Mahomet News

On a day that seems more like the first blush of spring than winter, Roy Van Arsdall drills a 7/16-inch hole slantways in a sugar maple and fits a metal spout into the tree trunk.

Former state Sen. Rick Winkel of Urbana announced Wednesday that he is withdrawing from the race for Champaign County circuit court clerk.

A wrestling coach at Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School has been terminated after he allegedly smacked his players' genitals to motivate them.

A Champaign teen critically injured in a weekend crash that killed his friend told his mother he thought he was going to die.

A Tinley Park man whose vehicle ran out of gas was treated at an area hospital following a two-vehicle accident on Interstate 74 in Champaign on Tuesday afternoon.

The mother of an Urbana student has filed a lawsuit in Champaign County, saying the Urbana school board and two other officials failed to protect her daughter from bullies.

Classmates and relatives are coping with the loss of a 16-year old Mahomet teen.

A Mahomet teen died in a fiery crash north of the Lake of the Woods park in Mahomet Friday night.

Champaign County Board members Thursday agreed to spend up to $14,000 in county funds in a potential intergovernmental fight to keep PCBs out of a landfill in Clinton.

Republican members of the Champaign County Board will meet Thursday to select a new chair of their 11-member caucus.

Getting Personal is an email Q&A with a local personality. Here, News-Gazette staff writer Melissa Merli chats with Mahomet resident Julie Beyler, a music teacher with a studio in her home, a singer, a conductor by profession and the founding director of The Chorale.