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New Mexico State Rallies For 74-69 Win Over Illini Men
AJ Harris had the game-winning 3-point play, Zach Lofton scored 23 points and New Mexico State rallied late for a 74-69 win over Illinois after losing a 15-point lead.
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CHART: How The New Version Of The Republican Tax Bill Would Affect You
On Friday evening, congressional Republicans released the final version of their tax overhaul plan. Below are two charts showing how individual filers could be affected if this bill is passed and signed into law.
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Duckworth Talks Taxes, Spending, Quincy Veterans’ Home At Stop In Champaign
GOP leaders in Congress had not yet released the final version of their tax reform bill when Senator Tammy Duckworth made a stop in Champaign Friday. But the freshman Democrat said she didn’t see how Republicans would adjust the bill's main features that she opposes.
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60-year Prison Sentence For Man Convicted In 2016 Campustown Shooting
A 20-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 69 years in prison for the fatal shooting of a man at a party in Champaign’s Campustown area in 2016.
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Consumers Trust Organic Labels, But Fraud Threatens The Industry
The organic industry is trying to battle fraud, given that it could undermine consumers’ trust and burst its burgeoning $43 billion food market.
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13th Congressional District Democratic Candidates Oppose GOP Tax Plan
Five Democratic congressional candidates appeared before a packed auditorium at the Champaign Public Library Thursday night.
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Group Demands Stricter Gun Laws On Fifth Anniversary Of Sandy Hook School Shooting
The local chapter of the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America marked the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre with a vigil at the Champaign Public Library Thursday night.
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A Farmer City Native Is Featured In A Perennial Christmas Song
You’re going to hear a lot of Christmas songs between now and December 25th. And you may hear one that features a little boy asking Santa to replace his two central incisors, after losing them in a slide down the bannister. The vocalist that made that song famous was George Rock, a trumpeter hailing from the central Illinois town of Farmer City.
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FCC Repeals ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules For Internet Providers
After a brief security evacuation, U.S. telecom regulators have voted to repeal so-called net neutrality rules, which restrict the power of Internet service providers to influence loading speeds for specific websites or apps.
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Key Question For Democrats: To Billionaire, Or Not To Billionaire?
With roughly three months to go until Illinois' primary election, there are seven men seeking the Democratic Party's nomination to be governor of Illinois. One of the key questions facing primary voters: To counter the vast wealth of incumbent Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, do Democrats need their own billionaire at the top of the ticket?
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