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In December, a Vermilion County jury convicted Dustin D. Cooper, 34, of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, a Class X felony, and possession of a controlled substance, a Class 1 felony.

DANVILLE — A 34-year-old Danville man is heading to prison for drug offenses he committed in 2016.

On Friday, a Vermilion County jury found Jahziel K. Shumpert, 19, guilty of home invasion causing injury, a Class X felony.

DANVILLE — A Danville man was convicted Friday in a 2017 home invasion in which he forced his way into a house, held the residents at gunpoint and injured both of them.

CHAMPAIGN — Champaign police are looking for the men who beat and robbed a man in his north Champaign home last week.
A police report said a 25-year-old resident of Tulip Tree Drive was forced inside his home at gunpoint about 10:50 p.m. June 12 by four unknown men who then beat him with fists and guns, robbed him and fled.
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Elizabeth Bidner, 47, group's former treasurer, also ordered to pay back what she took.

URBANA — A rural Mahomet woman who admitted she had a "spending problem" was convicted Tuesday for stealing thousands of dollars intended for Fisher Elementary School children and sentenced to four years of probation.

Day five of the trial of Brendt Christensen Tuesday, June 18, 2019.

A look at daily life in central Illinois through the lens of the News-Gazette photographers.

Illinois defensive end has 'long road in front of him,' after severe spinal injury, according to Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman

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CHAMPAIGN — The phone call was one Josh Whitman never wanted to receive.

None of the pedestrians was hit but one of the fired rounds went through the living room wall of an apartment occupied by five people ranging in age from 2 to 72.

URBANA — Urbana police are looking for a person who fired shots in east Urbana on Monday afternoon, one of which pierced an occupied apartment.

NEW: Charles Hill testified about his conversations with Christensen at the Macon County Jail in the summer of 2017.

UPDATE: Noon
FBI forensics expert Michael Maguire testified about his search of Christensen’s Astra and apartment, showing a picture using “alternative light source” of what appears to be handprints above Christensen’s bed.

Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2019. There are 196 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On June 18, 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
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