Luke Taylor

A vaccine being offered in England to reduce gonorrhoea rates did not cut infections among gay and bisexual men at very high risk of the disease, a randomised controlled trial in Australia suggests.1Since August 2025 health authorities in England have offered the 4CMenB (Bexsero) vaccine to people at high risk of the disease. The new study’s findings are a blow for this, the world’s first national gonorrhoea vaccination programme.The Australian GoGoVax trial, the results of which are published in The New England Journal of Medicine , analysed 587 participants, with roughly half receiving the vaccine and half a placebo.It found no significant difference in the number of infections recorded in the two groups.The authors said the findings provided “strong evidence that the 4CMenB vaccine is not effective for gonorrhoea prevention” among men who have sex with men at high …

URBANA — A campus-wide alert says there is a fire at the University of Illinois Law Building.

This week, it's up to a jury to decide if a man accused of stabbing four individuals was trying to kill them, or if he acted in self defense.

A series of stabbing victims each testified in a trial Wednesday, sharing their accounts of the fight that led to all of their injuries.

ST. JOSEPH — The pilot of a crop dusting helicopter was seriously injured in a crash this evening.

Visit Urbana's Bunny's Tavern in the daytime hours, and odds are pretty good you'll find bartender MALEA MISENHEIMER chatting it up with the regulars.

A jury spent four hours in deliberation before returning the verdict, informing 18-year-old Samuel Garcia that he was not guilty of any of four counts of attempted murder.

Each week, News-Gazette courts reporter Luke Taylor will assemble a bulletin of recent criminal activity reported by area police agencies.

A man was injured when he accidentally discharged a firearm early this morning.

A man was injured when he accidentally discharged a firearm early this morning.