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The crowd at Gordyville USA reached 750 on Tuesday — up 150 from the event's first year at the venue last spring.

GIFFORD — Tickets for Tuesday night's Kickin' Cancer Dinner & Auction were approaching sellout status in January, with fewer than 50 available.
The increased demand prompted the addition of more tickets for the Coaches vs. Cancer event at Gordyville.

Robert Jones and Catherine Murphy are among 200 people in the 2019 class of the academy, which ws founded in 1780 by John Adams and others who believed the new republic should honor exceptional individuals and engage them in promoting the public good.

Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said the death Saturday of Destyni Thomas, 21, of Urbana appears to be a tragic accident but remains under investigation by the his office and Champaign police.

CHAMPAIGN — A University of Illinois student died over the weekend after falling off the roof of a home in Campustown.

Urbana fire Chief Chuck Lauss said a fuel-oil tank in the basement of a business in the 800 block of South Sixth Street, Champaign, had leaked into a floor drain believed to tie in to the storm sewer.

CHAMPAIGN — Fire officials have determined that a leak in an old fuel-oil tank in the basement of a Campustown business was the source of a fuel spill into the Boneyard Creek.

Lawrence McMillion, 53, had pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver heroin. In exchange, prosecutors dropped a similar charge related to cocaine that was also found.

URBANA — A Champaign man has been sentenced to three years of probation after a search of his home two years ago turned up suspected heroin and cocaine in the ceiling.

The Coaches vs. Cancer event at Gordyville on Tuesday, April 16, 2019.

Superintendent Seth Miller tells N-G Media's Tracy Crane: 'The person left the building without incident but administration contacted local law enforcement to make them aware' and was taken into custody.

He compiled a 129-30 record in four seasons with the Sabers, including Class 2A state-championship and third-place plaques the last two years.

CHAMPAIGN — On the heels of a third-place finish in the Class 2A state tournament, St. Thomas More volleyball is looking for a new coach after Stan Bergman submitted his resignation and accepted the same position at Mahomet-Seymour.

Glen Torres Jr., 30, of Danville, faces eight counts of first-degree murder in the August 2015 deaths of Theodore 'Teddy' Hill and Zarra Strickland.

DANVILLE — Opening statements are scheduled this morning in the trial of a man accused of fatally shooting a Danville couple and dumping their bodies in a wooded area a few miles west of town about three-and-a-half years ago.

Judge Roger Webber sentenced Paul Meunier Sr., 64, to six years in prison Monday on each of the two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse he pleaded guilty to, with one sentence to be served after the other.

URBANA — A Ludlow man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison after pleading guilty for the second time to sexually abusing a child.