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The rare home loss by the Illini in Saturday's NCAA Super Regional has them on the brink of elimination Sunday night. Illinois made 3 errors, and starting pitcher Kevin Duchene was lifted after 4 innings. Sunday's game has been moved from 8 to 5 p.m. due to the weather, and Tyler Jay has been announced as the starting pitcher.
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The Smithsonian Channel series Aerial America has profiled all fifty United States, entirely from the air. Illinois will be the last state featured when its episode premieres on the Smithsonian Channel this Sunday night.
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The Illinois baseball team (50-8-1) plays its biggest series in program history this weekend, taking on defending national champs Vanderbilt in an NCAA Super Regional. Two beat reporters covering the Nashville school have a preview.
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The late Eugie Foster's short story "When It Ends, He Catches Her", was one of seven nominees this year for a Nebula Award in the short story category, losing out Saturday to "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon. Matthew Foster discusses his wife and her work, in an interview with Illinois Public Media's Jim Meadows.
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Exelon still has hopes for the legislation, once lawmakers are done dealing with the state budget. And whether or not it passes could have in impact on the price of electricity in Illinois, and the fate of its three nuclear plants in Clinton, Byron and Quad Cities, which are losing money.
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Illinois softball head coach Terri Sullivan has announced her retirement after 16 years with the program. Sullivan was the inaugural head coach of the program starting in 2000.
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Glenda Ritz formally announced her campaign Thursday at an event in Indianapolis. The state schools superintendent has clashed repeatedly with Republican Governor Mike Pence and his appointed State Board of Education over education policy.
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At 76 years old, U of I graduate Mary-Dell Chilton is still working. The genetically-modified corn, soybeans and other crops that her research helped develop now grow on more than 170 million acres of U.S. farmland. Earlier this month, Chilton’s groundbreaking discoveries earned her a place in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Gov. Bruce Rauner is asking heads of state agencies to prepare for state funds to run out if he and Democratic lawmakers can't reach a deal on a 2016 budget.
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Since February, forty-three shooting investigations have been opened in Champaign-Urbana, and three shootings in only the last two weeks in Rantoul.
