We have a new No. 1 for the first time this season, but there are a handful of other teams definitely in the hunt ...

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There have been times since his brother’s passing while Thompsen has been competing in a race that he can almost hear him ...

In the fall of 2022, two Urbana High School freshmen approached biology teacher Jeff Birdsley with an idea: They wanted to ...

Faces of Spring photo shoot at the News-Gazette in Champaign on Sunday, February 23, 2025. Faces of Spring photo shoot at the ...

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In 1773, one unidentified official's disagreement with his boss, and his actions to inform Americans about it, played a big ...

Born and raised in Champaign, Taliah Abdullah was a student of the Unit 4 school system, studied at Parkland College and ...

The Trump administration is quietly revoking the temporary legal status of people who entered the country via an online appointment app at U.S. border crossings with Mexico. The cancellation of ...

A planned meeting between top U.S., British, French and Ukrainian diplomats to push for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine has been scrapped at the last minute amid little ...

The Vatican has opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with thousands of people filling the central aisle and Swiss Guards ...

His son, Micheal Cresap, is credited with helping to save Washington’s army at the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775.