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Former University of Illinois basketball coach Lou Henson is back in a Houston cancer center for tests. The 83-year-old who will be inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame this fall became dehydrated last week and spent a few days at Urbana's Carle Hospital.
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A series of House committees will meet; one hearing will focus on cuts Gov. Rauner says he's making to Community Care, a program that helps provide elderly and disabled individuals with home care help, to manage the budget during an impasse. The salaries Rauner is paying his top staff is the subject of another hearing. It comes after questions about Rauner paying aides he calls "super-stars" salaries above that of people in those positions under former Gov. Pat Quinn's administration.
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Nina Totenberg talks about what's at stake in the Supreme Court's three big cases, living in Urbana for a year, and how the Supreme Court has changed.
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Scientists at the University of Illinois are asking for help to document the bee population in the region.
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Jesse Jackson Jr. has returned to his Washington D.C. home after leaving a Baltimore halfway house Monday. The former congressman who went to prison for misspending campaign money still faces three years on supervised release, and 500 hours of community service.
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A legal expert on the Affordable Care Act and the CEO of medical plan provider Health Alliance discuss the impact on Illinois, if the US Supreme Court rules against subsidies for people receiving health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, in states that haven't set up their own health insurance exchanges.
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Illinois leaders aren't in agreement on a new state budget, even as the current one nears its July expiration date. Democrats passed their own version, but Governor Bruce Rauner can't act on most of it yet, even if he wants to.
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The sentencing of a former Illinois Department of Public Health aide convicted of bribery and theft has been postponed until Tuesday due to the lengthy number of character witnesses.
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It’s been two years since Champaign’s Parkland College agreed to take over the Institute of Aviation at Willard Airport. The University of Illinois had voted to close the flight school, and Parkland saw an opportunity to fill the void.
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One Monday morning last fall, some students and teachers at North Mac Middle School in Girard weren’t feeling well. The health teacher, Alan Love, who also happens to be a registered nurse, told superintendent Marica Cullen the school might have a gas leak.
