Luke Taylor

While band members are focusing on finals, band director Barry Houser is working out the logistics to get more than 400 people, eight charter coaches and a 126-foot equipment truck down to the Citrus Bowl.

Each week, courts-beat reporter Luke Taylor will assemble a bulletin of local criminal activity reported by C-U police.

Incident at a residence in 1100 block of Riverside Drive on Wednesday night

A Chicago man has been arrested following an investigation into the Dec. 9 homicide of a Champaign woman.

MAHOMET — The Wednesday night shooting that resulted in three people's deaths in a small Mahomet neighborhood was, in a word, “unimaginable” to the community.

After years of working side-by-side at Billy Bob's in Ogden, bartenders Kassi Ziegler and Nicole Pearson are a package deal.

MAHOMET — Minutes before she and two family members were fatally shot Wednesday night, a Mahomet woman described the man thought to be the killer in a social-media post.

In the near future, Illinois farms could be producing jet fuel — or at least crops that can be used as the basis for jet fuel.