Urbana News

URBANA – Two free events are taking place this weekend at the Urbana Free Library.

URBANA – The former executive director of the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District has been indicted by a Champaign County grand jury on seven felony counts stemming from his behavior while in office in 2006 and 2007.

SAVOY – The new owner of the Carle Arbours continuing care center has renamed it the Champaign-Urbana Regional Rehab Center.

URBANA – AmerenIP officials will have an open house next week to address outage concerns for residents of southeast Urbana.

URBANA – A Paxton man who admitted setting fire to a vacant home when he was working as a volunteer firefighter has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.

URBANA – A Sidney man is due back in court in December after being charged Tuesday with breaking into one home in October and trying to get into a second home in July.

URBANA – Kim Shackelford has a hard time believing three years have passed since her parents were stabbed and bludgeoned to death in their Champaign home.

URBANA – If you're looking to eat healthy on a reduced budget, try mainly beans and grains and buy in bulk, advises Jacqueline Hannah, general manager of the Common Ground Food Co-op. A former cook, Hannah dispensed that advice during her monthly Eating Healthy on a Budget class in the Lincoln Square Village hallway behind the co-op.

URBANA – Champaign County Democrats don't have candidates for any of four countywide seats up for election next year, but they have three candidates for two seats in one county board district and four candidates for two spots in another.

URBANA – Road work this week will disrupt traffic on Race Street, Goodwin Avenue and Springfield Avenue in Urbana.

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Dan Graham: Beyond, a major retrospective surveying the career of one of contemporary art's most innovative figures, will be on view at the Walker Art Center October 31, 2009 - "January 24, 2010.

URBANA – If you are interested in warnings about tornadoes, floods, other severe weather, fires, hazardous materials spills and other emergencies in Champaign County, you can get them as e-mails, or as text messages on cell phones, through the Champaign County Emergency Management Agency.

CHAMPAIGN – Brilliant, dedicated, entertaining and eccentric: Friends say Gary Wright, regarded as one of the Champaign Police Department's most talented detectives, was all those and more.

URBANA – The man already convicted of murdering Jerry Haigh in his Champaign home three years ago told a jury hearing co-defendant Crystal Myrick's case that she took an active role in killing Sue Haigh.

URBANA – A Champaign man accused of forcing his way into an ex-girlfriend's home and beating her is due back in court Nov.

The Passive House movement started in Germany 15 years ago and recently spread to the United States Kevin Ireton European and Canadian window manufacturers offer products that meet the Passive House Standard.

A woman has been charged with the fatal stabbing of an Urbana man early Sunday on the South Side.

The Urbana City Council discussed reformation of the city's parking fines and implementation of new meters at its Monday meeting.

Champaign Urbana's Classic Rock 105.9 WGKC is sending you to see Lynyrd Skynyrd Live in Concert on Saturday November 7th at The US Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, IL.