URBANA – Ramshaw Real Estate will begin marketing for development a 156-acre tract at the southwest corner of Philo and Windsor roads in Urbana.

URBANA – The University of Illinois has launched a new budget Web site to give students and employees input on how to best use scarce university resources.

URBANA – Urbana High School students are presenting their 22nd annual children's play at UHS Cobb Auditorium.

URBANA – Anyone interested in how jurors are selected for service in Champaign County may want to attend a League of Women Voter's meeting in Urbana Thursday.

Illinois is mired in a deep employment recession that could linger for years unless the state unravels the roots of its nearly decade-long job slump, a new study by a University of Illinois economist warns.

URBANA – Retired Danville businessman Al Reynolds appears to have received enough write-in votes in Tuesday's primary to become the Republican nominee for the 52nd District state Senate seat.

URBANA – A Champaign man who admitted fatally shooting a man in Urbana last spring because that man had earlier shot him was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison.

URBANA – A Champaign teen is due back in court next month after being charged with punching an Urbana man in the face Friday.

URBANA – City council members in Urbana on Monday night approved an option to buy the site of the Goodyear Tire Center, 202 S. Vine St.

CHAMPAIGN – Artist Jason Patterson, who is biracial, says he has encountered in his life only two minor incidents of racism or prejudice.

URBANA – University of Illinois police are investigating an attempted robbery and battery early Sunday morning on campus.

URBANA – The Urbana school board will consider whether to issue $4.6 million in working cash bonds when it meets Tuesday night.

URBANA – There's no lack of differences among the three Democrats running for two open seats on the Champaign County Board from District 9, an area that includes south and east Urbana and some rural area southeast of the city.

URBANA – A Champaign man is due back in court in March after being charged with possession of a stolen vehicle.

SIDNEY – In the final special meeting before a referendum Tuesday, Sidney officials called in a representative of Champaign County Public Health to help them make the case for a new sanitary sewer system.

URBANA – A Champaign teen on probation for burglary has been charged with residential burglary.

URBANA – A University of Illinois engineering professor leaves for Haiti today to assess earthquake damage.

URBANA – An Urbana man alleged to have heroin for sale near a park and a school is being held in lieu of $350,000 bond.

URBANA – A Mahomet man accused of sexually assaulting an ex-girlfriend is due back in court March 2. Champaign County Judge John Kennedy on Wednesday ordered Robert Price's bond to continue at $500,000 following his arrest in Indiana on Tuesday.

URBANA – An Urbana man who burgled a home while armed with a weapon has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.