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Union Says Prison Inmate Assaults On Guards Up 51%
The labor union representing Illinois prison guards says assaults on staff are way up — and state officials aren’t doing enough about it.
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Task Force Searches For Solutions To Opioid Addiction
The governor’s new Opioid Prevention and Intervention Task Force made a stop in Urbana Thursday, to hear ways to curtail drug abuse in the state.
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Trump Uses Executive Pen To Chip Away At ‘Obamacare’
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that's intended to provide more options for people shopping for health insurance. The president invoked his power of the pen after repeated Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act have failed.
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In Small Towns, Planned Parenthood Fills A Need For Transgender Health Services
For people seeking transgender health services in Peoria, Illinois, chances are the first person they’ll talk to is Dana Garber. Garber is the transgender hormone intake coordinator at the Peoria Planned Parenthood, the only clinic in the area that offers hormone-replacement therapy for people seeking gender transition.
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Christensen Arraigned On New Charges In Yingying Zhang Disappearance
A public defender entered a “not guilty” plea Wednesday for Brendt Christensen, the 28-year-old man accused of kidnapping and killing Yingying Zhang. The brief arraignment hearing before Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long at the federal courthouse in Urbana came after an emotional outburst from Yingying’s mother.
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Groundbreaking Ceremony Held For New Carle-Christie Surgery Center at Curtis Rd Interchange
Doctors from both Carle and Christie Clinic will be treating patients at a new surgery center to be built near the I-57 Curtis Road interchange southwest of Champaign. Officials with both organizations held a ground breaking ceremony Wednesday morning for the facility.
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Unit 4 Releases Draft Plans For Central, Centennial Renovation And Expansion
Champaign Unit 4 School Board members got their first look Tuesday night at proposed renovation and expansion plans for Central and Centennial high schools.
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Complaints Surge About Weed Killer Dicamba’s Damage To Oak Trees
As soybean and cotton farmers across the Midwest and South continue to see their crops ravaged from the weed killer dicamba, new complaints have pointed to the herbicide as a factor in widespread damage to oak trees.
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Landmark Status Sought For Buildings Threatened By Champaign Central HS Expansion
Susan Appel, a board member with the Preservation and Conservation Association of Champaign County (PACA), talks about her group’s efforts to seek city landmark status for three buildings slated to be torn down for the expansion of Champaign Central High School.
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Snyder Named Health Alliance CEO
An Urbana-based health insurance organization has a new permanent CEO.