Danville News

Starting Tuesday, nurses with the Whitestar Home Health Agency are collecting donations that will soon be sent to the victims of this week's tragic tornado in Oklahoma.

Phillips will succeed Brenda Yoho, who will become the district's educational supports program director on July 1. Phillips will earn an annual salary of $84,000. An educator for almost 24 years, Phillips has been a Danville High assistant principal since 2006, and she became administrator of the Freshman House when that program was established in ... (more)

Aldermen eagerly supported Tuesday night pledging tax dollars toward a new McDonald's restaurant and the relocation of a local company, Steel Grip, but debated long and passionately over whether to spend money on building a two-block median on North Vermilion Street in downtown Danville.

Danville police are investigating two separate shootings overnight that left a 21-year-old female dead and sent three other people to the hospital.

The Danville school board will meet at 6:30 p.m on Wednesday at the Jackson Building, 516 N. Jackson St., Danville.

Some aldermen are not in favor of the city applying for up to $15 million in federal grant money to rebuild Jackson Street from Danville High School to Newell Street.

The diver of a semi-trailer truck has walked away without serious injury after his vehicle collided with a freight train in eastern Illinois.

Documents recorded in March at the Vermilion County recorder's office confirm that a local company, Steel Grip, does not already own the industrial property on East Voorhees where the company plans to relocate later this year and ultimately buy the site with financial assistance from the city of Danville.

Danville Area Community College officials will confer nearly 450 associate degrees and certificates, and nearly 200 graduates will participate in this year's commencement exercises.

This time last year, Urbana signed an electric aggregation contract with Homefield Energy to supply 100 percent renewable electricity to residents at a rate of 4.08 cents per kilowatt-hour. Following the same bidding process and using the same consultant, the city of Danville ended up Wednesday with a higher rate for its electric aggregation ... (more)

Aldermen agreed Tuesday night to return up to $250,000 in property-tax revenue to Steel Grip to help the local company and its 100 employees relocate to a new facility in Danville, rather than moving the operation to Indiana where it already has two other facilities.

Danville police and the Vermilion County coroner's office are investigating a collision on East Voorhees Street that killed a Danville man and injured an Indiana man early Monday afternoon.

After watching the images of young American troops fighting in South Vietnam on TV each night, Jack Crawley decided to join the U.S. Marine Corps so he could fight alongside them.

When Katherine Lee has visitors to her house, she closes the blinds in her dining room to hide the view of the dilapidated house next door.

It's for National Stamp Out Hunger Day. Mail carriers in Danville say there was a lot of participation around town.

Breakfast will be served from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the club, 850 N. Griffin St., Danville.

Vermilion County has extended for another year Apex Wind Energy's building permit for the proposed 43-turbine Hoopeston Wind Project west of Rossville.

In the last several years, the state has cut the amount it pays for salaries at juvenile detention centers around the state, including centers in Vermilion and Champaign counties.

Danville quarterback Trent Sherfield picked up an offer from Illinois over the weekend, but he says he is in no hurry to commit.

World War II, Korean and Vietnam veterans who left an Illinois high school before receiving a diploma are eligible to receive a diploma from their home high school.