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Five former Northern Illinois University fraternity members have been sentenced to community service instead of prison, and will pay $1,000 fines in a hazing case involving the 2012 death of a pledge, 19-year-old David Bogenberger. 17 others who faced misdemeanor charges will perform community service and pay fines of $500 each.
ITV-3 held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to announce the debut of its residential and small buisness broadband service in Champaign-Urbana. Meanwhile, Comcast is also expanding its C-U broadband service.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the state's pension reform law violates a provision in the state constitution that bars pension benefits for employees of state and local governments and school districts from being "diminished or impaired"
Champaign officials say they expect to recover most of the more than half-million dollars it lost through an investment fund that is the subject of an investigation.
Last weekend at Garden Hills Elementary School, dozens of fourth and fifth graders showed off their work at their second annual science fair. It's the result of a partnership between Unit 4 and University of Illinois students and faculty who hope to change the way under-represented students view science, and themselves.
