URBANA - Two men arrested by Urbana police for having cocaine and cannabis intended for sale are due back in court in July.
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 Memorials honor fallen police officers | Meg Dickinson, staff writer,
 Two services Thursday in Champaign and Urbana honored fallen police officers: one at West Side Park in Champaign, followed by another at the Champaign County Courthouse around 12:15 p.m. Another service was held in Danville, at Sunset Memorial Park. The services fell during National Police Week, which is May 13-19, and May 15 was National Peace Officers Memorial Day. Minimum-wage increase bill draws opposition |
SPRINGFIELD - Illinois' minimum wage, now the third-highest in the country, would gradually increase to $10.55 an hour and again become the highest in the United States under legislation approved by a Senate committee Wednesday. Urbana parks hit by vandals |
URBANA - Vandals have caused more than $1,500 in damage at two Urbana parks this spring, and the park district is appealing to those using the parks to report suspicious activity. 14-year-old wanted to teach nephew gun safety | Tim Mitchell, staff writer,
UPDATED 2:30 p.m. URBANA - An Urbana High School freshman who reportedly wanted to teach his toddler nephew a lesson on gun safety has been criminally charged with causing his death. Champaign County Judge Heidi Ladd ruled Thursday that it was a matter of immediate and urgent necessity that the boy be held in the Juvenile Detention Center until a hearing next week. Danville to add engineer for planned work | Tracy Moss, staff writer,
DANVILLE - Administrators are moving forward with plans to add another engineer to the city's current lineup of four full-time engineers and two engineering technicians. THQ touts Volition's 'Saints Row' | Don Dodson, staff writer,
CHAMPAIGN - Volition's parent company, THQ Inc., this week hailed "Saints Row" as the most successful video-game franchise to which it owns intellectual property rights. With UI treatment, dog defies odds of cancer | Debra Pressey, staff writer,
URBANA - There are few things more grim for a dog than prostate cancer. And when a little scrap of a dog named Bear was diagnosed with this disease in November 2010, nobody figured he'd live longer than six to nine months. But Bear just wasn't ready to go that soon. And his owners, Lisa and Tim Kappert of Mascoutah, have been all too willing to help him hang onto life. METCAD to raise fees to governments | Patrick Wade, staff writer,
URBANA - Having spent several years waiting on the state to save their budget, officials with the county's emergency dispatch center are looking down two paths to keep the lights on and the phones ringing when residents call 911. Forum to cover Clinton landfill permit request |
URBANA - Officials will convene a public forum on Thursday (May 17) to inform locals about a pending application for a landfill in Clinton to bury chemical waste at a site above the Mahomet Aquifer, the source of central Illinois' drinking water. The meeting is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the auditorium at the Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., U.
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