt.

The Lovin' Spoonful combined rock and folk music to become one of the hottest groups of the 1960s.

Twenty-eight year-old Chris Rudzinski died after he was hit from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

The Defense Department says a central Illinois native has died while serving in the military in Afghanistan.

Every Halloween, zombies walk among the living. The Zombie Mob, a group of students from different resident halls that act like the undead on Halloween, will perform the dance from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video at various sites around campus Halloween night.

A group of friends run out of the Fear Factory in Rantoul, IL, after being chased by a monster with a chainsaw on October 26, 2008.

Mark Hardy, owner of Hardy's Reindeer Ranch in Rantoul, Illinois talks to members of "October Lovers" on October 10, 2009 about the alien-themed corn maze he created.

Aaron Aammons, left, co-founder of Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice, speaks during a press conference to discuss the death of 15-year-old Kiwane Carrington at the Independent Media Center in Urbana on Monday.

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Members of the Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice gathered outside the Champaign Municipal Building to participate in the sixth annual Unity March.