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.
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.
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.
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.
